National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS December 1988 National Gallery of Art

Special Course: The Arts of Family Programs under Daimyo Rule Enjoy a film on "The Christmas Story," then East Building Auditorium discover Christmas symbols in paintings showing Jesus' The four-part lecture course introducing birth. Families with children ages 6 to 12 are asked Japanese art in the age of the daimyo con­ to meet Saturdays in the West Building Lecture Hall at 10:00 tinues in December. The lectures will be a.m. on December 3, n, and 18. given by Mark H. Sandier, Assistant This free program lasts an hour and Professor, Department of Art History, a half; children must be accompanied by an adult. Please University of Maryland, College Park. call (202) 842-6249 for reservations. Symbols and Settings: The Roles of Painting in Daimyo Culture Wednesday, November 30, 12:30 Glorious Trappings: Arms, Armor, and Gallery Talks Dress of Feudal Japan West Building, Rotunda Monday, December 12, 12:30 Sally Shelburne, Graduate Lecturing Fellow Serious Play: The Aesthetics of in the Education Department, will discuss Leisure Pursuits "Van Dyck's English Portraits" on Saturday, Wednesday, December^, 12:30 December 3 and Wednesday, December 21 at 2:00 p.m. She will discuss "New Themes and New Feelings: The Late Paintings of Film Programs Veronese" on Wednesday, December 14 at / 2:00 P.M. East Building Auditorium Gregor Kalas, Graduate Lecturing Fellow in the Education Department, will discuss "Jidai-geki: Images of the Daimyo Age in "Some Michelangelo Drawings Used as In­ Japanese Cinema" continues during struction on the Poetic Ideal" on Wednesday, December with Tadashi Imai's Night Drum December 7 at2:00 p.m. He will discuss (1958); 's Throne of Blood "Nicolas Poussin's Concept of Religious (1957) and Hidden Fortress (1958); Kihachi History" on Saturday, December 10 and Okamoto's Samurai Assassin (1965). On Saturday, December:/ at2:oop.M. Saturday, December 3, Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince will introduce a special screening of Seven Samurai (1954). A documentary series on the arts Current Exhibition Catalogues associated with the daimyo period includes films on swordmaking, the tea ceremony, Raphaelle Peale S till Lifes $14. oo No drama, literature, and architecture. Japan: The Shaping of - . - Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 $27.50 The Pastoral Landscape: Survey Course on Western Art The Legacy of Venice $19.95 The Education Department continues the Michelangelo Draftsman $16.95 survey course on the history of Western art. Michelangelo Architect $16.95 This fourteen-part series examines the development of painting and sculpture from A Dictionary of the ancient world to the twentieth century. Michelangelo's Wa termarks $5-95 This month's lecture on High Renaissance The Art ofPaolo Veronese $19.95 and mannerism will be held in the East Building Auditorium at 10:15 on December 12. Available from the National Gallery Publication Service Sales Information (202) 842-6466 Mail Orders (202) 842-6465

INTRODUCTORY TOURS

Introduction to the Recorded Tour of West Building West Building Collections A recorded tour of the West Building Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. collections, narrated by J. Carter Brown, is Sunday 5:30 p.m. available at the Ground Floor Sales Area. West Building, Rotunda

Introduction to the Foreign Language Tours East Building Collections Regularly scheduled foreign language tours Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays Saturday ii:oo a.m. at noon beginning in the Rotunda. The Sunday 12:30 p.m. December schedule is as follows: East Building, Ground Floor Lobby December 6 French December 13 Spanish December 20 German December 27 Italian Monday, November 28 Monday, December 5 Monday, December 12 Monday, December 19 through through through through Sunday, December 4 Sunday, December 11 Sunday, December 18 Sunday, December 25

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS November 29-December 4 December 6-December 11 December 13-December 18 December 20-December 24

Brief gallery talks given by Education Follower of Michelangelo Peter Vischer the Younger Edouard Manet Andrea Delia Robbia Department lecturers on a single work of Apollo and Marsyas Orpheus and Eurydice The Tragic Actor The Adoration of the Child art. Reproductions of the work discussed (Samuel H. Kress Collection) (Samuel H. Kress Collection) (Rouviere as Hamlet) (Samuel H. Kress Collection) West Building, Gallery West may be purchased in the Gallery's sales 18 Building (Gift of Edith West Building, Gallery 15 Ground Floor North 9 Stuyvesant Gerry) shops; a written text is available without John Cogswell, Lecturer West Building, charge. Gallery 82 Eric Denker, Lecturer Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. William J. Williams, (National Gallery will be Sunday 2:00 p.m. Lecturer closed Christmas Day, Dec. 25)

SPECIAL TOURS November 29-December 4 December 6-December 11 December 13-December 18 December 19-December 23

One-hour thematic tours given by Japan: The Shaping of Michelangelo: The Christmas Story Italian Renaissance Drawing Education Department lecturers. Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 Draftsman/'Archi tect in Art West Building, Rotunda East Building West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. Ground Floor Lobby Russell Sale, Lecturer Sunday 2:30 p.m. Margaret O'Neil, Lecturer Donna Mann, Lecturer Marilyn Brockway, Lecturer (Tour offered Monday through Friday only)

(National Gallery will be closed Christmas Day, Dec. 25)

FILMS November 29-December 4 December 6-December 11 December 13-December 18 December 20-December 24

Free films on art and feature films related Crafts ofEdo (}apan The Japanese Sword as tr-e Colored Nabeshima Ware No Drama (Sakura Motion to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are Foundation, 1979, 30 min.) Soul of the Samurai (Sakura Motion Pictures, Pictures, 1965, 30 min.) available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tues., Thurs., Fri. 12:30 (Kensharo Productions, 1970, 1973, 30 min.) and andMatsukaze (excerpt, Sun. 1:00 24 min.) and The Way of Tea Lacquerware in Tohoku 8 min.) East Building Auditorium (TBS Films, 14 min.) (Tohoku Film Productions, Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Daimyo (National Gallery Tues., Thurs., Fri. 12:30 1986, 30 min.) of Art, 1988, 30 min.) Sunday 1:00 Tues., Thurs., Fri. 12:30 Daimyo (National Gallery Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Sun. 1:00 of Art, 1988, 30 min.) Sat. 12:30 Daimyo (National Gallery Tues. through Thurs. 2:00 of Art, 1988, 30 min.) Daimyo (National Gallery Sat. 12:30 Night Drum (Tadashi Imai, Tues. through Fri. 2:00 of Art, 1988, 30 min.) 1958, subtitled, 95 min.) Sat. 12:30 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Fri. 3:00; Sun. 6:00 subtitled, 161 min.) Throne of Blood (Akira Samurai Assassin (Kihachi Fri. 2:00; Sat. 2:00 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1957, Okamoto, 1965, subtitled, Kurosawa, 1954, subtitled, subtitled, 105 min.) 124 min.) 208 min. ; introduction) Fri. 3:00; Sat. 2:00 Fri. 3:00; Sun. 6:00 Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, Sat. 2:00 1957, to be shown December 9 and 10 Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi (Akira Kurosawa, 1958, Inagaki, 1954-1955, subtitled, 139 min.) subtitled, 300 min.) Sun. 6:00 Sat. 12:30

SUNDAY LECTURES December 4 December 11 December 18 December 25

Free lectures given by distinguished visiting The Tenth Anniversary "Blest with Genius": Boccioni and the Cult No Sunday Lecture scholars. No reservations needed but of the East Building The Still Lifes of Virility seating is limited. ofRaphaelle Peale (The National Gallery will J. Carter Brown Virginia Spate be closed Christmas Day, Sunday 4:00 p.m. Director Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. Director Dec. 25) East Building Auditorium National Gallery of Art Curator of American Art The Power Institute of National Gallery of Art Fine Arts, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SUNDAY CONCERTS December 4 December 11 December 18 December 25

Free concerts by the National Gallery Sanford Sylvan, Baritone Lawrence Schubert, Piano National Gallery No Sunday Concert Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. David Breitman, Piano Orchestra and the Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Works by Mozart, Maryland Camerata (National Gallery will be Songs by Wolf, Barber, Beethoven, and Liszt All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS closed Christmas Day, and Faure Christmas Concert; Dec. 570 AM and 103.5 FM. excerpts 25) fromj. S. Bach: The Sunday 7:00p.m. Christmas Oratorio, George West Building, West Garden Court Manos, Conductor, and Christmas carols OPENING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Twentieth-Century Art: Japan: The Shaping Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 of the East Building Through January 23, 1989 December 13, 1988-December 31, 1990 East Building East Building Mezzanine and Upper Level Concourse, Upper Level, and Tower More than 500 works of art from Japanese 1988 marks the tenth anniversary of the East collections, including an unprecedented Building of the National Gallery of Art. To number of loans designated as National celebrate this anniversary, a new series of 23 Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, galleries have been designed and built to and Important Art Objects, represent the accommodate a greatly expanded reinstal- great Daimyo families' contribution to lation of the twentieth-century collections, Japan's artistic heritage from the middle ages complemented by a number of major loans to the mid-nineteenth century. The Daimyo from private collections. The upper level (translated "great names" and pronounced shows art from the beginning of the century "Dye-me-o") were powerful members of the to World War II, with groupings of works by warrior class and served the shoguns or Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Brancusi, and military rulers of Japan. Included in the Gorky, among others. Fourteen figurative exhibition are portrait paintings, painted sculptures by David Smith are displayed in screens and sliding door panels, calligraphy, the skylit space of the tower gallery. Postwar swords, lacquer, ceramics, domestic textiles, European and American art can be seen on No masks, musical instruments and robes, the concourse level. Special galleries are installation of David Smith sculpture and tea utensils. Every four weeks, some devoted to Barnett Newman's Stations of the in East Building Tower objects, owing to their sensitivity to light, Cross, Matisse's paper cutouts, and classic will be taken off exhibition and replaced paintings by Mark Rothko. Other galleries with other works of the same general type. display concentrations of works by The exhibition will be closed all day on Giacometti and Dubuff et, the New York November 28 as a result. School abstract expressionists, as well as year history of exhibitions, and feature Organized by the National Gallery, several contemporary masters: Diebenkorn, essays by National Gallery director J. Carter Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and The Kelly, Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Brown and critic Benjamin Forgey. The Japan Foundation, the exhibition is made Lichtenstein. second book, by National Gallery assistant possible by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Two publications will be produced by the curator of twentieth-century art Jeremy Company, The Yomiuri Shimbun, The National Gallery in conjunction with the Strick, will document major acquisitions and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., and an indem­ Tosei Gusoku, Iatei6th century, Sendai City Museum, exhibition. One book, made possible by The gifts of modern art to the National Gallery nity from the Federal Council on the Arts Miyagi Prefecture Charles E. Smith Companies and The Artery since 1978. This book, as well as the and the Humanities. Organization, will profile the architecture of exhibition, is made possible by a grant from In conjunction with the exhibition, the East Building and highlights of its ten- American Express Company. several educational events are planned to enhance the public's understanding of the Daimyo period (for schedules of related films and lectures, see below). An authentic CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Japanese tea house and garden have been Pass Information constructed in the East Building. Visitors will have an opportunity to participate in a Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture tea ceremony performed by Japanese tea 1185-1868. Passes for the Daimyo exhibition masters. The Art of the Tea Ceremony is are distributed as necessary on a first-come, made possible by The Asahi Shimbun, the first-served basis. Passes are for specified Yabunouchi School of Tea, The Nomura entry times on the half-hour. Advance Securities Co., Ltd., and All Nippon reservations may be made at the special pass Airways. For further information, please call desk on the Ground Floor of the East 842-3472. Building. A new half-hour film produced by the Passes acquired in person at the National National Gallery, Daimyo, is being shown in Gallery are free of charge. Passes may also be the East Building Small Auditorium, Mon­ obtained at all TicketCenter outlets or by day through Saturday, hourly beginning at calling TicketCenter: 11:00 with the final showing at 4:00; Washington (202) 432-0200 Sundays, hourly from 1:00 to 6:00. Support Baltimore (301) 381-6000 for this film has been provided by Richmond (804) 780-3777 Tobishima Corporation. Seating will be on a Nationwide Toll Free (800) 448-9009 first-come, first-served basis, with no (for out-of-state calls) reservations required. There is a TicketCenter service charge for passes ordered through outlets ($1.50) or by phone ($2.00). Advance passes are not avail­ able by phone or mail from the National Gallery.

Raphaelle Peale, Still Life with Watermelon, 1822, The Art of the Tea Ceremony. A limited Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes Berry-Hill Galleries, New York number of same-day passes will be available Through January 29, 1989 at the Gallery's East Building each weekday East Building, Ground Floor and Saturday morning for the duration of the exhibition. A 30-minute tea ceremony will This is the first exhibition devoted solely to Geranium by Rembrandt Peale. After its be given at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thurs­ the still lifes of the nineteenth-century Washington debut the exhibition will travel days, and Saturdays and at noon every day American artist Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Monday through Saturday. Same-day passes Thirty-two of his most important paintings Arts, February 16-April 16, 1989. The exhi­ will be available at the pass desk each are on view, including After the Bath, one of bition, organized by the National Gallery of Sunday of the exhibition for 15- minute tea the masterpieces of illusionism. The works Art and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Tsuba with crab, i6th century, National Museum demonstrations beginning at3:00 p.m., 3:30 of Raphaelle Peale, through painstaking Fine Arts, is made possible by The Pew p.m., and4:oo p.m. detail of brushwork, bring to life the other­ Charitable Trusts. Additional funds to wise ordinary nature of his subject matter. support its presentation at the National Recorded Tour. An introductory tour of the An auxiliary group of paintings by other Gallery have been provided by The Circle of exhibition in English or Japanese, narrated members of the Peale family includes the the National Gallery of Art. by guest curator Yoshiaki Shimizu, may be National Gallery's Rubens Peale with a rented. CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CLOSING EXHIBITIONS

Michelangelo: Draftsman/Architect Through December n; 1988 West Building, Main Floor This exhibition of Michelangelo drawings, presented in two parts, reflects the diverse talents of this remarkable Renaissance mas­ ter. The first part focuses on 46 figure draw­ ings by Michelangelo, ranging from prelimi­ nary studies to highly finished "presentation" sheets. Included among the figure drawings is the recently discovered drawing of Cleo­ patra found on the reverse side of the exist­ ing Cleopatra. The second part of the exhibi­ tion concentrates on two of Michelangelo's most important architectural endeavors the facade of the church of San Lorenzo in Flo­ rence and the drum and dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. It includes approximately 30 sketches and two large wooden models of these structures. The first part of the exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, After Titian, Landscape with Milkmaid, c. 1520-1525, in association with the Casa Buonarroti, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection Florence, the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and the Olivetti Company, Milan, will travel to the Musee du Louvre in Paris from May n The Pastoral Landscape: to July 31,1989. The corresponding catalogue The Legacy of Venice is by Michael Hirst of the Courtauld Michelangelo, The Fall of Phaeton, Lent by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth n Through January 22, 1989 Institute of Art, London. The second part has been organized by West Building; Central Gallery the National Gallery, the Casa Buonarroti, The Pastoral Landscape, a two-part focuses on the interpretation of the pastoral and Olivetti. A catalogue for this section, by exhibition on view at the National Gallery landscape in the work of nineteenth- and Henry Millon, Dean of the National and The Phillips Collection, traces the origin twentieth-century artists in America and Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the of this artistic tradition from sixteenth- Europe. On view are works by Gains­ Visual Arts, and Craig Hugh Smyth, former century Venice to the present day. The borough, Constable, Inness, Eakins, Ce­ Kress Professor at the National Gallery, is Legacy of Venice, on view at the National zanne, Matisse, and other masters, showing also available. In addition to the generosity Gallery, highlights the work of Venetian the continuity of the Venetian tradition. of Olivetti, the exhibition is supported by an Renaissance masters and their influence on The exhibition is made possible by grants indemnity from the Federal Council on the European artists of the seventeenth and from Ford Motor Company and The Morris Arts and the Humanities. eighteenth centuries. The selection of and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Addi­ paintings, drawings, and prints includes tional assistance was received from the L. J. works by Giorgione, Titian, Rembrandt, and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation. The exhi­ Claude Lorrain, and Watteau, among other bition is also supported by an indemnity Italian Renaissance Drawings artists. from the Federal Council on the Arts and the At The Phillips Collection, the second Humanities. Through December 31, 1988 ^^ ' **- half of the exhibition, The Modern Vision, West Building, Ground Floor Seventy-four Italian drawings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including some of the finest and earliest sheets in the The Art of Paolo Veronese National Gallery's permanent collection, 1528-1588 make up this exhibition. Well-known masterpieces are seen with many recent Through February 20, 1989 acquisitions and works not previously West Building, Main Floor exhibited. Among the artists represented are Vinci, Perugino, Fra This exhibition commemorates the 4OOth Mantegna, Leonardo da del Piombo, Lotto, anniversary of the death of one of the most Bartolommeo, Sebastiano the Carracci. important sixteenth-century artists, Paolo Tintoretto, Barocci, and Caliari, known as Veronese. The fifty paintings and fifty-four drawings on loan from public and private collections world­ wide illustrate every aspect of Veronese's Master Prints: Selections from career. Renowned as one of the greatest the Permanent Collection colorists of all time, Veronese painted works famous for their visual splendor, their Through December 31, 1988 luminosity, and the jewel-like opulence of West Building, Ground Floor their silvered brocades. This survey is taken from the National The exhibition, which will not travel, is Gallery's own collection, ranging from the accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue late mid-fifteenth century to the present. by W. R. Rearick, professor at the University Over 90 prints are on view, including works of Maryland, with an introductory essay by by Diirer, Rembrandt, Whistler, Toulouse- Terisio Pignatti, professor at the University Paolo Veronese, Entiean Sybil, c. 1558, Lautrec, Johns, and Rosenquist. This exhi­ of Venice. The exhibition is made possible by Harvard University Art Museums (Fogg Art Museum), bition, which highlights major artists as well a grant from Ford Motor Company. It is Gift of Carl H. Pforzheimer Parri Spinelli, Hercules Leaning on His Club, as medium and subject matter, is part of an c. 14303-14405, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon supported by an indemnity from the Federal ongoing display of the Gallery's permanent Bruce Fund and Andrew W. Mellon Fund Council on the Arts and the Humanities. graphic arts collection. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565

GENERAL INFORMATION GALLERY HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday noon to 9:00 p.m. GALLERY TO BE CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. To change your mailing address for the Calendar of Events, please mail a copy of your new address to the Information Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565, taking care to include the mailing label from your last Calendar of Events. The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The East and West Buildings are connected by an all-weather underground passage with a moving walkway. Entrances to the West Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has a ramp for the handicapped, and off 4th Street. The entrance to the East Building is on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza and also has a ramp for the handicapped. RESTAURANTS Four restaurants offer luncheon and light snacks throughout the year. Hours of operation from Monday through Saturday are: Terrace Cafe: 11:00 to 4:30 Concourse Buffet: 10:00 to 4:00 Cascade Cafe: 11:00 to 2:30 (lunch) 2:30 to 4:30 (ice cream service) Garden Cafe: 11:00 to 4:30 Sunday hours are noon to 6:00 for the Terrace Cafe and Concourse Buffet; noon to 3:30 for the Cascade Cafe. For the convenience of concertgoers, the Garden Cafe offers dinner service from 5:00 to 7:30 during the concert season.

COVER: Rene Magritte, The Human Condition (La condition humaine), 1934, National Gallery of Art, Gift of the Collectors Committee