 ADMIION I FR  DIRCTION  10:00 TO 5:00

National Gallery of Art 

Advance Exhibition Schedule

Upcoming Exhibitions

In the Library: Companion Pieces National Galler of Art, Washington, April 24–August 25, 2017

Contemporar art movements such as conceptual art, performance art, and minimalism emphasized ideas, experience, and process over the tangile artwork; thus, related printed documents often provided the onl evidence of a work's existence. From the Lirar's vertical files, this selection of documents accompanied such ephemeral works and, among other functions, accessorized a performance piece, such as John Cage's Variations IV; invited participation in the art-making process itself, such as Alan Kaprow's happenings posters; and provided schema for the execution of a work, such as Dan Graham's Performance.

The installation is curated  Anne H. immons, reference lirarian for vertical files and microforms, department of lirar reader services, National Galler of Art, and is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monda through Frida.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: John Cage with David Tudor present a performance of Variations IV at the Feigen/Palmer Galler, 1963, invitation, National Galler of Art Lirar, Vertical Files

America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting National Galler of Art, Washington, Ma 21–August 20, 2017

As the founding fathers were drawing from French nlightenment philosoph, earl American collectors were developing a taste for 18th-centur French painting. ince then, Americans have enthusiasticall collected French painting from this period. Toda, splendid works  artists such as François oucher, Joseph Ducreux, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard are in pulic collections across the countr—from major metropolises to Omaha, Muncie, and Jacksonville. For the first time, America Collects ighteenth-Centur French Painting will ring together nearl 70 of these paintings, well- known masterpieces and hidden gems alike, into an exhiition that tells the stor of the collectors, curators, museum directors, and dealers responsile for developing an American appetite for the French rococo and neoclassical stles. A full illustrated catalog on the development of this histor of taste will accompan the exhiition.

The exhiition is curated  Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Galler of Art

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington.

Caption: Joseph Ducreux, Le Discret, c. 1791, oil on aluminum, transferred from canvas, pencer Museum of Art

Matthias Mansen: Configurations National Galler of Art, Washington, Jul 23–Decemer 13, 2017

Matthias Mansen is a contemporar erlin-ased artist (. 1958) whose work advances the long tradition of woodlock printing. Mansen masterfull laers printings from multiple locks, sometimes emploing "ghost prints" to achieve delicate modulations of tonal intensit and texture. Concerned with process nearl as much as final product, Mansen works on numerous prints simultaneousl and progressivel carves and recarves his locks. His projects are est exhiited in an ensemle, which allows the grammar and rhthms of his repeated cognate arrangements and consonant forms to ecome tangile.

The installation is curated  John A. Tson, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow in modern prints and drawings, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Matthias Mansen, tudio—Head and Feet, 1987, color woodcut, National Galler of Art, Washington, Gift of Wolfgang Wittrock, in Honor of the 50th Anniversar of the National Galler of Art

Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures National Galler of Art, Washington, Octoer 8–Decemer 3, 2017

The 2012 discover of a drawing  Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) depicting his so-called fantas figures is the inspiration ehind a revelator exhiition of the corresponding paintings. Fragonard's drawing presents thumnail-sized sketches relating to 14 of his known paintings—rapidl executed, rightl colored portraits of lavishl costumed individuals, including the Galler's own Young Girl Reading (c. 1770). On loan from international pulic and private collections, Fragonard's fantas figures will e assemled alongside his original sketch for the first time. The exhiition, as well as its full illustrated accompaning catalog, presents scientific research into the msterious series and examines the 18th-centur Parisian world of new mone, unexpected social alliances, and extravagant fashions from which these unique paintings emerged.

The exhiition is curated  Yuriko Jackall, assistant curator, department of French paintings, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1770, oil on canvas, National Galler of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Mellon ruce in memor of her father, Andrew W. Mellon

Bosch to Bloemaert: Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam National Galler of Art, Washington, Octoer 8, 2017–Januar 7, 2018

ome 100 of the finest drawings  Netherlandish artists orn efore 1585 are rought together in this exhiition from the collection of the Museum oijmans Van euningen. Featured are nearl ever form of drawing made  draftsmen throughout the period, from figure studies to stained glass window designs, nature studies, ilical sujects, and genre scenes. The exhiition also gathers works in a variet of media including metalpoint, pen and ink, rush and wash, chalk, charcoal, and watercolor. Highlights include 15th-centur studies from the circle of Rogier van der Weden, two sheets  Hieronmus osch, six drawings  Pieter ruegel the lder, and a selection of works  Araham loemaert. A full illustrated catalog accompanies the exhiition.

The exhiition is curated  Alert J. len, senior curator of drawings and prints at the Museum oijmans Van euningen, Rotterdam, and tace ell, associate curator, department of old master drawings, National Galler of Art, Washington.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Hieronmus osch, The Owl's Nest, c. 1505–1515, pen and rown ink, Museum oijmans Van euningen, Rotterdam

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry Musée du Louvre, Paris, Feruar 20–Ma 22, 2017 National Galler of Ireland, Dulin, June 17–eptemer 17, 2017 National Galler of Art, Washington, Octoer 22, 2017–Januar 21, 2018

This landmark exhiition examines the artistic exchanges among Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries from 1650 to 1675, when the reached the height of their technical ailit and master of depictions of domestic life. The exhiition rings together some 75 works  Vermeer and his fellow painters of the Dutch Golden Age including Gerard ter orch, Gerrit Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Gariel Metsu, Frans van Mieris, Caspar Netscher, and Jan teen.  juxtaposing paintings related  theme, composition, and technique, the exhiition explores how these artists inspired, rivalled, surpassed, and pushed each other to greater artistic achievement. The paintings also reflect how these masters responded to the changing artistic climate of the Dutch Repulic in the third quarter of the 17th centur, particularl in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden, and The Hague. The exhiition features ten paintings  Vermeer (man of which have not een seen in the U since the Galler's legendar 1995–1996 exhiition, Johannes Vermeer), including The Lacemaker (c. 1669–1670, Musée du Louvre, Paris) and The Love Letter (c. 1669-70, Rijksmuseum). A full illustrated catalog features essas  the curators, as well as other essas and entries on the ojects in the exhiition  a team of international scholars.

This exhiition is curated  Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern aroque paintings, National Galler of Art, Washington; Adriaan Waioer, head curator, National Galler of Ireland, Dulin; and laise Ducos, curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington, the Musée de Louvre, Paris, and the National Galler of Ireland, Dulin.

Made possile  the Hata Foundation. The exhiition is also generousl supported  Dr. Mihael and Mrs. Mah Polmeropoulos. Additional funding is provided  The xhiition Circle of the National Galler of Art.

Caption: Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a alance, c. 1664, oil on canvas, National Galler of Art, Washington, Widener Collection

In the Tower: Anne Truitt National Galler of Art, Washington, Novemer 19, 2017–April 1, 2018

Anne Truitt (1921–2004), one of the most original and important sculptors of the postwar era, designed simple geometric constructions faricated in wood that she would paint in multiple laers to create astract compositions of sutle color in three dimensions. even sculptures, two paintings, and five drawings form the core of a small surve that will allow viewers to appreciate Truitt's classic work from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. An accompaning rochure will feature excerpts of an interview with Truitt  James Meer.

The exhiition is curated  James Meer, associate curator, department of modern art, National Galler of Art, Washington.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Presented with support from the Tower Project of the National Galler of Art

Caption: Anne Truitt, Knight's Heritage, 1963, acrlic on wood, National Galler of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee

Outliers and American Vanguard Art National Galler of Art, Washington, Januar 28–Ma 13, 2018 High Museum of Art, , June 24–eptemer 30, 2018 Los Angeles Count Museum of Art, Novemer 18, 2018–March 18, 2019 ome 250 works explore three distinct periods in American histor when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms ased on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhiition aligns work  such diverse artists as Charles heeler, Christina Ramerg, and Matt Mullican with oth historic folk art and works  self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet oel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx of radicall expressive work made on the margins that redefined the oundaries of the mainstream art world, while challenging the ver categories of "outsider" and "self-taught." Historicizing the shifting identit and role of this distinctl American version of modernism's "other," the exhiition proes assumptions aout creativit, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporar culture. A full illustrated catalog accompanies the exhiition.

The exhiition is curated  Lnne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Horace Pippin, Interior, 1944, oil on canvas, National Galler of Art, Washington, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Meer P. Potamkin, in Honor of the 50th Anniversar of the National Galler of Art

Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe National Galler of Art, Washington, Januar 28–Ma 13, 2018 Art Museum of stonia/Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, June 8–eptemer 16, 2018

Undoutedl the greatest Renaissance artist from stonia, Michel ittow (c. 1469–1525) was orn in Reval (now Tallinn in present-da stonia), likel studied in ruges with Hans Memling, and worked at the courts of renowned uropean roals such as King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isaella of Castille. Through some 20 works, representing most of ittow's small oeuvre, the exhiition will offer an opportunit to examine his art in a roader context, including a possile collaoration with Juan de Flandes and ittow's relationship to his Netherlandish contemporaries. The exhiition will e presented  oth museums to mark the occasion of the centennial of the stonian Repulic in 2018.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington, and the Art Museum of stonia/Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn

Caption: Michel ittow, Portrait of Diego Guevara (?), c. 1515/1518, oil on panel, National Galler of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna National Galler of Art, Washington, Feruar 25–Jul 8, 2018

The Descrizione del acro Monte della Vernia (1612) depicts the monaster and dramatic rock terrain of La Verna, the site where aint Francis received the stigmata. The gifted aroque draftsman Jacopo Ligozzi was hired to illustrate the volume and he cleverl designed overslips pasted on 5 of the 22 engraved illustrations in a efore-and- after fashion to demonstrate the changes to the topograph since aint Francis's time. Drawing on the Galler's holdings of Franciscan imager, spanning the 15th through the 18th centuries, this exhiition places the Descrizione del acro Monte della Vernia within its most significant artistic and art historical context  examining traditional representations of the experiences of aint Francis on the mountain of La Verna and innovations on traditional Franciscan suject matter characteristic of the Counter Reformation.

The exhiition is curated  Ginger Hammer, assistant curator, department of old master prints, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Nicolo oldrini after Titian, aint Francis Receiving the tigmata, c. 1530, woodcut, National Galler of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon ruce Fund

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings National Galler of Art, Washington, March 4–Ma 28, 2018 Peaod ssex Museum, alem, June 30–eptemer 23, 2018 J. Paul Gett Museum, Los Angeles, Novemer 20, 2018–Feruar 10, 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–Ma 27, 2019 Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 16–eptemer 15, 2019 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Octoer 13, 2019–Januar 5, 2020

For more than fort ears, all Mann (. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingl eautiful photographs that span a road od of work including portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. all Mann: A Thousand Crossings explores how her relationship with the outh has shaped her work. ome 125 photographs, man of which have not een exhiited or pulished previousl, offer oth a sweeping overview of Mann's artistic achievement and a focused exploration on the continuing influence of the outh on her work. Mann's powerful and provocative work is organized into five sections: famil, landscape, attlefields, legac, and mortalit. The exhiition is accompanied  a full illustrated catalog with essas that explore the development of Mann's art; her famil photographs; contemporar representations of the lack od; the landscape as repositor of cultural and personal memor; and Mann's det to 19th-centur photographers and techniques.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington and Peaod ssex Museum, alem, Massachusetts

Caption: all Mann, Deep outh, Untitled, (carred Tree), 1998, gelatin silver print, National Galler of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. chad Fund. © 2016 all Mann

Cézanne Portraits Musée d’Orsa, Paris, June 13–eptemer 24, 2017 National Portrait Galler, London, Octoer 26, 2017–Feruar 11, 2018 National Galler of Art, Washington, March 25–Jul 1, 2018

ringing together some 60 examples drawn from collections around the world, Cézanne Portraits is the first exhiition devoted to the famed post- impressionist’s portraits. The revelator exhiition provides the first full visual account of Paul Cézanne’s portrait practice, exploring the pictorial and thematic characteristics of his works in the genre, the chronological development of his stle and method, and the range and influence of his sitters. everal paintings are exclusive to the National Galler of Art’s presentation, while some works have never efore een exhiited in the United tates. The exhiition is accompanied  a full illustrated catalog with essas  the exhiition’s curators—John lderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Mar Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings at the National Galler of Art, and Xavier Re, director of collections at the Musée d’Orsa; also included are a iographical essa on Cézanne’s sitters  iographer Alex Danchev and a chronolog of the artist’s life  Jane Warman.

The exhiition is curated  John lderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Mar Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings at the National Galler of Art, and Xavier Re, director of collections at the Musée d’Orsa.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington, the National Portrait Galler, London, and the Musée d’Orsa, Paris

The exhiition, in Washington, is made possile through the generous support of the Anna-Maria and tephen Kellen Foundation.

Caption: Paul Cézanne, o in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-1890, oil on canvas, National Galler of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversar of the National Galler of Art

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, 1940-1950 National Galler of Art, Washington, Novemer 4, 2018–Feruar 18, 2019

During the 1940s American photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everda life in aint Paul and Chicago to a visionar professional shooting for on, Vogue, Fortune, and Life. For the first time, the formative decades of Parks’s 60-ear career are the focus of an exhiition, which rings together 120 photographs and ephemera—including magazines, ooks, letters, and famil pictures. The exhiition will illustrate how Parks’s earl experiences at the Farm ecurit Administration, Office of War Information, and tandard Oil (New Jerse) as well as his close relationships with Ro trker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph llison, helped shape his groundreaking stle. A full illustrated catalog, with extensive new research and previousl unpulished images, will accompan the exhiition.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington.

Caption: Gordon Parks, Washington, D.C. Government charwoman (American Gothic), 1942, gelatin silver print, Lirar of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Courtes of The Gordon Parks Foundation

Current Exhibitions

Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism Musée Fare de Montpellier Agglomération, June 25–Octoer 16, 2016 Musée d’Orsa, Paris, Novemer 14, 2016–March 5, 2017 National Galler of Art, Washington, April 9–Jul 9, 2017

Despite his contriutions to the irth of impressionism, Frédéric azille (1841-1870) remains relativel unknown. A thematic presentation of 75 works— including paintings  contemporaries such as Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir—will ring to light azille’s place as a central figure in the movement. everal examples from the Galler’s collection, which houses the largest group of azille’s works outside of France, will e featured in the first major American exhiition on the artist in almost 25 ears. Paintings  his predecessors, Gustave Couret and Théodore Rousseau, compared with those of azille, explore the sources and influences on his limited ut visionar oeuvre.

The exhiition is curated  Kimerl A. Jones, curator of 19th-centur French paintings, National Galler of Art; Michel Hilaire, General Heritage Curator, director of the Musée Fare, Montpellier; and Paul Perrin, curator of paintings, Musée d'Orsa, Paris.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington; the Musée Fare, Montpellier; and the Musée d’Orsa, Paris

Caption: Frédéric azille, Portraits of the *** Famil, called The Famil Gathering, 1867, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsa, Paris, purchased with the assistance of Marc azille, 1905. © Musée d'Orsa, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice chmidt

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries National Galler of Art, Washington, March 12–Jul 16, 2017

ome 100 drawings dating from the 14th to the 20th centur are presented in an exhiition of masterworks donated  one of the great connoisseurs of the 20th centur, Ian Woodner, and his daughters, Dian and Andrea. The Woodner Collections includes drawings executed  outstanding draftsmen such as Leonardo da Vinci, Alrecht Dürer, , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, dgar Degas, and Palo Picasso, among man others.

The exhiition is curated  Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Fra artolommeo, One Angel lowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a tandard, c. 1500, pen and rown ink, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper, National Galler of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography National Galler of Art, Washington, March 12–Jul 16, 2017 New Orleans Museum of Art, Octoer 5, 2017–Januar 7, 2018

Along with Civil War images, pictures of the American West have long dominated the canon of 19th-centur American landscape photograph, ut scant attention has een given to man of the photographers working in the eastern half of the United tates. ast of the Mississippi is the first exhiition to focus exclusivel on this rich chapter of America’s photographic histor. 175 works—including daguerreotpes, salted paper prints, alumen prints, stereo cards, and alums—show landscapes ranging from dramatic views of Niagara Falls and picturesque scenes in the White Mountains to devastated Civil War attlefields and the construction of the Atlantic & Great Western Railwa. A full illustrated catalog further explores the work of approximatel 50 photographers, highlighting their practices and concerns.

The exhiition is curated  Diane Waggoner, curator of 19th-centur photographs, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington, in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art

Made possile through the generous support of the Trellis Fund. Additional funding is kindl provided  Kate and Wes Mitchell

Caption: Henr Peter osse, Construction of Rock and rush Dam, L.W. 1891, 1891, canotpe, Gift of Mar and Dan olomon

In the Tower: Theaster Gates: The Minor Arts National Galler of Art, Washington, March 5–eptemer 4, 2017

Over the past decade, American artist Theaster Gates (. 1973) has explored the uilt environment and the power of art and culture to transform experience. For the second exhiition in the reopened ast uilding Tower 3 galleries, Gates will present a new od of work—The Minor Arts— featuring several pieces created for the Galler. The installation will examine how discarded and ordinar ojects, including the floor of a Chicago high school gm and the archives of on magazine, acquire value through the stories we tell.

Organized  the National Galler of Art

Presented with support from the Tower Project of the National Galler of Art

The Urban Scene: 1920–1950 National Galler of Art, Washington, Feruar 26–August 6, 2017

American artists of the earl 20th centur sought to interpret the eaut, power, and anxiet of the modern age in diverse was. Through depictions of ustling cit crowds and reathtaking metropolitan vistas, 25 lack-and-white prints in this exhiition explore the spectacle of uran modernit. Prints  recognized artists such as Louis Lozowick and Reginald Marsh, as well as lesser-known artists including Mael Dwight, Gerald Geerlings, Victoria Hutson Huntle, Martin Lewis, and tow Wengenroth, are included in this exhiition.

The exhiition is curated  Charles Ritchie, associate curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Galler of Art.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: Howard Cook, Looking up roadwa, 1937, lithograph, National Galler of Art, Washington, Rea and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Rea and Dave Williams

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence Museum of Fine Arts, oston, August 9–Decemer 4, 2016 National Galler of Art, Washington, Feruar 5–June 4, 2017

Luca della Roia (1400-1483), a master sculptor in marle and ronze, invented a glazing technique for terracotta sculpture that positioned him as one of the most innovative artists of the 15th-centur. Toda, the sculptures created  Luca and his famil workshop retain their rilliant opaque whites, deep cerulean lues, and otanical greens, purples and ellows over modeling that makes them powerful, expressive examples of Italian Renaissance art. Resistant to weather and easil readale at a distance, Della Roia works were widel collected in the late 19th and earl 20th-centur  Americans traveling to Ital who sought to ring a piece of Renaissance Florence home. Della Roia: culpting with Color in Renaissance Florence will present some 40 works  Luca, his nephew Andrea (1435-1525), Andrea's sons, and the competing uglioni workshop, drawn chiefl from American collections ut also including major loans from Ital. Various sculptural tpes—Madonna and Child reliefs, portraits, architectural decorations, household statuettes and active full-scale figures—will illustrate the range and emotional appeal of Della Roia glazed ceramics. Technical analsis and conservation conducted at the Museum of Fine Arts, oston, the rookln Museum, the National Galler of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will provide new insight into how these groundreaking works were made. A richl illustrated ook, the first nglish-language overview of three generations of Della Roia sculpture, will accompan the exhiition.

Organized  the Museum of Fine Arts, oston, in association with the National Galler of Art, Washington.

Made possile  Altria Group on ehalf of te. Michelle Wine states, and  Marchesi Antinori .p.A. Major support is provided  all ngelhard Pingree and The Charles ngelhard Foundation, and the uff and William Cafritz Famil Foundation. Additional funding is provided  The xhiition Circle of the National Galler of Art

Caption: Andrea della Roia, Madonna and Child with Cheruim, c. 1485, glazed terracotta, National Galler of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam National Galler of Art, Washington, March 10, 2012–August 2017

The Dutch Golden Age ielded a unique stle of portraiture, which shows leaders of militar and civic organizations as though the had gathered together for a meal or a meeting, there emphasizing their personal interactions and shared responsiilities. Painted in 1642 and 1655, two large-scale group portraits  Govert Flinck (1615–1660) and artholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670) depict different sets of governors of the Kloveniersdoelen, the headquarters of one of Amsterdam's main militia companies.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

The exhiition is made possile  the Hata Foundation. This program is also supported, in part,  pulic funds from the Netherlands Cultural ervices and through the generosit of Mrs. Henr H. Weldon. Caption: Govaert Flinck, The Governors of the Kloveniersdoelen, 1642, oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on loan from the Cit of Amsterdam

Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830 National Galler of Art, Washington, Octoer 7, 2012–ongoing

One of the largest and most refined collections of earl American furniture in private hands―acquired over the course of four decades  George M. and Linda H. Kaufman―was promised to the National Galler of Art in Octoer 2010. This permanent installation on the Ground Floor of the West uilding highlights nearl 100 examples of the Kaufmans' earl American furniture and decorative arts, presented with a selection of porcelains as well as watercolors  Pierre Joseph Redouté also from the Kaufman Collection. National Galler paintings  such celerated American artists as Gilert tuart are integrated into the displa. The Kaufman gift dramaticall transforms the Galler's collection, augmenting its fine holdings of uropean decorative arts with equall important American works of art, and it is the first major displa of earl American decorative arts on continual pulic view in the nation's capital.

Organized  the National Galler of Art, Washington

Caption: John and/or Hugh Finla, Grecian couch, 1810-1840, walnut, cherr; white pine, poplar, cherr, National Galler of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman

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