APRIL Anniversary Gifts 17 WEDNESDAY 21 SUNDAY 12:30 Film: The National Gallery's 12:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction 12:00 Gallery Talk: Degas Waxes Early Years on Film to Art: The Artist's Choices 1:00 Film: Welcome to the Water See bottom panels for introductory 1:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape into Art 12:30 Film: Welcome to the Water Planet and foreign language tours; see 2:00 Film: The Strawberry Blonde; Planet 4:00 Mellon Lecture: Silver Tribute reverse side for complete film Angels with Dirty Faces 1:00 Gallery Talk: Lever No. 3 by from a Prince to a Grand Duke: The information 2:30 Gallery Talk: The American Martin Puryear 'Piatti di San Giovanni' Family Portrait, 1776-1876 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 6:00 Film: The Goldwyn Follies John Constable. Yarmouth Jetty, 1822. 7:00 Concert: George Shearing, piano, David Smith, Untitled (I irgitt Islands}, 1933, Promised Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson iti Gift of Candida and Rebecca Smith in Honor 7 SUNDAY I lonor of the 50th Anniversary of the National 18 THURSDAY with Joe Williams and Joe Pass; Jazz of the 50th Anniversary of the National 1 MONDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape Into Gallery of Art 10:15 Survey Course: American Art: Concert Gallery of Art 12:00 Gallery Talk: Bianca Maria Art The 18th Century and Early 19th Sforza by Ambrogio de Predis 1:00 Film: The National Gallery's 12 FRIDAY Century 22 MONDAY Early Years on Film 12:30 Film: The Home Show 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape into 1:00 Earth Day Lecture: Artist and 12:30 Film: James Stirling 2 TUESDAY 6:00 Film: Kitty Foyle 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration Art Landscape: Evolution of an Idea 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 1:00 Gallery Talk: Selected Works 4:00 Mellon Lecture: What? Why? 12:30 Film: Welcome to the Water from the Exhibition of 50th How? Who? 13 SATURDAY Planet 23 TUESDAY 27 SATURDAY Anniversary Gifts 7:00 Concert: National Gallery 10:15 Survey Course: The Nineteenth 1:00 Gallery Talk: The Building of 12:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction 10:15 Survey Course: American Art: Orchestra, George Manos, conductor Century: Post-Impressionism America's National Gallery to Art: The Artist's Choices The 19th Century 3 WEDNESDAY 11:00 Gallery Talk: The Building of 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 12:30 Film: James Stirling 12:30 Film: The National Gallery's 9 TUESDAY America's National Gallery 24 WEDNESDAY 2:00 Film: The Philadelphia Story Early Years on Film 1:00 Gallery Talk: The Building of 12:30 Film: The Home Show 19 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Degas Waxes 2:30 Gallery Talk: Landscape in 19th- 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration America's National Gallery 1:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction to 12:30 Film: Welcome to the Water 12:30 Film: James Stirling century England: Turner and Art: The Artist's Choices Planet 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration Constable 4 THURSDAY 10 WEDNESDAY 2:00 Film: The Great MeGinty; The 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 10:15 Survey Course: The Nineteenth 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape into Lady Ere 25 THURSDAY 28 SUNDAY Century: Realism and Impressionism Art 2:30 Gallery Talk: The American 20 SATURDAY 10:15 Survey Course: American Art: 1:00 Film: James Stirling 12:30 Film: The National Gallery's 12:30 Film: The Home Show FamiJ) Portrait, 1776-1S 76 10:15 Survey Course: American Art: The 19th Century 4:00 Mellon Lecture: Bronze in the Early Years on Film 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration The 18th Century and Early 19th 12:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction Service of the Church: Santa Maria 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 14 SUNDAY Century to Art: The Artist's Choices Maggiore from Sixtus V to Benedict 11 THURSDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction to 11:00 Gallery Talk: Lever No. 3 by 12:30 Film: James Stirling XIV 5 FRIDAY 10:15 Survey Course: The Nineteenth Art: The Artist's Choices Martin Puryear 1:00 Gallery Talk: Lever No. 3 by 6:00 Film: Here Comes Mr. Jordan; 12:00 Galler> Talk: Bianca Maria Century: Post-Impression ism 1:00 Film: The Home Show 12:30 Film: Welcome to the Water Martin Puryear Adventures in Washington Sforza by Ambrogio de Predis 12:30 Film: The Home Show 4:00 Mellon Lecture: The Adoration of Planet 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration 7:00 Concert: An die Musik. Piano 12:30 Film: The National Gallery's 1:00 Gallery Talk: Selected fforks the Host: Tabernacles of the High 1:00 Gallery Talk: Degas Waxes 2:30 Gallery Talk: Landscape in Quintet Earl)- Years on Film from the Exhibition of 50th Baroque 2:00 Film: The Young Mr. Lincoln: 19th-century England: Turner and 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration Anniversary Gifts 6:00 Film: Blossoms in the Dust: Dr. Man Hunt Constable 29 MONDAY 2:00 Film: Voices in Celebration Kildare 's Crisis 2:30 Gallery Talk: The American 12:00 Gallery Talk: An Introduction to 6 SATURDAY 2:30 Gallery Talk: Landscape in 19th- 7:00 Concert: James Tocco, piano Family Portrait, 1776- 1S76 26 FRIDAY Art: The Artist's Choices 10:15 Survey Course: The Nineteenth century England: Turner and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape into Century: Realism and Impressionism Constable 16 TUESDAY Art 30 TUESDAY 11:00 Gallery Talk: Selected Works 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape into 12:00 Gallery Talk: Degas Waxes from the Exhibition of 50th Art 1:00 Lecture: Louis XIV's Versailles

GALLERY TALKS SURVEY COURSE IN INTRODUCTORY TOURS SUNDAY LECTURES SUNDAY CONCERTS ART HISTORY

Tours oj varying length given by Introduction to the Jl' est Building Free lectures at 4:00 in the Large Free concerts by the National Gallery Education Department lecturers and The Education Department continues Collection Auditorium on the Concourse Level of Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. Graduate Lecturing Fellows a survey course on the history of Monday through Friday 1:30 and the East Building Entry to all concerts is by free pass Western art. This series of lectures 3:00; Saturday 3:00; Sunday 1:00 only. A limited number of passes may Bianca Maria Sforza by Ambrogio de examines the development of painting, West Building Rotunda Andrew W. Mellon Lecture Series be obtained in the main floor Art Predis (Widener Collection) (20 sculpture, and architecture from the The 1990 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures Information Room of the West Building minutes). Frances Feldman, Lecturer. ancient world to the twentieth century. Introduction to the East Building in the Fine Arts will be given by on the Friday and Saturday preceding Meet in the West Building Rotunda, The lectures, given by Margaret O'Neil Collections Jennifer Montagu, Curator of the each concert and throughout the day Ldouard Alanet, / he tlalloou. \tid'Z. Promised on Sundays, until all passes have been April 1. 5 at 12:00 noon. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in Honor of of the education staff, are being held Monday through Friday 11:30: Photograph Collection, University of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery in the East Building Auditorium at Saturday 11:00; Sunday 2:00 London, The Warburg Institute. given out. Unreserved seats are Selected Works from the Exhibition of of An 10:15 Thursday and Saturday East Building. Art Information Desk Entitled Gold, Silver, and Bronze: available from 6:00 p.m. 50th Anniversary Gifts (50 minutes). mornings. This free program is open Metal Sculpture of the Roman Frances Feldman, Lecturer. Meet at to the public but seating is limited. Baroque, the series of six lectures The West Building closes at 6:00 p.m. the East Building Art Information An Introduction to Art: The Artist's begins April 7 and continues through on Sundays, but the entrance and Desk. April 2. 11. at 1:00. April 6 at Choices (60 minutes). Eric Denker. April -i. 6 May 12. checkroom at Sixth Street and 11:00. Lecturer. Meet in the West Building The Nineteenth Century: Realism arid Constitution Avenue will remain open Rotunda, April 13 at 1:00. April 14. Impressionism APRIL 7 for concert-goers who arrive after 6:00 Landscape into Art (60 minutes). 17, 23, 25, 29 at 12:00 noon. What? Why? How? Who? p.m. All concerts are broadcast live by April 11. 13 Frances Feldman, Lecturer. Meet in WGMS, 103.5FM. The Nineteenth Century: Post- APRIL 14 the West Building Rotunda, April 6 at Lever No. 3 by Martin Puryear Imp ressio n ism The Adoration oj the Host: 1:00, April 7. 10, 16. 18, 26 at 12:00 (15 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, The Forty-eighth American Tabernacles of the High Baroque noon. Lecturer. Meet at the East Building April 18, 20 Music Festival Art Information Desk, April 17, 25 at American Art: The Eighteenth Century APRIL 21 APRIL? The American Family Portrait, 1776- 1:00, April 20 at 11:00. and Early Nineteenth Century Silver Tribute from a Prince to a National Gallery Orchestra, George 1876 (45 minutes). Leo Mazow, Jacques-Louis David, Portrait ofThirius de Grand Duke: The 'Piatti di San Manos, conductor April 25, 27 Graduate Lecturing Fellow. Meet in Degas Waxes (50 minutes). Wilford Pautrizel, c. 1795, Gift of Walter H. and Giovanni' Works by Copland, Gershwin, and American Art: The Nineteenth Century Lenore Aimeriberg in Honor of the 50th Robert Ward the West Building Rotunda, April 6, W. Scott, Lecturer. Meet at the East Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art APRIL 28 13. 20 at 2-30. Building Art Information Desk, April May 2, 4 Bronze in the Service of the Church: APRIL 14 20 at LOO, April 21, 24, 30 at 12:00 Art before World War II (Part I) FOREIGN EANGUAGE TOURS Santa Maria Maggiore from Sixtus V James Tucco, piano The Building of America, 's National noon. May 9, 11 Foreign language tours of the to Benedict XIV Works by Copland, Bernstein, and Gallery (50 minutes). Eric Denker, Art before World War II (Part II) permanent collection are offered on Corigliano Building- and Landscape: Evolution of art Lecturer. Meet in the West Artist Tuesdays. Tours of the West Building MAY 5 April 13 (60 mimites). Frances Feldman. May 16, 18 APRIL 21 Rotunda, April 9, 18 at LOO, Idea are at noon and begin in the Rotunda Giardini and Giardoni: Silversmiths Lecturer. East Building Auditorium, Art after World War II George Shearing, with Joe Williams at 11:00. of the West Building. Tours of the East and Founders of the Eighteenth Lecture in Honor of Earth Day, 1991, and Joe Pass Building are at 2:00 and begin at the Century Landscape in 19th-Ceiilitry England: 22 at 1:00. Jazz concert April Art Information Desk of the East Turner and Constable (45 minutes). MAY 12 Building. APRIL 28 Paula Warrick, Graduate Lecturing LouisXIV's Versailles (45 minutes). From Rome to Lisbon: The Patronage An die Musik, Piano Quintet Fellow. Meet in the West Building Philip L. Leonard, Lecturer. East April 2: French; April 9: Spanish; of King John V Works by Lee Hoiby, Jerzy Rotunda. April 11. 25. 2T at 2:30. Building Auditorium, April 30 at 1:00. April 16: German; April 23: Italian Sapieyewski, and Irving Fine National Gallery of Art CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Volunteer Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints Announcement of the National Gallery of Art Through May 26, 1991 West Building, Ground Floor In September, the Lducation East Building, Ground Floor, Mezzanine, and Upper Level Division will begin new classes for Through June 16, 1991 several volunteer programs. Volun­ teers are needed to give tours to The National Gallery of Art cele­ adult groups or to school classes. brates its 50th Anniversary this Other volunteers are needed to month with several activities, answer visitors' questions at the Art including this exhibition featuring Information Desks or to assist in the over 330 works of art committed to Gallery's Library. Application dead­ the Gallery by more than 150 line is May 20, 1991. For informa­ private donors throughout America tion or an application, please call: and Europe. The gifts of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, illus­ Adult Programs: (202) 842-6247 trated books, and photographs are Teacher and School Programs: installed in five sections representing (202) 842-6256 old master, nineteenth-century, Art Information: (202) 842-6180 twentieth century, and contemporary Library: (202) 842-6510 periods, as well as a special instal­ lation of original wax sculpture by Film Programs Edgar Degas. The show will also include gifts purchased with funds East Building Auditorium donated by the National Gallery 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, During the first two weeks of April in der Rolie are among those featured. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges, whose members include individuals, conjunction with the 50th The series is presented in conjunction 1940, 83 minutes) and The Lady foundations, and corporations from Vincent van Gogh, Roses, 1890, Gift (Partial and Promised) of W. Averell Harriman anu Anniversary of the National Gallery, with the exhibition John Russell Pope Ere (Preston Sturges. 1941, 97 across the country. The exhibition is Pamela C. Harrirnan in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art a program of archival films and and the Building of the National minutes): April 13 at 2:00. supported by a grant from GTE newsreels from the 1940s arid 1950s Gallery of Art. Corporation. The National Gallery s holdings Samuel H. Kress. Rush H. Kress, presents rare early glimpses of the Blossoms in the Dust (Mervyn have grown through donations over Joseph E. Widener, Chester Dale. museum, its staff, exhibitions, and I oices in Celebration (Aviva Slesin LeRoy. 1941. 99 minutes) and Dr. the years of masterpieces of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Lessing J. LEFT: Barthel Beham. Judith with the Head of I lolofernes. 1525/1527. National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection; RIGHT: Hans Sebald Beharn. Lucrelia Standing, c. l5-tl/15-t5. National events. Voices in Celebration^ an for the National Gallery of Art. 1991. Kildare's Crisis (Harold S. Bucquet, European paintings, drawings, Rosenwald. and Paul Mellon into Gallerv of Art. Rosenwald Collection hour-long film providing a behind- 60 minutes), April 3-5 at 2:00: 1940. 75 minutes); April 14 at 6:00. sculpture, prints, and illustrated one of the major national collections the-scenes look at the National April 10-12 at 2:00: April 17-19 at books from Andrew W. Mellon and of the world. This exhibition of 152 woodcuts, the Virgin and Eve. Included in the curator of old master prints. A fully Gallery of Art, its operation and 2:00: April 24-26 at 2:00. Welcome to the Hater Planet (Seth the other Founding Benefactors metalcuts, engravings, and etchings selection are Durer's The Birth of the illustrated exhibition catalogue activities, will be shown throughout Schneidinan and Maryte examines the many ways in which Virgin from The Life of the Virgin produced by the Gallery includes the month. The film, directed by The National Gallery's Early Years Kavaliauskas. 1990, 30 minutes: the women were represented in prints of series and Rembrandt's Adam and essays by Russell and Bernadine A viva Slesin. is a tribute not only to on Film (a compilation of early creation of a series of large-scale the fifteenth through seventeenth Eve. Barries, assistant professor of art the National Gallery, but to all newsreels, film, and television from works on paper by artist James centuries. The works were made by a The curator of Eva/Ave: Woman in history. Wake Forest University. The museums, providing the viewer with the Gallery's formative years Rosenquist and master printer Keri John Russell Pope and the Building of the wide range of artists including Durer. Renaissance and Baroque Prints is National Gallery is the sole venue for an understanding of how museums including Washington: City with a Tyler): April 17 through 20 at National Gallery of Art Rembrandt. Callot. and Barocci. The H. Diane Russell. National Gallerv the exhibition. work. Plan, produced in 1950 for the 12:30. April 21 at 1:00. prints are arranged in several major Starting April 6 and continuing National Capital Sesquicentennial Through July 7, 1991 thematic sections, including the through June, also in association Commission: approximately 65 The Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford. West Building. Central Gallerv and West Building Lecture Hall Virgin and Saints, the Worthies. Eve. minutes): April 3 through 6 at 1939, 103 minutes) and Man Hunt Venus, Fortune, and Lovers. The 12:30, April 7 at 1:00. (Fritz Lang, 1941. 98 minutes); In honor of its 50th Anniversary, the juxtaposition of the prints in the CLOSING EXHIBITION April 20 at 2:00. National Gallery of Art takes a look exhibition gives them new vibrancy, The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul at its history and origins in John while it conveys the widely held The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from Walsh, 1941, 97 minutes) and The Goldwyn Follies Russell (George Pope and the Building of the Renaissance view that women had The Corning Museum Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Marshall. 1938, 115 minutes); April National Caller)- of Art. The exhi­ two conflicting natures: good and Curtiz, 1938, 97 minutes): 21 at 6:00. bition includes original drawings, evil, qumtessentially expressed by Extended through April 14, 1991 introduced by Douglas Gomery, construction photographs, and East Building, Ground Floor April 6 at 2:00. James Stirling (Michael Blackwood, archival materials relating to the 1986. 58 minutes); April 24 through West Building at the time, one of This survey of the artistic history of cagework of clear glass found in Kitty Foyle (Sam Wood. 1940, 108 27 at 12:30. April 28 at 1:00. the largest marble buildings in the glass includes 121 exquisite pieces Cologne in 1866; arid a "Hedwig" minutes): April 7 at 6:00. world which was dedicated on Twentieth-Century drawn from the most comprehensive beaker, one of fourteen extant Here Conies Mr. Jordan, 194:1, directed by The Philadelphia Story (George March 17, 1941. The exhibition also Art collection of glass in the world at The eleventh or twelfth-century Egyptian Alexander Hall, to be shown April 28 (The The Home Shoir (a kinescope of an Cukor, 1940, 112 minutes): April 27 includes an audiovisual program on Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, drinking vessels with carved figural Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) early magazine of the air. with hosts at 2:00. the career of West Building architect Through April 30, 1991 New York. The exhibition spans decoration associated with Saint Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs Current Exhibition John Russell Pope, who was instru­ Concourse, Upper Level, and nearly thirty-five centuries of Hedwig, the patron saint of Silesia. with the 50th Anniversary, a new- visiting the National Gallery of Art in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Catalogues mental in the development of monu­ Tower constantly evolving glassmaking Corning staff members Dwight P. weekend series focuses on American April of 1955, 54 minutes); April 10 Hall, 1941. 93 minutes) and mental Washington and involved in undertaking and crowning glory. technology and stylistic trends, from Lanrnon, director and curator of films of the major Hollywood studios through 13 at 12:30, April 14 at Adventure in Washington (Alfred E. Twentieth-Century Painting and art museums elsewhere. The Gal­ The exhibition is supported by a A series of 25 galleries has been ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, European glass; David Whitehouse, from 1937 to 1941 films that both 1:00. Green, 1941, 84 minutes); April 28 Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth lery's original 522,500-square-foot grant from The American Society designed and built to accommodate a and Asian cultures, through con­ curator of ancient and Islamic glass: reflected and affected American at 6:00. Anniversary of the East Building finely crafted building of pink Ten­ of Neuroradiology. greatly expanded reinstallation of the temporary American and European Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of society during the period of the $19.95 nessee marble was the architect's last twentieth-century collection, examples. Some of the glass objects American glass; and Susanne K. Gallery's founding. Most of the films A Profile of the East Building complemented by loans from private emulate hard stones such as rock Fraiitz, curator of twentieth-century in the series are from the collections $15.00 collections. Among the works crystal, onyx, or agate, while others glass, made the selection. A revised of the Library of Gongress, the presented are Family of Saltim- are delicately diamond-engraved and and enlarged edition of Robert J. UCLA Film and Television Archive, Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of banques by Picasso, Lavender Mist transparent glass. Famous pieces Charleston's Masterpieces of Glass and Turner Lntertainment Co. The the 50th Anniversary of the National by Jackson Pollock, and The include the "Disch Kantharos," a has been published in conjunction films, therefore, reflect the efforts of Gallery of Art Stations of the Cross bv Barnett fourth-century stemmed cup sur­ writh the exhibition. these organizations to preserve the $45.00 Newman. rounded by an elaborate open cinema of this era. Historian Douglas Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Some of the twentieth-century Gomery of the University of Baroque Prints Concourse galleries will be closed Maryland, who will introduce the S24.95 due to the installation of the exhi­ opening film, assisted in the bition, Rauschenberg Overseas organization of the series. The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from Culture Interchange, which will be Documentary films on architects The Corning Museum on display May 12 through Sep­ noted for their contributions to the $25.00 tember 2, 1991. design of twentieth-century museums Two publications have been will be shown in an eight-part series Available from the National Gallery produced by the National Gallery in beginning the week of April 22. Publications Service conjunction with the installation Sales James Stirling, Philip Johnson, The Lady Eve, 1941, directed by Preston Sturges, to be shown April 13 (The Museum of Information (202) 842-6466 which is made possible by a grant Richard Meier, arid Ludwig Mies van Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) Mail Orders (301) 322-5900 National Gallery of Art under const. from American Express Company. Series). 1988. 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: Emil Nolde, & «M (detail), c. 1930/1940, Gift of Margaret Mellon Hitchcock in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallerv of Art