Calendar of Events April 1993
National Gallery of Art 7:00 Concert: The Howard University Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity: 12:30 Film: The New York School APRIL Chorale, Dr. Weldon Norris, Greeks in the Land of the Nile 2:30 Gallery Talk: Between Being Conductor, Easter Concert 6:00 Films: Signs of the Times: "Big and Nothingness: Anselm Kiefer's Ben and the Jesus Picture " and "That "Zim Zum " (EB) See bottom panels for introductory 14 WEDNESDAY Little Bit Different" and foreign language tours; see 12:00 Gallery Talk: History Made 7:00 Concert: The Fiftieth American 25 SUNDAY reverse side for complete film and Recorded: Painting in Eighteenth Music Festival, National Gallery 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape information. Century Britain (WB) Orchestra, George Marios, Conductor Image and Idea in Lorenzo Lotto's 12:30 Film: Money Man "Allegory" (WB) 1 THURSDAY 20 TUESDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Decorative 12:00 Gallery Talk: John Singleton 15 THURSDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: French Portraits: Arts: Medieval Treasures (WB) Cop ley's "Watson and the Shark" 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: People and Pets (EB) 4:00 Andrew W. Mellon Lecture: (WB)' Abstraction (EB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Handle with Care: The Diffusion of Classical Art in 12:30 Film: Important Information 12:30 Film: Money Man IJorking with Objects in the National Antiquity: The Arts ofEtruria Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea of 1:00 Gallery Talk: "The Swing" by Gallery (WB) 6:00 Film: The Godless Girl Still-Life Painting Jean-Honore Fragonard (WB) 7:00 Concert: The Fiftieth American 21 WEDNESDAY Music Festival, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, 2 FRIDAY 16 FRIDAY 10:15 Special Course: The World of soprano, Donald Sutherland, piano, 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Palazzo da 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: Rubens: Flemish Baroque Painting Rudy J rbsky, oboe Mala " by Claude Monet (WB) Portraiture (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Drawings from 12:30 Film: Important Information 12:30 Film: Mow>-Man the O'Neal Collection (EB) 27 TUESDAY Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea of Claude Monet, Palazzo da Mula, f'enice, 1908. National Gallery of Art. Chester Dale Collection 2:30 Gallery Talk: Betrveen Being 12:30 Film: The New York School 12:00 Gallery Talk: Drawings from Still-Life Painting and Nothingness: Anselm Kiefer's the O'Neal Collection (EB) 2:30 Gallery Talk: Between Being "Zim Zum " (EB) 22 THURSDAY and Nothingness: Anselm Kiefer's 6 TUESDAY 9 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallen- Talk: Introducing Art: 28 WEDNESDAY ''Zim Zurn" (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: John Singleton 12:00 Gallery Talk: Ilenri Matisse, Abstraction (EB) 10:15 Special Course: Picturing the Copley's "Watson and the Shark" 1 $69-195* (EB) 17 SATURDAY William M. 12:30 Film: The New York School World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch 3 SATURDAY (WB) 12:30 Films: Breaking and Entering; 10:00 Teacher Workshop: Harnett and Still-Life Painting 1:00 Gallery Talk: The Decorative Masters 12:00 Gallery Talk: John Singleton Man- Lucier; Dog Baseball (advance registration required) Arts: Medieval Treasures (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape- Copier's "Watson and the Shark" 7 WEDNESDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Drawings from Image and Idea in Lorenzo Lotto's (WB)" 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 10 SATURDAY the O'Neal Collection (EB) 23 FRIDAY "Allegory" (WB) 12:30 Film: Important Information Abstraction (EB) 12:30 Films: Breaking and Entering; 12:30 Film: Money Man 12:00 Gallery Talk: French Portraits: 12:30 Film: American Art in the Sixties Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea of 12:30 Films: Breaking and Entering; Man' Lucier; Dog Baseball 2:00 Films: Signs of the Times: People and Pets (EB) Still-Life Painting Mary Lucier; Dog Baseball "Marie-Louise Collects Bric-a-brac" 12:30 Film: The New York School 29 THURSDAY 2:00 Film: Montparnasse 19 1:00 Gallery Talk: Rethinking 11 SUNDAY and "Red Drives Me Nuts " 2:30 Gallery Talk: Movements, 12:30 Film: American Art in the Sixties 2:30 Gallery Talk: Movements, American Art: The Reinstallation of 12:00 Gallery Talk: John Singleton Manifestos, and Modernism (EB) Manifestos, and Modernism (EB) the American Galleries (WB) Copley's "Watson and the Shark" (WB)' 18 SUNDAY 30 FRIDAY Talk: Drawings from 24 SATURDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Drawings from 4 SUNDAY 8 THURSDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: History Made and 12:00 Gallery the O'Neal Collection (EB) 10:15 Special Course: The World of the O'Neal Collection (EB) 4:00 Andrew W. Mellon Lecture: 12:30 Films: Breaking and Entering; Recorded: Painting in Eighteenth 1:00 Film: Money Man Rubens: Flemish Baroque Painting 12:30 Film: American Art in the The Diffusion of Classical Art in Mary Lucier; Dog Baseball Century Britain (WB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: "The Swing" by 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape- Sixties Antiquity: The East After Alexander 6:00 Lecture: The Meaning of 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Buildings as Jean-Honore Fragonard (WB) Image and Idea in Lorenzo Lotto's 2:30 Gallery Talk: Movements, the Great Wilderness and the Rights of Nature Historic Documents and How to Read 4:00 Andrew W. Mellon Lecture: The "Allegory" (WB) Manifestos, and Modernism (EB) 7:00 Concert: Ralph Votapek. piano Them
GALEERY TAEKS Special Exhibitions INTRODUCTORY TOURS SUNDAY LECTURES SUNDAY CONCERTS
Tours and lectures are given by John Singleton Copley's "Watson and Introduction to the West Building Lectures given by distinguished Concerts take place at 7:00 every National Gallery staff and education the Shark" (30 minutes). Wilford W. Collection visiting scholars at 4:00 in the East Sunday evening through June 27, division lecturers. Scott, lecturer. April 1, 3, 6, 11 at Monday-Saturday 10:30, 12:30, and Building Auditorium. 7993, in the West Garden Court of the Tours of the permanent collection and noon (WB). 2:30 West Building. Admission to the APRIL 11 special exhibitions are available with a Collection Sunday 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 National Gallery and its concerts is Drawings from the O'Neal Buildings as Historic Documents sign-language interpreter for groups of West Building Rotunda always free. Concertgoers are admitted (50 minutes). J. Russell Sale, lecturer. and How to Read Them five or more and may be scheduled 30 at noon (EB). to the West Garden Court on a first- April 17, 18, 21, 27, Introduction to the East Building Robin Thornes with four weeks notice. For adult come, first-served basis beginning at Introducing Art Collection Royal Commission on the Historical groups, please call (202) 842-6247: 6:00. Concertgoers arriving after that Monday-Saturday 11:30 and 1:30 Monuments of England Abstraction (60 minutes). Robin time may enter only at the 6th Street for school groups call (202) 842-6249 Sunday 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 I home Ptacek. lecturer. April 7. 15. 1993 ANDREW W. MELLON and Constitution Avenue entrance to or write to: Education Division. Tour East Building, Art Information Desk Scheduling, National Gallery of Art. 22 at noon (EB). LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS the West Building. Concerts are broad FOREIGN EANGUAGE TOURS March 28 through May 9 on a one-month delayed basis Washington. D.C. 20565. Include the Portraiture (60 minutes). Eric Denker. cast The Diffusion of Classical Art in every Sunday evening at 7:00 on radio type of tour you are requesting, two lecturer. April 16 at noon (WB). Foreign language tours of the alternative dates and times, the number Jean-Honore Kragonard. 'I'hc ^iriup. probabl Antiquity station WGTS 91.9-FM. For further c. 1765. National Gallery of Art. Samuel II. permanent collection are offered on and an Curators, Conservators, and Other John Boardman information, call (202) 842-6941. in your group., a contact person, Kress Collection Tuesdays. Tours of the West Building Specialists The University of Oxford address. You will be notified in writing are at noon and begin in the Rotunda APRIL 4 of the status of your request. Rethinking American Art: The of the West Building. Tours of the East APRIL 4 Ralph Votapek, piano Unless otherwise noted, talks begin History Made and Recorded: Painting Reinstallation of the American Building are at 2:00 and begin at the The East after Alexander the Great Works bv Beethoven, Chopin, and in either the Rotunda of the West Franklin in Eighteenth-Century Britain (50 Galleries (60 minutes). Art Information Desk of the East APRIL 18 Charles Griffes Building (WB) or at the Ground Floor Kelly, curator of American and British minutes). Wilford W. Scott, lecturer. Building. Greeks in the Land of the Nile APRIL 11 Art Information Desk of the East painting. April 7 at 1:00 (WB). April 11 at 2:00, April 14 at noon April 6: French The Howard University Chorale Building (EB). APRIL 25 (WB). with Handle with Care: Working April 13: Spanish The Arts ofEtruria Dr. Weldon Norris, Conductor Focuft: The Permanent Collection "The Swing" by Jean-Honore Objects in the National Gallery (60 April 20: German & Spanish Easter Concert minutes). John Poliszuk, art services MAY 2 "Palazzo da Mula " by Claude Monet Fragonard (Samuel H. Kress April 27: Italian The Fiftieth American Music Festival, specialist, April 20 at 1:00 (W7B). The Semitic World (Chester Dale Collection) (20 minutes). Collection) (20 minutes). J. Russell Spanish tours are repeated regularly the nation's longest-running festival of 15 at 1:00. April MAY 9 Eric Denker, lecturer. April 2, noon (WB). Sale, lecturer. April on the third Tuesday of every month. music by American composers, begins 18 at 2:00 (WB). Europe arid Rome Between Being and Nothingness: Meet in the East Building at 12:00 and on April 18 and continues through Anselm Kiefer's "Zim Zum" (Gift of the French Portraits: People and Pets (50 West Building at. 2:00. May 9. Collectors Committee) (45 minutes). minutes). Martha Richler Wise, guest APRIL 18 Clarence B. Sheffield. Jr., graduate lecturer. April 20, 23 at noon (EB) Special Course The Fiftieth American Music Festival lecturing fellow. April 2, 16, 24 at The Decorative Arts: Medieval National Gallery Orchestra and Flemish Painting in assistant curator, northern baroque APRIL 28 AND MAY 1 2:30 (EB). Treasures (45 minutes). Frances Dutch George Manos, Conductor painting, 10:15 a.m., East Building Picturing the World: Seventeenth- Feldman, lecturer. April 22 at 1:00, the Golden Age Movements, Manifestos, and Auditorium. The May 1 lecture begins Century Dutch Masters APRIL 25 April 25 at 2:00 (WB). Modernism (45 minutes). Anne Series of slide talks related to the at 11:00 a.m. (May 1 lecture begins at 11:00 a.m. The Fiftieth American Music Festival Helmreich. graduate lecturing fellow. Landscape Image and Idea in permanent collection given on Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano MAY 5 AND 8 AprilS, 23, 30 at 2:30 (EB). Lorenzo Lotto's "Allegory" (Samuel H. Wednesdays and repeated Saturdays. APRIL 21 AND 24 Donald Sutherland, piano Admission is free but seating is The World of Rubens: Flemish Rembrandt van Rijri: Myth and Henri Matisse, 1869-1954 (45 min Kress Collection) (20 minutes). Rudy Vrbsky, oboe limited. Dennis P. Weller, Mellon Baroque Painting Reality Ives, Ronald Perera, utes). Frances Feldman, lecturer. April Frances Feldman, lecturer. April 24, Works by Charles 9 at noon (EB). 25, 28, May 4, 7 at noon (WB). and Gunther Schuller National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Film Programs Helen Frankenthaler: William M. Harnett Teacher Workshop East Building Auditorium Prints through June 13, 1993 William M. Harnett and Montparnasse 19, the classic film by- April 18 through East Building, Mezzanine Still- Life Pa in ting French director Jacques Becker on September 6, 1993 The first comprehensive exhibition of Saturday, April 17 the life of Modigliani, will be shown East Building, Upper Level the still lifes of William M. Harriett 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 3 in a newly restored since the artist's death in 1892 reintro- The National Gallery of Art's first This workshop examines the history print. During the week of April 12, duces the work of this leader of the show by the widely acclaimed con of still-life painting including works Money Man, a new film on trompe American school of trompe Toeil temporary American artist Helen by William M. Harnett and his con 1'oeil artist J. S. G. Boggs and his (fool-the-eye) painting. Flarnett's sub Frankenthaler features more than temporaries. The program includes a meticulous currency replicas, will jects painted to mimic reality include seventy-five prints and related slide lecture, discussion of classroom be shown Wednesday through objects of everyday life such as books, drawings from 1961, the year she applications, and use of a teaching Sunday. Signs of the Times, a musical instruments, currency, and recent BBC documentary series on first experimented with printmaking, packet available on a loan basis. bric-a-brac. Forty-eight of his most William M. Harriett, The Faithful Colt through 1992. Credited with playing Open to teachers in all disciplines personal taste in the British home, important paintings will be presented. (detail), 1890, Wadsworth Atheneum. a pivotal role in the transition from Stunner and and grade levels for a nominal fee. will be shown the weekend of April Born in Ireland and brought to (lonnecticutt. The Ella Callup abstract expressionism to color-field Mary Catliri Sunnier Collection Advance registration is required: 17 and 18. Consisting of four one- Philadelphia as a child, Harnett painting, Frankenthaler is among the call (202) 842-6796. hour programs, the series, which began his career as an engraver of late masterpieces as The Old Violin vanguard of painters and sculptors became a cause celebre when it was silver. He went on to become the (1886), and represent all aspects of who inspired a new enthusiasm for broadcast in England last winter, most important and influential still- his endeavor. All four versions of the contemporary printmaking. Her presents interviews with a wide range life artist in America in the last famous After the Hunt will be distinctive prints relate closely to her of Britons about the decoration of quarter of the nineteenth century. included, the first time this group has Recorded Tours their houses as well as questions on paintings on paper and large-scale Although Harnett's paintings brought ever been shown together. The Audio tours are S3.50 ($3.00 for what constitutes taste, good and bad. canvases; thus the exhibition high prices during his life, his National Gallery is the final stop of senior citizens, students, and groups BBC producer Nicholas Barker will Signs of the Ti illustrates the power and visual reputation languished after his death the exhibition, which was organized of ten or more). Special headsets introduce the series on both days. diversity7 of her rich abstractions. until his rediscovery in the 1930s. by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. and/or scripts are available for On Sunday, April 25, in association Breaking and Entering (Margot the Jesus Picture" and "That Little Fraiikenthaler began her print Works in the show span Harnett s New York, the Ainon Garter Museum, visitors who are hard-of-hearing. with the Washington D.C. Inter Stair Kernan, 1988, video. 10 minutes): Bit Different" (mC. 1992, 120 explorations in lithography, a career, from the early Wooden Basket Fort Worth, and The Fine Arts To reserve recorded tours for national Film Festival, a special Man-Lacier (Art New York. 1992. 28 minutes, introduced by Nicholas method that usually begins with a ofCataivba Grapes (1877) to such Museums of San Francisco. groups, call (202) 842-6592. presentation of Cecil B. DeMille's minutes): Dog Baseball (William Barker), April 18 at 6:00. drawing on limestone. This The God/ess Girl (1929) will be Wegman, 1987, video, 4 minutes). The New York School (Michael remained her primary print medium Permanent Collection followed by discussion with the star April 7 through 10 at 12:30. Blackwood, 1973, 55 minutes), April until 1968 when she moved to the Drawings from the O'Neal Collection The Directors Tour, narrated by Earl of the film, actress Lina Basquette. Money Man (Philip Haas. 1992. 21 through 24 at 12:30. aquatint process, creating fields of through August 15, 1993 A. Powell III, discusses fifteenth- B. luminous color by etching copper through early twentieth-century Important Information Inside: John 60 minutes), April 14 through 17 at The Godless Girl (Cecil East Building. Ground Floor with plates with acid. Her first woodcut masterpieces and includes some of F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life 12:30. April 18 at 1:00. DeMille, 1929. 118 minutes, Lina Basquette in person). April 25 dates from 1973. Along with edition the Gallery's best-loved paintings. Painting (National Gallery of Art, Signs of the Times: "Marie-Louise at 6:00. impressions in all of these media, the 1983. 28 minutes), April 1 through 3 Collects Bric-a-brac" and "'Red American Art, narrated by Nicolai Sixties (Michael exhibition will include prints made at 12:30. Drives Me Nuts" (BBC. 1992. 120 American Art in the Cikovsky, Jr., curator of American April by pochoir., a stencil process, and Montparnasse 19 (Jacques Becker. minutes, introduced by Nicholas Blackwood, 1973, 57 minutes), and British painting, features works vivid monotypes, some of which 1957, 120 minutes), April 3 at 2:00. Barker). April 17 at 2:00. 28 through 30 at 12:30. by Copley. Stuart. Cole. Homer, Signs of the Times: "Big Ben arid feature densely worked sculptural Eakins. Whistler. Bellows, and other surfaces. Also on view will be a Special Program Among the topics discussed will be masters from the Gallery s collection Advance Passes selection of unique color proofs, as the artist's experiences working at Special Evening Author of the widely read Wilderness of American painting. The Gallery will institute a pass well as drawings. Conversations with Artists, IX: several print workshops, including and the American Mind, he has These tapes may be rented in the Lecture system for the exhibition Great Organized by the National Gallery, Helen Frankenthaler Universal Eimited Art Editions and spoken and written extensively on Rotunda on the main floor of the French Paintings from The Barnes the show will travel to the San Diego Tyler Graphics Ltd.; relationships The Meaning of Wilderness nature and environmental ethics. Sunday, May 16. 4:00 West Building. Foundation: Impressionist, Post Museum of Arts, October 2- between Frankenthaler's prints and This lecture, which is being spon East Building Auditorium and the Rights of Nature Impressionist, and Early Modern, December 5. 1993: the Museum of paintings; and her very personal sored jointly with the Eibrary of Roderick Nash which will be on view at the Fine Arts, Boston. January 5-March In celebration of the exhibition Helen approach to traditional print media. Congress, will tie together Nash's Thursday, April 8, 6:00 p.m. Gallery from May 2 through 13, 1994: and the Contemporary Arts Frankenthaler: Prints, the National Admission is by free pass only. For abiding knowledge and love of the Exhibition Catalogues East Building Auditorium August 15, 1993. Advance passes Center. Cincinnati, April 8-June 17. Gallery will hold the ninth in a series information on pass availability, call American wilderness with the history may be obtained free of charge 1994. Publication of the catalogue has of "Conversations with Artists. 11 (202) 842-6690. Professor of history and chairman of of cultural and aesthetic ideas. The William M. Harnett beginning April 4 at the Gallery s been generously supported by The the department of environmental lecture is presented in conjunction $29.95 East Building. Passes may also be Circle of the National Gallerv of Art. studies at the University of Califor with the publication later in April of Fifty-eight old master and modern Architectural and theatrical obtained at all Ticketmaster Drawings from the O'Neal Collection nia, Santa Barbara, Roderick Nash is the Gallery s self-guided tour bro drawings were chosen to celebrate designs, among O'Neal s strongest locations and Hecht Co. stores for S25.00 one of the foremost authorities on the chure on landscape paintings in the Georges de La Tour's the gift and promised gift to the collecting interests, are one of the a service charge of $2.00 per pass. environment in the United States. permanent collection National Gallery of the distinctive show's highlights. Also featured are Helen Frankenthaler: Prints Through Ticketmaster Phone- "Repentant collection of William B. 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Mauro Tesi. George tations of nature in nineteen works ten on an interactive exploration of (202) 432-SEAT Celebrating the 400th anniversary of to the twentieth centuries. Romnev. and Thomas Rowlandson. by European and American artists seven famous portraits including the birth of Georges de La Tour, this over the last five centuries. The David's painting Napoleon in His Baltimore. MD focus exhibition features the National brochure is made possible in part by Study and two marble busts of (410) 481-SEAT CLOSING EXHIBITION Gallery's newly restored Repentant a gift from Lee and Juliet Folger/The Voltaire by Houdon. Available at the Nationwide Toll-Free Magdalene (c. 1640) and another ver Folger Fund. Available after April 22 West Building Main Floor Art (800) 551-SEAT first large-scale history painting that sion by La Tour on the same theme John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark in the West Building Main Floor. Art Information Room. Copley created abroad. Commis For more information on passes, from the Los Angeles County Museum Information Room and at the East through April 11, 1993 sioned by Brook Wratson, a wealthy Shapes