Old Masterworks unth New 12:00 Lecture Series: High Ideals: 17 SUNDAY 23 SATURDAY JANUARY Greek and Classical Imagery in Attributions (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 12:00 Gallery Talk: Claude Monet: American Art, 1776-1S76 Renaissance Sculpture: The Fifteenth The Later Years (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Giovanni Bellini, c. 29 FRIDAY See bottom panels for introductory Century (WB) 2:30 Gallery Talk: A Hard Look at 1427-1516 (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian and foreign language tours; see 12:00 Film: La Symphonic pastorale Oldenburg's Soft Sculpture (EB) Renaissance Sculpture: The Fifteenth reverse side for complete film 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 13 WEDNESDAY Century (WB) information. The Greek Miracle 24 SUNDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Stieglitz in the 12:30 Film: Paul Klee in Egypt 4:00 Sunday Lecture: John Singleton 12:00 Gallery Talk: Claude Monet: Darkroom (EB) 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Cop ley and the First American School The Later Years (WB) 1 FRIDAY 12:30 Film: Dream Window The Greek Miracle National Gallery Closed 6:00 Film: Rendezvous de Juillet 12:00 Film: Orphee 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:30 Gallery Talk: A Hard Look at 7:00 Conceit: The Warsaw Wind 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: The Greek Miracle Oldenburg's Soft Sculpture (EB) 2 SATURDAY (Jiova;.... --.._. i. Saint Jcronn' Reading (detail) Quintet with Michiko Otaki, pianist The Greek Miracle Giovanni Bellini, H80/H90. National Callerv of Art. Samuel 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Alice Neel and 12:00 Gallery Talk: 14 THURSDAY 30 SATURDAY c. 1427-1516 (WB) 19 TUESDAY the Art oj Portraiture 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:00 Teacher Workshop: John 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 6:00 Films: Au dela des Grilles; Les 12:30 Film: Light of the Gods The Greek Miracle Singleton Cop ley and Colonial 3 SUNDAY The Greek Miracle Arnants de Verone 1:00 Gallery Talk: ''Peasants 12:30 Film: Dream Window: American Painting 12:00 Gallery Talk: Giovanni Bellini, 12:00 Lecture Series: High Ideals: 7:00 Concert: Marc Ponthus, pianist Celebrating Twelfth Night'' by David Reflections on the Japanese Garden 12:00 Introductory Survey: The c. 1427-1516 (WB) Greek and Classical Imagery in Terriers II (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: Celestial J''is ion of the Gothic 1:00 Film: Light of the Gods American Art, 1776-1876 26 TUESDAY Abstraction (EB) 2:00 Films: Marion:, Pattes blanches 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 8 FRIDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: The Greek Miracle 20 WEDNESDAY The Greek Miracle 12:30 Film: Light of the Gods 15 FRIDAY Questions of Originality in Sculpture 4:00 Sunday Lecture: A Tour- of 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 12:00 Introductory Survey: The 12:00 Gallery Talk: Giovanni Bellini, (WB) Classical A thens Renaissance Sculpture: The Fifteenth Celestial Vision of the Gothic 9 SATURDAY c. 1427-1516 (WB) 2:30 Gallery Talk: The Art of the 7:00 Concert: National Gallery Century (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 11:00 Public Symposium: Bronzes 12:30 Film: Dream Window: Home: Eighteenth-Century French Orchestra, George Manos., Conductor 12:30 Film: Arata Isozaki II Renaissance Sculpture: The Fifteenth and Marbles of Classical Greece Reflections on the Japanese Garden Decorative Arts (WB) Gala Viennese New Years Concert 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Century (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Stieglitz in the 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: The Greek Miracle 2:30 Gallery Talk: Images of Musical Darkroom (EB) The Greek Miracle 31 SUNDAY 5 TUESDAY Performance in Art (WB) 2:30 Gallery Talk: A Hard Look at 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 21 THURSDAY 10 SUNDAY Oldenburg's Soft Sculpture (EB) Questions oj Originality in Sculpture The Greek Miracle 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 27 WEDNESDAY 12:00 Film: La Belle et le Bete (WB) The Greek Miracle 12:00 Gallery Talk: Claude Monet: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Stieglitz in the 12:00 Film: Paul Klee in Egypt 6 WEDNESDAY 16 SATURDAY 12:30 Film: Arata Isozaki II The Later Years (WB) Darkroom (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: The 12:00 Gallery Talk: Giovanni Bellini, 1:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 12:30 Film: Paul Klee in Egypt 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Renaissance Sculpture: The Fifteenth Greek Miracle c. 1427-1516 (WB) Abstraction (EB) 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: The Greek Miracle Century (WB) 2:30 Gallery Talk: Images of Musical 12:30 Film: Light of the Gods The Greek Miracle 4:00 Sunday Lecture: The Pheidian 12:30 Film: Dream Window: Performance in Art (WB) 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 22 FRIDAY Vision of Athena Japanese Garden 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Manet at the The Greek Miracle Reflections on the 12:00 Gallery Talk: Stieglitz in the 28 THURSDAY 6:00 Film: Les Fortes de la Nuit 2:00 Films: Panique; Quai des Gare. St. Lazare Darkroom (EB) 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 7:00 Concert: Nancy Green, cellist Otfevres 6:00 Film: Jour de Fete; Les Vacances 7 THURSDAY 12:30 Film: Arata Isozaki II The Greek Miracle 2:30 Gallery Talk: The Art of the de M. Hulot 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:30 Gallery Talk: The Art of the 12:30 Film: Paul Klee in Egypt 12 TUESDAY Home: Eighteenth-Century French 7:00 Concert: National Gallery The Greek Miracle Home: Eighteenth-Century French 1:30 Gallery Talk: The Mellon 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Decorative Arts (WB) Orchestra, George Manos, conductor 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Virgin and Decorative Arts (WB) "Venus " and "Bacchus " Rebaptized: The Greek Miracle Child in Sienese Art (WB)

GALEERY TALKS Unless otherwise noted, talks begin INTRODUCTORY TOURS SUNDAY EECTURES SUNDAY CONCERTS in either the Rotunda of the West Talks are given by education division Additional introductory tours of the Lectures given by distinguished Concerts take place at 7:00 p.m. every Building (WB) or at the Ground Floor lecturers and other National Gallery West Building Collection are now avail­ visiting scholars at 4:00 in the East Sunday evening through June 27, 1993, Art Information Desk of the East staff. able Monday through Saturday at Building Large Auditorium. in the West Garden Court of the West Building (EB). Tours of the permanent collection 10:30 and Sunday at 4:00. An addit­ The East Building Large Auditorium Building. Admission to the National and special exhibitions are available Focus: The Permanent Collection ional introductory tour of the East is equipped with a frequency modu­ Gallery and its concerts is always free. with a sign language interpreter and Giovanni Bellini, c. 1427-1516 Building Collection is now given lation system. A sign posted outside Concertgoers are admitted to the West may be scheduled for groups of five or (60 minutes). Eric Denker, Lecturer. Sunday at 3:00. the auditorium directs visitors to the Garden Court on a first-come, first- more with four weeks notice. For adult January 2. 3, 6, 15 at noon, January East Building Art Information Desk served basis beginning at 6:00p.m. groups, please call (202) 842-6247; 12 at 1:00 (WB). Introduction to the West Building where receivers and neck loops are Because the rest of the Gallery closes at for school groups (202) 842-6249 or Collection available on request. 6:00p.m. on Sunday evenings, concert- The Virgin and Child in Sienese Art write to Education Division, Tour Monday through Saturday 10:30, goers arriving after that time may use (60 minutes). Boreth Ly, Education JANUARY 3 Scheduling, National Gallery of An, 1:30, and 3:00 only the 6th Street and Constitution Division Intern. January 7 at noon (WE). Jan Steen, The Dancing Couple (detail). A Tour of Classical Athens Washington, D.C. 20565. Be sure to Sunday 1:00, 3:00, and 4:00 Avenue entrance to the West Building. dated 1663. National Gallery of Art. Widener John Camp the type of tour you are request­ "Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night" Collection West Building Rotunda Concerts are broadcast in their entirety include Assistant Director of the Agora two alternate dates and times, the by David Teniers II (Ailsa Mellon Bruce on a one-month delayed basis on radio ing, Excavations, American School of number in your group, a contact person Fund) (15 minutes). Eric Denker, Introduction to the Last Building station WGTS 91.9-FM every Sunday Fridays, Sundays at 2:00. (No talks Classical Studies, Athens and hi. 7her address. You will be noti­ Lecturer. January 7 at 1:00 (WB). Collection evening at 7:00 p.m. For further will be given January 1, 8, 22). fied in \ riting of the status of your A Hard Look at Oldenburg's Soft Monday through Saturday 11:30 and JANUARY 10 information about the concerts call Stieglitz in the Darkroom. (50 min­ request. Sculpture (30 minutes). Clarence B. 1:30 The Pheidian Vision of Athena (202) 842-6941. utes). Wilford W. Scott, Lecturer. Beginning this month Gallery Talks Sheffield, Jr., Graduate Lecturing Sunday 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 Jerome J. Pollitt JANUARY 3 January 9, 10, 13, 22 at noon (EB). listings are divided into several new Fellow. January 15, 23, 29 at 2:30 (EB). East Building, Art Information Desk John M. Schiff Professor of Classical National Gallery Orchestra categories: Introducing Art Archaeology and History of Art, Yale Italian Renaissance Sculpture: The George Manos, Conductor FOREIGN EANGUAGE TOURS University Focus: The Permanent Collection talks Fifteenth Century (50 minutes). J. Questions of Originality in Sculpture Gala Viennese New Year Concert include the education division's Russell Sale, Lecturer. January 16, 17, (60 minutes). Philip L. Leonard, Foreign language tours of the JANUARY 17 JANUARY 10 traditional theme tours based on 20, 26, 29 at noon (WB). Lecturer. January 30 at 2:00, January permanent collection are offered on John Singleton Copley and the First Nancy Green, cellist objects selected from the National 31, February 3, 8, 12 at noon (WB). Tuesdays. Tours of the West Building American School The Art of the Home: Eighteenth- Works by Rachmaninoff, Bach, and Gallery's holdings. are at noon and begin in the Rotunda Jules D. Prown Century French Decorative Arts Abstraction (45 minutes). Robin Bruch of the West Building. Tours of the East Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Special Exhibition talks discuss works (45 minutes). Anne Helmreich, Ptacek, Lecturer. January 14, 21 at JANUARY 17 Building are at 2:00 and begin at the Art, Yale University of art on temporary exhibition Graduate Lecturing Fellow. January 1:00 (EB). The Warsaw Wind Quintet with Art Information Desk of the East borrowed from major museums and 16, 22, 30 at 2:30 (WB). Curators and Conservators, and JANUARY 24 Michiko Otaki, pianist private collections around the world. Building. Claude Monet: The Later Years Specialists Alice Neel and the Art of Portraiture Works by Thuille, Mozart, and Art talks are in a new January 5: French Ann Sutherland Harris Wojciech Kilar Introducing (45 minutes). Frances Feldman, The Mellon "Venus" and "Bacchus'' designed as a beginning January 12: Spanish Professor of Art History, University of format Lecturer. January 23, 24, 27, Rebaptized: Old Masterworks with New JANUARY 24 to understanding the January 19: German Pittsburgh approach February 2 at noon (WB). Attributions (30 minutes). Douglas Marc Ponthus, pianist language, techniques, and subjects of January 26: Italian Special Exhibitions Lewis, Curator of Sculpture and Decor­ JANUARY 31 Works by Brahms, Boulez. the visual arts. ative Arts. January 28 at 1:30 (WB). Manet at the Gare St. Lazare Stockhausen, and Debussy "The Greek Miracle " Introductory Slide Curators and Conservators, and Harry Rand Overview. (30 minutes). Education Images of Musical Performance in Art JANUARY 31 Specialists talks present the expertise Curator, Painting and Sculpture Division Staff. Meet in the East (60 minutes). Stephen Ackert, Music National Gallery Orchestra of other National Gallery professionals National Museum of American Art Building Large Auditorium, Tuesdays Specialist. January 26, 31, February 4 George Manos, conductor on a regular basis. Smithsonian Institution and Thursdays at 10:30, Wednesdays, at 2:30 (WB). Works to be announced National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITION CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Film Programs John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy East Building Auditorium January 17 through April 11, 1993 The Fifth Century B.C. West Building, Galleries 74 and 75 A series of French films from the late East Building, Upper Eevel and Mezzanine through February 7, 1993 1940s and early 1950s opens John Singleton Copley's Watson and merchant and one-time Lord Mayor Sunday, January 10 with Marcel the Shark (1778), a dramatic depic­ of London the work vividly The National Gallery launches the installation was provided by The Game's Les Fortes de la Nuit (1946) tion of the rescue of 14-year old depicts the traumatic event in his 2,500th anniversary of the birth of Circle of the National Gallery of Art. and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Brook Watson from the attack of a youth, which resulted in the loss of democracy with this unprecedented Macintosh computers are courtesy of Bete (1946). Focusing on the shark in Havana harbor, is the focus part of his leg. Copley drew upon exhibition of some of the finest Apple Computer, Inc; monitors and "tradition of quality" then of this exhibition. Among the most classical sources in his heroic examples of original sculpture that graphics cards were provided by dominating film production in popular works in the Gallery's col­ portrayal of a man caught between survive from fifth-century B.C. SuperMac Technology. France, the program includes both lection, it has been joined bv two of life and death. While the painting Greece, created during the golden A recorded tour, introduced by rare and well-known works by Jean Copley's most important known recalls Renaissance pyramidal age that brought forth new traditions Earl A. Powell III, director, National Delannoy, Rene Clement, Andre versions of the subject one in a geometries in its arrangement, its of art and government still current Gallery of Art, and narrated by J. Cayatte, Jacques Becker, Henri- Les Amants de Verone, directed byAndre Cayatte, 1948 (The Museum of Modern Art/Film similar grand horizontal format animated, spotlighted figures and today. Thirty-four marbles and Carter Brown, director emeritus, can Georges Clouzot, and other directors Still Archive) from the Museum of Fine Arts, strong diagonal accents infuse the bronzes represent the great sculp­ be rented at the entrance to the John Singleton Copiev, Head of a Negro, prominent during that period. The Boston, the other a smaller, vertical tural innovations and achievements exhibition. Special headsets and painting with a modern, romantic Institute of Arts, Institution, 1992, 58 minutes): Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot. 1777-1778, The Detroit series, which will continue each composition from the Detroit tension. Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams in the depiction of what has been scripts are available for visitors who weekend through March, is presented January 14, 15, and 16 at 12:30. 1949, 95 minutes) and Pattes Institute of Arts. Other works in the John Singleton Copley's Watson Fund considered the ideal or classical are hard-of-hearing. An exhibition in conjunction with the exhibition Panique (Julien Duvivier, 1946, blanches (Jean Gremillon. 1949. 92 exhibition include five of the artist's and the Shark is the latest in a series image of the human figure. The Head of a Warrior, 485-480 B.C., Staaliche brochure is available free of charge. Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France. 92 minutes) and Quai des Orfevres minutes): January 30 at 2:00. preparatory drawings, his oil study of focus exhibitions that the Kritios Boy, Contemplative Athena, Antikensammlungen und Glyptotek, Munich Pass system. The Gallery has Robert Kolker, professor of English (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947, 105 Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati. 1948, Head of a Negro, and six engravings National Gallery has organized to Cavalry from the Parthenon Frieze, instituted a pass system for the de M. Teacher Workshop and comparative literature at the minutes); January 16 at 2:00. 87 minutes) and Les iacances by earlier artists, which Copley may examine important works of art in and Nike (Victory) Unbinding Her through May 23, 1993. exhibition. Advance passes can be University of Maryland, and co- La Symphonic pastorale (Jean Hulot (Jacques Tati. 1953. 93 have used while planning Watson its collection. John Singleton Copley and Colonial Sandal are among the icons of fifth- A fully illustrated catalogue obtained free of charge at the organizer of the series, will introduce Delannoy, 1946, 105 minutes): minutes): January 31 at 6:00. and the Shark. The exhibition was organized by American Painting is the topic of a century sculpture on view. The includes object entries by Buitron- Gallery's East Building. Passes can the program on January 10 at 6:00. January 17 at 12:00. John Singleton Copley, born in the National Gallery of Art in workshop for teachers on Saturday, exhibition is organized by the Oliver, essays by distinguished inter­ also be obtained at all Ticketmaster Rendezvous de Juillet (Jacques Light of the Gods (National Boston in 1738, had become a well- cooperation with the Detroit January 30, from 10:00 a.m. to National Gallery of Art in collabor­ national scholars, and an introduc­ locations and Hecht Co. stores for a Becker, 1949, 110 minutes); January Holiday Hours Gallery of Art, 1988, 30 minutes); established portrait painter by the Institute of Arts and the Museum of 2:30 p.m. The workshop will feature ation with The Metropolitan Museum tion by Nicholas Gage, Greek-born service charge of $2.00 per pass. 17 at 6:00. January 3 at 1:00, January 6-8 at On January7 2 the Gallery will late 1750s. Paul Revere, John Fine Arts, Boston. Ellen G. Miles, the focus exhibition of Copley's of Art and the Ministry of Culture of writer and former correspondent in Through Ticketmaster PhoneCharge Arata Isozaki II (Michael 12:30. remain open until 7:00 p.m. Please Hancock, and Samuel Adams were curator of painting and sculpture at Watson and the Shark and examine the Government of Greece. The Athens for the New York Times. An there is a $3.00 service fee per pass Blackwood, 1992, video, 58 La Belle et le Bete (Jean Cocteau, check the back panel of the Calen­ among some of his politically the National Portrait Gallery, Wash­ the art and historical context of exhibition is made possible by Philip audiovisual presentation, narrated and a $1.00 handling fee per order. minutes); January 20 through 22 at 1946, 96 minutes); January 10 at dar for extended restaurant hours. important sitters. In the spring of ington, is guest curator and author portraiture and history painting in Morris Companies Inc. by actor Christopher Plummer and For this service call one of the 12:30. 12:00. 1774, Copley went to London and of the exhibition brochure. Nicolai Colonial America. The Greek Miracle includes shown in a theater adjacent to the following numbers: Orphee (Jean Cocteau, 1949, 112 Les Fortes de la Nuit (Marcel Italy, studying Italian paintings and Cikovsky. Jr.. curator of American Open to teachers in all disciplines twenty-two pieces from Greece, most exhibition space, introduces visitors Washington, D.C. minutes); January 24 at 12:00. Game, 1946, 106 minutes); January classical sculpture. and British paintings, is and grade levels for a nominal fee. of which have never before left their to the glories of fifth-century B.C. (202) 432-SEAT Au dela des Grilles (Rene Clement, 10 at 6:00. Exhibition Catalogues Watson and the Shark was the coordinating curator for the Gallery. Advance registration required. Call native soil, and twelve more from Greece. Listening devices for the 86 minutes) and Les Amants de Baltimore, MD Dream Window: Reflections on the 1949, Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, first large-scale history painting that After closing at the Gallery on (202) 842-6796. Europe's leading museums and The audiovisual presentation, to assist Verone (Andre Cayatte, 1948, 110 (410)481-SEAT Japanese Garden (Smithsonian 194S-1954 Copley created abroad. Commis­ April 11. the exhibition will travel to Metropolitan Museum of Art. visitors who are hard-of-hearing, are January 24 at 6:00. minutes); $47.50 sioned by Brook Watson the the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, The works were selected by guest available on request at the recorded Nationwide toll-free Paul Klee The Legend of the Nile: 13 to August 1. 1993. curator Diana Buitron-Oliver, a well- tour desk. This presentation is made (800) 551-SEAT The Greek Miracle: subject of the painting, a wealthy from Mav New Gallery Guide in Egypt (Riidiger Siinner, 1992, 60 known and widely published scholar possible by a generous grant from Same-day passes are available free Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of minutes); January 27 through 29 at of Greek and Roman art and archae­ Stavros S. Niarchos. of charge, but in limited numbers, in The first comprehensive survev of Democracy, The Fifth Centur)r B. C. 12:30, January 31 at 12:00. the National Building at 4th Street and the Gallery's collections, National $25.00 CLOSING EXHIBITIONS ology who teaches at Georgetown For the first time, the East Gallery of Art, Washington, 328 University in Washington. The Greek Gallery has installed interactive Constitution Avenue, N.W. The Art of the American Indian Frontier: pages, with 309 color plates, is coordinator for the exhibition is computer stations to assist the public passes will be distributed each day Self-Guided Tours The Chandler-Pohrt Collection available in a reasonably priced Ellsworth Kelly: Katerina Romiopoulou, director of in the interpretation of an exhibition. thereafter on a first-come, first- $32.00 Red Yellow Blue White, Painting for works of art "I Am Still Learning," Late Works by antiquities. Ministry of Culture of the Perseus, a powerful research tool for served basis at the Gallery between paperback format. The The Years in France, 1948-1954 a White Wall, Train Landscape, and are illustrated in full color and the Masters discusses works by Titian, Available from the National Gallery Government of Greece. Carlos A. the study of ancient Greece, devel­ 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on week­ Tiger. texts have been written by Gallery El Greco, Rembrandt, Monet, Publications Service West Building, Ground Floor, Outer Tier Picon, curator-in-charge of the oped by Harvard University and days and Saturdays and between Co-curated by Jack Cowart, staff and other experts. To order the Cezanne, Matisse, Homer, and others Sales Information (202) 842-6466 department of Greek and Roman art published by Yale University7 Press, 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m on through January 24, 1993 formerly National Gallery of Art handbook at the special price of who continued to paint with no loss Mail Order (301) 322-5900 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been specially adapted for public Sundays. This exhibition of approximately fifty The exhibition includes a group of curator of twentieth-century art, and $10.95, please call our mail order of creativity or inspiration in their is coordinating the exhibition in New use in conjunction with the exhibi­ For more information on passes, rarely seen paintings and reliefs, important works from 1950 based on Alfred Pacquement, of the Galerie office at (301) 322-5900 or visit our last years. Available in the West York, where it will be seen March 11 tion. Support for the Perseus call (202) 842-6684. seventy-two drawings and collages, everyday objects, including Cutout in nationale du Jeu de Paume, Ellsworth bookstores. Building Art Information Room. Introducing Western and twenty-eight photographs is the Wood, White Relief, Relief with Blue, Kelly: The Years in France, 1948- Families Stieglitz's photographs given to the Self-Guided Tours for Art: Varieties of first to be devoted to the body of art and La Combe II. Also on view are 1954 premiered at the Jeu de Paume Stieglitz in the tone, and paper selection. Gallery by Georgia O'Keeffe These free family publications are Visual Perception created by leading abstract artist Kelly s grid and checkerboard in Paris and then traveled to the Works in the exhibition span National Recorded Tours made possible by a grant from the Darkroom Stieglitz's career, beginning with in 1949 and 1980. The works were Philip Leonard, Lecturer Ellsworth Kelly during his develop­ compositions Cite and Meschers of Westfalisches Landesmuseum in Vira I. Heinz Endowment. photographs taken in Europe in the selected by National Gallery curator Audio tours are $3.50 and $3.00 for Noon mental years in France. The wTorks 1951, which were developed from Minister, before opening in Washing­ East Building. Ground Floor late 1880s and continuing with of photographs Sarah Greenough, senior citizens, students, and groups Portraits & Personalities explores East Building Large Auditorium trace Kelly's dramatic shift from collages of drawings that he cut up ton. A full color catalogue documents through February 14, 1993 of Georgia O'Keeffe, includ­ who is author of the accompanying of ten or more. Special headsets famous portraits in the Gallery's figurative art to his distinctive inven­ and randomly rearranged. this important period and contains an portraits This six-week survey, beginning this that have not been exhibi­ brochure. Constance McCabe and and/or scripts are available for collection for families with children tion of multicolored panel paintings, Kelly's move away from the essay by Yve-Alain Bois, Pulitzer The art of photographic technique is ing several month, focuses upon the determining more than sixty years. Stieglitz Nora Kennedy, National Gallery visitors who are hard-of-hearing. ages 8 to 10. Available at West the latter his primary and lasting checkerboard and grid compositions professor of fine arts at Harvard demonstrated in this exhibition of ted in VISION behind the object. In each photo­ consulting conservators, also To reserve recorded tours for Building Art Information Desks. contribution to contemporary to multicolored panel paintings in University, as well as essays by seventy-five prints by the preeminent was the first to take successful lecture, a single, descriptive word, American photographer Alfred graphs during a snowstorm, includ­ contributed to the brochure, along groups, call (202) 842-6592. Shapes & Patterns focuses on the abstract art of the last four decades. 1952-1953 is revealed in the works Cowart and Pacquement. highlighted in the title, emphasizes Stieglitz. By showing different kinds ing Winter Fifth Avenue^ which is with Julia Thompson, exhibition The following recorded tours of geometry of the East Building's art the source of these crucial decisions. of prints made from the same nega­ shown in five variations. The assistant in the department of the Gallery's permanent collection and architecture for families with 26 AND 30 tive, the exhibition examines how following year, he made photographs photographs. The brochure is made may be rented in the Rotunda on the children ages 4 to 8. Available at the JANUARY Art of the American Indian Frontier: the Plains Indian Museum at the of the Gothic photographic prints look, how they in the rain, and in 1896 he created possible by The Arcadia Foundation Main Floor of the West Building: East Building Art Information Desk. The Celestial Vision Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, some of the first night images. with additional funding from The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist The Collecting of Chandler and Pohrt Wyoming. differ from one another, and how the All of the prints in the exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art. Paintings, American Art, and The The exhibition was organized by artist controlled and changed his East Building, Upper Level, North Bridge not travel. Director's Tour (a discussion of Public Symposium Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the statements through cropping, scale, are drawn from the key set of The exhibition will through January 24, 1993 the Detroit Institute of Arts in fifteenth- through early twentieth- Bronzes and Marbles of Classical Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth association with the National Gallery century paintings). An audio tape of Greece Century B.C.; Carol Mattusch, George The dramatic and dynamic character (1889-1981) and Richard A. Point of Art and the Buffalo Bill Historical Series and Sequences: rarely exhibited as the complete sets prints include Josef Albers' twelve Twentieth-Century Art is also Mason University; Sophie Descamps, of objects produced by Woodland and (b. 1911). Center, with support from the the artists created. "homage to the square" screenprints, Saturday, January 9, 1993 Contemporary available for rental at the publi­ Musee du Louvre; Andrew Stewart, Plains Indians in the nineteenth A seventeen-minute video on the National Endowment for the The 123 drawings and prints Gray Instrumentation II; twelve 11:00-4:00 cations desks on the Concourse University of California, Berkeley; century is revealed in this exhibition formation of the Chandler-Pohrt Humanities, the city of Detroit, the Drawings and Prints represent a wide range of subjects etchings, Pages, by Robert Mangold; East Building Auditorium Level, East Building, adjacent to the Mary Sturgeon, University of North of 152 of the most important works collection accompanies the exhibition. state of Michigan, and the Founders from the Permanent and styles. Among figurative works and Jiirgen Partenheimer's Book of post World War II galleries, and on Bronzes and Marbles of Classical Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Peter G. from the unparalleled Chandler-Pohrt Listening devices for visitors who are Society Detroit Institute of Arts. After are David Hockney's twenty etchings Wanderings, one of only two variant the Upper Level Bridge. Greece will present a synthesis of Calligas, the Acropolis Museum. collection of American Indian art. hard-of-hearing are available on closing at the Gallery, the exhibition Collection entitled The Blue Guitar, which pay sets of these etchings that the artist tours for Art of the modern interpretations of classical The East Building Auditorium is Recorded Decorative, utilitarian, and cere­ request at the recorded tour desk. will travel to the Seattle Art Museum West Building, Central Gallery colorful tribute to a poem by Wallace completed. American Indian Frontier: The Greek sculpture. Distinguished schol­ equipped with a frequency modu­ Co-curators of the exhibition are (March 11-May 9, 1993), the Buffalo Stevens that was in turn inspired by a The exhibition was organized by monial objects, including beadwork, through March 14, 1993 Collecting of Chandler and Pohrt ars will address issues of aesthetics, lation system. A sign posted outside cradles, and pipes are featured. David W. Penney, of the Detroit Bill Historical Center (June 18- Picasso painting. Alex Katz's four Ruth E. Fine, curator of modern and The Greek Miracle: Sculpture meaning, and technique raised by the the auditorium directs visitors to the The Chandler-Pohrt collection of Institute of Arts, and George P. Horse September 12, 1993), and the Detroit This selection celebrates many recent Polka Dot Blouse prints feature lively prints and drawings, National from the Dawn of Democracy, The works of art in the exhibition. East Building Art Information Desk more than four thousand objects was Capture, a member of the Gros Institute of Arts (October 17, 1993- acquisitions, including an exciting portraits of his wife printed in a Gallery of Art, with the help of Fifth Century B. C. may be rented at Speakers will include Diana Buitron- where receivers and neck loops are assembled by Milford G. Chandler Ventre tribe and former curator for February6, 1994). array of unbound portfolios and combination of screenprinting and assistant curator Charles Ritchie. the entrances of those exhibitions. Oliver, guest curator of The Greek available on request. series of works in groupings that are lithography. Abstract minimalist NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, B.C. 20565 GENERAL INFORMATION The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America. 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COVER: John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, National Gallery of Art, Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund from the exhibition John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark"