National Gallery of Art

Washington, B.C. 20565

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Calendar of Events May 1984

Tours and Paintings Introductory Films Sunday Sunday of the Week Tours Lectures Concerts MONDAY, April 30 Changing Images of Introduction to the East Antelami, the Baptistery Fourteenth-Century 41st American through Women in Modern Art Building's Collection of Parma (17 min.) and Altarpieces for the Music Festival SUNDAY, Tues. through Sat. 1:00 Mon. through Sat. 11:00 The Birth of European Sienese Cathedral Sun. 2:30 Sun. 1:00 Painting (26 min.) The Manchester String May 6 East Building East Building Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Speaker: Quartet Ground Floor Lobby Ground Floor Lobby Sun. 1:00 Hendrik W. van Os Mark Tobey (20 min.) Professor of Art History West Building Rembrandt van Ryn Introduction to the West and Mark Tobey Abroad The National University East Garden Court 7:00 A Polish Nobleman Building's Collection (30 min.), introduced Groningen (Andrew W. Mellon Mon. through Sat. 3:00 by the filmmaker The Netherlands Collection) Sun. 5:00 Robert Gardner Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building Sat. 12:30 Sunday 4:00 & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda Le Testament d 'Orphee West Building East Building (by , 1959, Gallery 48 Auditorium 83 min.) Sat. 2:30 East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, May? American Pop Art Introduction to the East Cathedral, City, School Two Sides of Window 41st American through Tues. through Sat. 1:00 Building's Collection (medieval art and Homer: Public Hope and Music Festival SUNDAY, Sun. 2:30 Mon. through Sat. 11:00 architecture, 52 min.) Private Despair East Building Sun. 1:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Musikanten May 13 Ground Floor Lobby East Building Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Kerry Krebill, Director Ground Floor Lobby Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. Beauvais Tapestry Les Parents Terribles Curator of American Art West Building After Frangois Boucher Introduction to the West (by Jean Cocteau, 1949, National Gallery of Art East Garden Court 7:00 The Dream ofRinaldo Building's Collection unsubtitled, 86 min.) (Widener Collection) Mon. through Sat. 3:00 Sat. 2:30 Sunday 4:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Sun. 5:00 & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 West Building East Building East Building West Building Rotunda Auditorium Auditorium Ground Floor North 14C

MONDAY, May 14 Mark Rothko: Works Introduction to the East Mark Tobey (20 min.) Conservation of 41st American through on Paper Building's Collection and Mark Tobey Abroad Museum Collections Music Festival SUNDAY, Tues. through Sat. 1:00 Mon. through Sat. 11:00 (30 min.) May 20 Sun. 2:30 Sun. 1:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Speaker: National Gallery Orchestra East Building East Building Sun. 1:00 Ross M. Merrill Richard Bales, Conductor Ground Floor Lobby Ground Floor Lobby Chief of Conservation National Gallery of Art William Montgomery, Jean-Mathieu Chevallier Introduction to the West (by Jean Cocteau and Flute Soloist Commode with Chinese Building's Collection Jean-Pierre Melville, Sunday 4:00 Motifs Mon. through Sat. 3:00 1950, 106 min.), West Building (Widener Collection) Sun. 5:00 introduced by East Building East Garden Court 7:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building Madeleine Cottenet-Hage Auditorium & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda Sat. 2:30 West Building Ground Floor North 14B East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, May 21 Mark Tobey Introduction to the East View from the Edge Claude Monet: Painting, 41st American through Tues. through Sat. 1:00 Building's Collection (history of Progress, and Patriotism Music Festival SUNDAY, Sun. 2:30 Mon. through Sat. 11:00 expressionism, from May 27 East Building Sun. 1:00 series Shock of the Speaker: National Gallery Orchestra Ground Floor Lobby East Building New, 52 min.) Paul Hayes Tucker Richard Bales, Conductor Ground Floor Lobby Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Professor of Art History French School Sun. 1:00 University of West Building (after Bernini) Introduction to the West Massachusetts East Garden Court 7:00 Louis XIV Building's Collection L 'Eternel Retour Boston (Samuel H. Kress Mon. through Sat. 3:00 (by Jean Cocteau and Collection) Sun. 5:00 Jean Delannoy, 1943, Sunday 4:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building 100 min.) & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda Sat. 2:30 East Building West Building Auditorium West Sculpture Hall East Building Auditorium Gallery Hours: The Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Sunday National Gallery of Art hours remain the same throughout the year: 12 noon to 9 p.m. Washington, D.C. 20565 Films in the East Building Auditorium The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The The retrospective of films by the noted East and West Buildings are connected by an The telephone number for general information French poet, dramatist, and artist Jean all-weather underground passage with a is (202) 737-4215. Cocteau continues on consecutive Saturdays moving walkway. Entrances to the West through June 2. Included are films which Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Cocteau directed or wrote, as well as Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has adaptations of his plays by other filmmakers. a ramp for the handicapped, and off 4th Dr. Madeleine Cottenet-Hage of the Street. The entrance to the East Building is University of Maryland's French department on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza and will introduce the program on May 19. also has a ramp for the handicapped. On May 5, Robert Gardner, Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, will introduce his two Free tours on any subject appropriate to the films on Mark Tobey. Gallery's collections or exhibitions may be See reverse side for further details. arranged for groups of fifteen or more people by booking at least two weeks in advance. Exhibitions May 1984 Call (202) 842-6246. Opening This Month

Mark Rothko: Works on Paper May 6-August 5, 1984 Mezzanine Level reflect a depressed emotional state which East Building resulted in the artist's suicide. The catalogue also contains an essay by Dore Ashton, noted Eighty-six works, dating from the late 1920s art historian and Rothko expert. through 1970, the year of Rothko's death, The exhibition has been coorganized by The represent the first comprehensive survey of American Federation of Arts and The Mark this major American artist's works on paper. Rothko Foundation, under the curatorial Highlights include the generally unknown direction of Ms. Clearwater, Foundation paintings on paper of the late sixties. In Curator. It is made possible by a generous contrast to Rothko's well-known paintings in grant from Warner Communications Inc. somber hues of brown, black, and gray, these last pictures continued to radiate with the The Tour of the Week for May 14-May 20 will high-keyed pigments of the fifties. be devoted to this exhibition; see reverse side for details. In her accompanying catalogue, curator Bonnie Clearwater of The Mark Rothko Foundation reevaluates the prevailing view ROTHKO. Unfitted paper that the late works on canvas and The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1982

Also on view are several related works from Early German Drawings the collection of the British Museum, and a from a Private Collection number of drawings from the National Gallery collection. Because of the extreme rarity of May 27-July 8, 1984 early German drawings in this country, the Ground Floor Galleries exhibition is a most unusual opportunity for West Building Americans to see a survey of the draftsmen of The drawings selected for this exhibition the period. The catalogue was written by John include examples by early German masters Rowlands, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at such as Albrecht Diirer, Hans Baldung Grien, the British Museum, where this exhibition was Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, on view from February 9-April 29, 1984. The and Hans Burgkmair, as well as important but selection and additions for the National lesser-known artists such as Hans Weiditz, Gallery showing were made by Andrew Jorg Breu, Ludwig Refinger, and Tobias Robison, Curator of Prints and Drawings and Stimmer. The collection ranges in date from Senior Curator at the Gallery. The exhibition an extraordinary Christ Carrying the Cross will subsequently be seen at the Germanisches by a Viennese master of c.1410 through HANS BALDUNG GRIEN Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (August 2- The Virgin on the Crescent Moon drawings of the eighteenth century. September 23, 1984). Private collection

Continuing Exhibitions

The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries Through September 3, 1984 Concourse Level East Building

Mark Tobey: City Paintings Through June 17, 1984 Ground Level East Building

JOSEF HOFFMANN. Three-panel Screen Art Gallery and Museums and TOBEY. Electric Night the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Seattle Art Museum, Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Closing Exhibitions

Correggio and His Legacy: 16th-Century Emilian Drawings Through May 13, 1984 Ground Floor Galleries West Building

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection Through May 6, 1984 Ground Floor Galleries West Building

TIEPOLO. Head of a Young Man NICOLO DELL'ABATE. Saint Paul lan Woodner Collection Cabinet des dessins, Musee du Louvre, Paris