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AUGUST 3 MONDAY 9 SUNDAY 18 TUESDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Sargent and His 1:00 Film: Invisible Cities 12:00 Gallery Talk: Romantic Contemporaries 4:00 Sunday Lecture: All Cities Great Landscape Painting in Britain See bottom panels for introductory and Small: Delft 2:30 Gallery Talk: Modern American and foreign language tours; see 4 TUESDAY 6:00 Films: Samson; Landscape after Sculpture: Calder, Segal, and Smith reverse side for complete film 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian Battle information. Renaissance Altarpieces 19 WEDNESDAY 10 MONDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Imaging Women 5 WEDNESDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Imaging Women in Nineteenth-Century French 1 SATURDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Saints and in Nineteenth-Century French Painting 12:30 Film: Signed: Sinners: Depictions of Women in Painting 12:30 Film: Painting the Town 1:30 Gallery Talk: Ernst Ludwig , 1400-1900 Kirchner: Paintings and Graphics 12:30 Film: Invisible Cities 11 TUESDAY 20 THURSDAY ; Kanal 2:00 Films: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Homage to 12:00 Gallery Talk: Romantic 6 THURSDAY Jacques Callot Landscape Painting in Britain 2 SUNDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 12:30 Film: Painting the Town 1:00 Film: Signed: Andrzej Wajda Renaissance Altarpieces 12 WEDNESDAY 2:30: Gallery Talk: Modern American 4:00 Sunday Lecture: All Cities Great 12:30 Film: Invisible Cities 12:00 Gallery Talk: Comparisons Sculpture: Calder, Segal, and Smith and Small: Aries 2:30 Gallery Talk: Art Since 1945 in Art: Portraits by David and Vigee- 6:00 Film: Ashes and Diamonds Lebrun 21 FRIDAY 7 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Romantic 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 13 THURSDAY Landscape Painting in Britain Georges Braque, Le Port, 1909, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Victoria Nebeker Coberly Renaissance Altarpieces 12:00 Gallery Talk: Homage to 12:30 Film: Painting the Town in memory of her son, John W. Mudd 12:30 Film: Invisible Cities Jacques Callot 6:00 Friday Lecture: All Cities Great 6:00 Friday Lecture: All Cities Great and Small: Edinburgh and Small: Delft 14 FRIDAY 26 WEDNESDAY 28 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Homage to 22 SATURDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Comparisons 12:00 Gallery Talk: Comparisons Jacques Callot 12:30 Film: Painting the Town 8 SATURDAY in Art: Portraits by David and Vigee- in Art: Portraits by David and Vigee- 12:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 6:00 Friday Lecture: All Cities Great 2:00 Film: Promised Land Lebrun Lebrun Renaissance Altarpieces and Small: London 12:30 Film: Christo in Paris 12:30 Film: Christo in Paris 12:30 Film: Invisible Cities 23 SUNDAY 2:00 Films: ; 15 SATURDAY 1:00 Film: Painting the Town 27 THURSDAY 29 SATURDAY Gallery Talk: Art Since 1945 2:00 Films: Siberian Lady Macbeth; 4:00 Sunday Lecture: All Cities Great 2:30 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Le Ventre 12:30 Film: Christo in Paris and Small: Edinburgh Legislatif" (The Legislative Belly) by 2:00 Film: 6:00 Films: The Wedding; The Daumier 16 SUNDAY Shadow Line 12:30 Film: Christo in Paris 30 SUNDAY 1:00 Film: Wild Wheels 1:00, 4:00 Film: Christo in Paris 4:00 Sunday Lecture: All Cities Great 25 TUESDAY 6:00 Film: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Portrait of a Lady, and Small: London 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Le Ventre dated 1789, National Gallery of Art, Samuel 6:00 Film: Legislatif" (The Legislative Belly) by H. Kress Collection Daumier

GALLERY TALKS Italian Renaissance Altarpieces Imaging Women in Nineteenth- INTRODUCTORY TOURS SPECIAL FRIDAY/SUNDAY FAMILY PROGRAM (60 minutes). Philip Leonard, Century French Painting (60 min­ LECTURES Tours and Lectures given by Introduction to the West Building Saturday and Sunday Lecturer. Meet at the West Building utes). Elizabeth Levine, Summer Education Department Lecturers. Collection August 8, 9; 1 1/2 hour program, Information Desk, August 4, 6, 7, 8 at Lecturer. Meet in the West Building All Cities Great and Small Monday through Saturday 1:30 and call for times and location. noon. Rotunda, August 10, 19 at noon. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Painting 3:00; Friday at 6:00 Given by National Gallery lecturers on Stories and Symbols, a program for and Graphics (60 minutes). Sunday 1:00 and 3:00 Fridays at 6:00 p.m., Sundays at 4:00 Saints and Sinners: Depictions Homage to Jacques Callot (60 min­ children ages six to nine accompanied Christopher With, head of Art West Building Rotunda p.m. in the East Building Large of Women in Western Painting, utes). Eric Denker, Lecturer. Meet by an adult, includes a guided tour hiformation Services. Meet at the East Auditorium on the Concourse Level of 1400-1900 (60 minutes). Frances at the East Building Art Information Introduction to the East Building of the special exhibition Art of the Building Art Information Desk, August the East Building. Feldman, Lecturer. Meet in the West Desk, August 11, 13, 14 at noon. Collection American Indian Frontier: The 1 at 1:30. Building Rotunda, August 5 at noon. Monday through Saturday 11:30 and AUGUST 2 Collecting of Chandler and Pohrt Comparisons in Art: Portraits by 1:30; Sunday 2:00 and 4:00 All Cities Great and Small: Aries and stories relating to objects in the Sargent and His Contemporaries Art since 1945 (60 minutes). Laili David and Vigee-Lebrun (45 min­ East Building, Art Information Desk Elizabeth Levine, Summer Lecturer exhibition by Stephen Fadden, an (60 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, Nasr, Guest Lecturer. Meet at the East utes). Paula Warrick, Lecturer. Akwesasne Mohawk of the Wolf Clan. Lecturer. Meet in the West Building AUGUST 7, 9 Building Art Information Desk, August Meet in the West Building Rotunda, The program is free, but enrollment is Rotunda, August 3 at noon. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS All Cities Great and Small: Delft 6, 8 at 2:30. noon. August 12, 26, 28 at Hollis Koons, Summer Lecturer limited and reservations are required. Foreign language tours of the perma­ To make a reservation or for infor­ Romantic Landscape Painting in nent collection are offered on Tues­ AUGUST 14. 16 mation call (202) 842-6249. Britain (60 minutes). Hollis Kooiis, days. Tours of the West Building are All Cities Great and Small: London Summer Lecturer. Meet in the West at noon and begin in the Rotunda of Philip L. Leonard, Lecturer 18, 20, 21 Building Rotunda, August the West Building. Tours of the East AUGUST 21,23 at noon. Building are at 2:00 and begin at the All Cities Great and Small: Edinburgh Art Information Desk of the East Philip L. Leonard, Lecturer Modern American Sculpture: Caldei\ Building. Segal, and Smith (60 minutes). Laili Nasr, Guest Lecturer. Meet at August 4: French the East Building Art Information August 11: Spanish Desk, August 18, 20 at 2:30. August 18: German August 25: Italian "Le Ventre Legislatif" (The Legislative Belly) by Honore Daumier (Gift of Lloyd Butler and Polly Kraft in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art) (30 minutes). SUNDAY CONCERTS Eric Denker, Lecturer. Meet in the The National Gallery concert series West Building Rotunda, August 25, will resume on October 4, with a 27 at noon. concert by the National Gallery Orchestra, George Manos, conductor.

John Singer Sargent, Repose, dated 1911, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Curt H. Reisinger Minnesota, Eastern Sioux Pipe Bo i, c. 1855, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase with funds from the state of Michigan, the city of Detroit, and the Founders Society CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITION Film Programs Reinstallation of the Art of the American Indian Frontier: East Building Auditorium West Building The Collecting of Chandler and Pohrt Beginning Saturday, August 1, a retro­ Permanent Collection through January 24, 1993 spective of films by the renowned East Building, Upper Eevel, North Bridge Polish director Andrzej Wajda will be Main Floor, West Building presented each weekend through the The National Gallery has newly The dramatic and dynamic character assembled by Milford G. Chandler end of September. Born in 1926 in reinstalled its renowned permanent of objects produced by Woodland (1889-1981) and Richard A. Pohrt northeastern , Wajda exper­ collection of Italian, Spanish, and Plains Indians in the nineteenth (b. 1911). Their commitment and ienced World War II, and as a young German, Flemish and Dutch, British, century is revealed in this exhibition knowledge have stemmed from their man worked at restoring paintings in American, and French painting and of 152 of the most important works associations with American Indians. local churches. He attended the Fine sculpture throughout the Main Floor from the unparalleled Chandler- Chandler established close relation­ Arts Academy in Cracow, and later of the West Building. In all, nearly Pohrt collection of American Indian ships with families among the the film school in Lodz where his one thousand works have been re­ art. Featured in Art of the American Potawatorni, Mesquakie, and Miami painter's eye clearly influenced his organized in refurbished galleries. Indian Frontier is a wide range of communities of the Midwest, while handling of the visual aspects of Land of Promise. Andrzej Wajda The new installation traces the decorative, utilitarian, and cere­ Pohrt formed attachments to the cinema. Mr. Wajda, who has just development of Western art in monial objects, including feather Gros Ventre of Fort Belknap, finished a term in the Polish Senate, Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Painting the Town: The Illusionistic approximately chronological order Reinstalled paintings from the American collection: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the headdresses; moccasins; leather and Montana. Shark (center) and two portraits by Gilbert Stuart will be present on the last weekend Wajda, 1958, 106 minutes); August Murals of Richard Haas (Amalie within each grouping of related textiles; beadwork; domestic items Co-curators of the exhibition are South Dakota, Metis-Sioux Man's Coat, such as cradles, trunks, bowls, and c. 1880, Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders of the series to discuss his latest 2 at 6:00. Rothschild, 1989, 56 minutes); works. Historical relationships elements have been adapted to mation guides are available in David W. Penney, of the Detroit work, The Horsehair Ring. The spoons; pipes; weaponry; and picto- Institute of Arts, and George P. Society Purchase with funds from Richard A. August 19 through 22 at 12:30, between artists have been clarified enhance the works of art. The col­ twenty-one galleries, as well as a Manoogian graphic engravings series has been organized in assoc­ Invisible Cities (Eugene Martin, August 23 at 1:00. by exhibiting their work as closelv as lection has been completely walking-tour booklet guiding visitors and drawings. Horse Capture, a member of the The exhibition is divided into two iation with the Embassy of Poland, 1991, 56 minutes); August 5 possible to that of their contempo­ relabeled, off the frames, with through the Gallery's collection of Gros Ventre tribe and former curator of Art and the Buffalo Bill Historical geographical sections: the Eastern the Polish Ministry of Culture and through 8 at 12:30, August 9 at The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda, raries. Also, painting and sculpture additional information and greater Renaissance art created in Florence. for the Plains Indian Museum at the Center with support from the Woodlands and the Art, Film Polski, American Univer­ 1:00. 1974, 165 minutes); August 22 at have been integrated in new ways. legibility; and summary labels have An Acoustiguide summary tour is Great Plains. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, National Endowment for the Human­ Each section is developed chronologi­ Wyoming. sity Media Center, and I'SIA. 2:00. As part of the two-year effort, been added at the entrances to each also available. The reinstallation The catalogue includes ities, the city of Detroit, the state of cally, beginning with the art of the color illustrations The Washington premiere of Lotna (Andrzej Wajda, 1959, 89 galleries have been repainted, many gallery. incorporates many recent acqui­ of 220 objects Michigan, and the Founders Society end of the fur trade era (1790-1850) from the collection, Invisible Cities^ a poetic photo­ minutes); Innocent Sorcerers The Wedding (Andrzej Wajda, 1973, with special glazes; new lighting has A new floor plan in color has been sitions, including Monet's Japanese historical Detroit Institute of Arts. After closing and closing with the era of relocation photographs, graphic study of several European (Andrzej Wajda, 1960, 86 minutes); 106 minutes); The Shadow Line been added; and architectural produced, and laminated infor­ Footbridge in gallery 85. and essays by Penney, at the Gallery (January 24, 1993), and American cities at the end of the August 8 at 2:00. (Andrzej Wajda, 1976, 110 and confinement to reservations Horse Capture, Chandler, and Pohrt. the exhibition will travel to the (1830-1900). This is the fifth A 17-minute video on the twentieth century by Philadelphia minutes); August 23 at 6:00. ranging from a Renaissance drawing Seattle Art Museum (March 11- Diirer to Diebenkorn: exhibition devoted entirely to North formation of the Chandler-Pohrt filmmaker Eugene Martin, is Samson (Andrzej Wajda, 1961, 117 by Vittore Carpaccio to contem­ May 9, 1993), the Buffalo Bill American Indian art to be held at the collection accompanies the exhibition. scheduled for August 5 through 9. minutes); Landscape after Battle Christo in Paris (Albert Maysles, Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper porary prints by Eucian Freud and Historical Center (June 18- National Gallery since 1943. The exhibition was organized Wild Wheels^ a new documentary on (Andrzej Wajda, 1970, 109 1990, 58 minutes); August 26 Joan Mitchell. The exhibition also September 12, 1993), and the through September 7, 1992 The Chandler-Pohrt collection of by the Detroit Institute of Arts in American car art, will be introduced minutes); August 9 at 6:00. through 29 at 12:30, August 30 at highlights works from important Detroit Institute of Arts (October 17, West Building, Central Gallery more than four thousand objects was association with the National Gallerv by filmmaker Harrod Blank on 1:00 and 4:00. graphic collections that have come 1993-February 6, 1994). August 16 at 1:00. Siberian Lady Macbeth (Andrzej Continuing the celebration of the Ark (c. 1655): Rembrandt's first recently to the Gallery: the Woodner Wajda, 1962, 94 minutes); The Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, Gallery's permanent collection, this illustrated book, In Praise of Family collection of old master Signed: Andrzej Wajda (Andrzej Birch Wood (Andrzej Wajda, 1970, 1976, 165 minutes); August 29 at exhibition comprises a selection of Seafaring (1634); Thomas drawings (Albrecht Diirer, Hans Brzozowski, 1988, 60 minutes); 99 minutes); August 15 at 2:00. 2:00. drawings, prints, photographs, and Gainsborough's Woods Near a Holbein, Andrea del Sarto, Francisco CLOSING EXHIBITIONS August 1 at 12:30, August 2 at 1:00. illustrated books that were acquired Village (1750s); Ernst Eudwig Goya); the O'Neal collection of Wild Wheels (Harrod Blank, 1992, Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda, 1981, in 1991. The 114 objects survey Kirchner's Girls from Fehmarn drawings (Cherubino Alberti, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo Gardner Museum in Boston, along A Generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955, 64 minutes); August 16 at 1:00. 156 minutes); August 30 at 6:00. high points (1913); Francisco Ribalta); the Marcy family over five centuries, and a monumental untitled with related works from public and 90 minutes); Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, including such master works as figure drawing by Eric Fischl collection of works by Eovis Corinth; through August 2, 1992 private collections. The conservation 1957, 97 minutes); August 1 at 2:00 Everything for Sale (Andrzej Wajda, Giovanni (1991). the Milton Avery archive; the Crown Benedetto Castiglione's The Gallery's most impor­ East Building, Mezzanine and exhibition of El Jaleo have been 1968, 105 minutes); August 16 at 6:00. Noah Leading the Animals into the tant recent purchases are included, Point Press collection (Richard Recorded Tours El Jaleo, one of the most brilliantly paintings and forty drawings and made possible by grants from Diebenkorn, William Wiley); and the accomplished works of John Singer watercolors in the exhibition trace NYNEX Foundation and New Permanent Collection Vogel collection of minimalist art Sargent's career, is the centerpiece of Sargent's creative evolution in por­ England Telephone. The Director's Tour, narrated by (Robert Mangold, Christo). Special Installation New Guides for the this focus exhibition. The magnif­ traying the Spanish dance theme, a After closing at the Gallery on J. Carter Brown, features master­ The catalogue for the exhibition icent painting depicts a gypsy dancer process culminating in the dynamic August 2, several of the works from Sol EeWitt's Wall Drawing #307. Permanent Collection pieces from the fifteenth through the was written by Gallery staff members performing to musical accompani­ El Jaleo. the exhibition will be on view in Blue Circles, Red Grid, Yellow Arcs early twentieth century and includes Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon The new laminated gallery guides for ment. The theatrical lighting in the Restored by recent cleaning to the Boston at the Isabella Stewart from Four Corners, Black Arcs from some of the Gallery s best-loved senior curator; Margaret Morgan the permanent collection in English large composition, measuring eight full immediacy of its color and Gardner Museum, September 10 the Midpoints of Four Sides (1977) paintings. Tapes may be rented in Grasselli, curator of old master draw­ and five other languages are being by eleven feet, adds to the drama of brushwork, El Jaleo is on loan for the through November 22, 1992. has been drawn on a 10 x 20 foot the Rotunda on the Main Floor of the ings; Sarah Greenough, curator of evaluated to improve their usefulness the exotic subject. Seven related first time from the Isabella Stewart wall on the Ground Floor of the East West Building. to our visitors. You may fill out photographs; Ruth E. Fine, curator Building. LeWitt, a pioneer of con­ of modern prints and drawings; and comment cards about the guides at Special Exhibition ceptual art, issues written instruc­ Judith Brodie, assistant curator in the the Main Floor Art Information Art of the American Indian Frontier: tions for the execution of each of his department of prints and drawings. Kathe Kollwitz insight into Kollwitz' mastery of her Ernst Ludwig Desk, where a map showing the The Collecting of Chandler and wall drawings. Two assistants from media and trace her progress as a galleries in which new guides have Pohrt. narrated by David Penney through August 16, 1992 Kirchner: Paintings, his studio drafted Wall gifted and technically inventive been placed is available and George Horse Capture, co- East Building, Mezzanine Drawing #307, which will be on artist. Drawings, and Prints Initiated in conjunction with the curators of the exhibition, outlines Homage to Jacques view through September 1992. It is Celebrated for the powerful social Elizabeth Prelinger, assistant reinstallation of the permanent American Indian art of the Eastern through August 16, 1992 the first object displayed from the Callot content of her imagery, German professor of fine arts at Georgetown collections for the National Gallery's Woodlands and the Great Plains. East Building, Upper Eevel Gallery's recently acquired Vogel artist Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) University, is the curator for the exhi­ fiftieth anniversary in 1992, the Tapes may be rented at the entrance John Ruskin, The \.,unn-n uj San Miiuato near Florence^ 1845, Patrons' Permanent Fund through September 7, 1992 Collection. became known in this country bition, in consultation with Judith Forty-one paintings, drawings, and guide program has received support to the exhibition, East Building East Building, Ground Floor during the 1930s and was even more Brodie, assistant curator in the prints by the German expressionist from Knight Foundation. Upper Level. Reinstallation of Twentieth- Century Art This selective exhibition of eighty- widely acclaimed following World department of prints and drawings. artist Ernst Eudwig Kirchner Recorded tours are $3.50; Senior two prints by Jacques Callot honors War II. Her moving depictions of A fully illustrated catalogue in­ (1880-1938) are on view in the East through Citizens, students, and groups $3.00 December 31, 1992 the four-hundredth anniversary of injustice, poverty, and war struck a cludes essays by Prelinger, Building, complementing the exhi­ East Building Concourse, Upper Level, and Tower the birth of this master etcher and resonant chord during those troubled Alessandra Comini of Southern bition Kathe Kollwitz. Kirchner and years and earned her an extensive Methodist University, his fellow members of Die Brticke The National Gallery has mounted a as Jasper Johns, Rov Eichtenstein, engraver whose work influenced later and Hildegard and devoted audience. However, her Bachert, were committed to creating works new installation of twentieth-century Rarnett Newman, Mark Rothko, printmakers including Rembrandt. a leading expert on modern Current Exhibition Catalogues remarkable artistic skills have gone German art. The exhibition will not that would expressively portray the art that includes works acquired Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Patronized by the ducal courts in Tuscany and Eorraine for most of his largely unattended. The present exhi­ travel. world around them the human John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo Diirer to Diebenkorn: Recent during its recent fiftieth-anniversary The upper level features art from life, Callot at twenty-two became bition aims to correct that imbalance The exhibition is made possible figure, nature, the city, and contem­ $29.95 Acquisitions of Art on Paper year and major loans from private the beginning of the century to court artist to the Medici in Florence. by focusing specifically on the by Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler- porary life through vigorous $24.00 collections. World War II, with works by Rraque, His depictions of theatrical perfor­ artistic aspect of her achievement. Benz, The Deutsche Bank Group, brushwork and bright colors. Kathe Kollwitz Post-1945 European and Rrancusi, Gorky, Magritte, Matisse, mances, court festivals, and warfare Included in this exhibition of Mannesmann, Miles Inc., Siemens, The prints on display come from $27.50 Available from the National Gallery American art is shown in fourteen Miro, Modigliani, and Picasso among brilliantly convey the social and approximately one hundred draw­ Thyssen AG, and the Federal the collection of the National Gallery, Publications Service rooms on the Concourse level, com­ others. Fourteen works of sculpture ings, prints, works of sculpture are a Republic of Germany. The National while the paintings and drawings prising survey galleries devoted to bv David Smith are displayed in the political climate of the early baroque Art of the American Indian Frontier: Sales Information (202) 842-6466 include not only works belonging to terraced skylit tower gallery, period. wide range of moving self-portraits Gallery is grateful to Eufthansa The Chandler-Pohrt Collection Mailorder (301)322-5900 European expressionism, American The works are from the National and exquisite works in color that German Airlines for its transpor­ the Gallery but also major loans Wisconsin, Menominee (?) Shoulder Bag., , color-field reminiscent of the amphitheater of $32.00 counter her reputation as a mono­ tation support of the exhibition. from private American collections. 1800-1830, The Detroit Institute of Arts, painting, , and recent the Italian industrial town, Spoleto, Gallery's collection of more than one chromatic artist. Preparatory draw­ Kathe Kollwitz is supported by an The works provide a concentrated Founders Society Purchase. New Endow­ acquisitions, including the new where his works were dramatically thousand Callot prints and were ment Fund, General Endowment Fund, and ings and working proofs, many never indemnity from the Federal Council survey of Kirchner's achievement. Braque Le Port. A series of galleries installed for the 1962 Spoleto selected by H. Diane Russell, curator J. Lawrence Buell, Jr., Fund before exhibited in the U.S., lend on the Arts and the Humanities. is devoted to individual artists such Festival. of old master prints at the Gallery. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 GENERAL INFORMATION The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the of America. European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis. Admission is free at all times. HOURS Monday through Thursday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. through September 4 Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. TTY#: (202) 842-6176 The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The nearest Metro stops are Judiciary Square on the Red Line, Archives on the Yellow Line, and Smithsonian on the Blue/Orange Line. Metrobus stops are located on 4th Street and 7th Street. The East and West Buildings are connected by an all-weather underground passage with a moving walkway. 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COVER: Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Victoria Nebeker Coberly, in memory of her son John W. Mudd, and Walter H. and Lenore Annenberg