National Gallery of Art

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Calendar of Events July 1983

Tours and Paintings Introductory Films Sunday Sunday MONDAY, of the Week Tours Lectures Concerts June 27 through Andrea del Castagno Introduction to the West Gauguin in Tahiti: The The Muse Polyhymnia: Honoring the Bicentennial SUNDAY, The Youthful David Building's Collection Search for Paradise Religion and the of the Treaty of Paris July 3 (Widener Collection) Mon. through Sat. 11:00 (51 min.) Visual Arts National Gallery & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Orchestra Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Richard Bales, Conductor & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda The Quiet Collector John Russell Sale Martha Steiger Ellison, (career of Andrew W. Staff Lecturer Soprano West Building Introduction to the East Mellon 30 min.) National Gallery of Art West Building Gallery 4 Building's Collection Tues. through Fri. 2:30 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Sunday 4:00 East Garden Court 7:00 Legacy: Sun. 2:30 Remembered (58 min.) This program concludes East Building East Building Sun. 6:00 the Gallery's concerts for Ground Floor Lobby Auditorium the season. They will East Building resume on October 2, 1983. Auditorium MONDAY, J.-B.-S. Chardin Introduction to the West Pursuit of the Marvelous: The Muse Calliope: July 4 The House of Cards Building's Collection The Persistence of Epic Poetry and the through (Andrew W. Mellon Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Surrealism (90 min.) Visual Arts SUNDAY, Collection) & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 July 10 West Building & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Rotunda Gail Feigenbaum & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 The Quiet Collector Staff Lecturer Introduction to the East (career of Andrew W. National Gallery of Art West Building Building's Collection Mellon 30 min.) Gallery 53 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:30 Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 East Building Legacy: Andrew Mellon East Building Ground Floor Lobby Remembered (58 min.) Auditorium Sun. 6:00

East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, Bernhard Strigel Introduction to the West Homage to Magritte The Muse Thalia: July 11 Saint Mary Salome Building's Collection (10 min.), Comedy and the through and Her Family Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Kay Sage (20 min.), and Visual Arts SUNDAY, (Samuel H. Kress & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Max Ernst (11 min.) July 17 Collection) West Building Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Speaker: Rotunda & 6:00; Sat. 12:30 Donna Mann Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Sun. 1:00 Staff Lecturer & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Introduction to the East Macbeth (with Orson National Gallery of Art Building 5 Collection Welles, 1948 115 min.) West Building Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Sat. 2:30 & 6:00 Sunday 4:00 Gallery 35 Sun. 2:30 The Quiet Collector East Building (career of Andrew W. East Building Ground Floor Lobby - Mellon 30 min.) Auditorium Tues. through Fri. 2:30 Sun. 6:00 East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, Georges de La Tour Introduction to the West Goya: The Disasters of The Muse Melpomene: July 18 The Repentant Magdalen Building's Collection War (13 min.) and Tragedy and the through (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund) Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Daumier, Paris, and Visual Arts SUNDAY, & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 the Spectator (18 min.) July 24 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Speaker: & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda & 6:00; Sat. 12:30 William J. Williams Sun. 1:00 Staff Lecturer West Building Introduction to the East Hamlet (with Laurence National Gallery of Art Gallery 52 Building's Collection Olivier, 1948 158 min.) Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Sat. 2:30 & 6:00 Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 The Quiet Collector East Building (career of Andrew W. East Building Ground Floor Lobby Mellon 30 min.) Auditorium Tues. through Fri. 2:30 Sun. 6:00 East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, Gerrit Berckheyde Introduction to the West The Landscape of The Muse Erato: July 25 Town Hall of Amsterdam Building's Collection Pleasure (52 min.) Love and the through (Lent by the Rijksmuseum, Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Visual Arts SUNDAY, Amsterdam) & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 & 6:00; Sat. 12:30 July 31 West Building Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Rotunda Christopher With L 'Age & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 d'or (by Luis Staff Lecturer Bunuel, 1930 60 Introduction to the East min.) National Gallery of Art West Building Building's Collection Sat. 2:30 & 6:00 Gallery 50 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 The Quiet Collector Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 (career of Andrew W. East Building Mellon 30 min.) East Building Ground Floor Lobby Tues. through Fri. 2:30 Auditorium Sun. 6:00 East Building Auditorium National Gallery of Art Gallery Hours: The Gallery is open 10 a.m. Washington, D.C. 20565 to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Sunday hours remain the same throughout the year: 12 noon to 9 p.m.

Sunday Lectures The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th The nine classical muses are the inspiration Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The The telephone number for general information for Sunday lectures during July and August. East and West Buildings are connected by an is (202) 737-4215. Each lecture explores the realm of a single. all-weather underground passage with a muse in the visual arts. The slide lectures will moving walkway. Entrances to the West be presented each week at 4:00 p.m. in the Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Free tours on any subject appropriate to the East Building auditorium. See listings Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has Gallery's collections or exhibitions may be for details. a ramp for the handicapped, and off 4th arranged for groups of fifteen or more people Street. The entrance to the East Building is and by booking at least two weeks in advance. on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza Call (202) 842-6246. also has a ramp for the handicapped.

Exhibitions July 1983

Opening This Month Jean Arp: The Dada Reliefs Images in the July 3-October 31, 1983 construction and final painting. animal, and human Ground Level reliefs range from plant, East Building forms to purely abstract shapes. from Arp's The medium of the constructed relief played Automatic drawings and collages indicate their a central role in the work of Jean Arp Dada years are included, to Five other reliefs (1886-1966), one of the founders, in 1916, of relationship to the reliefs. exhibited, demon­ Zurich Dada. Reliefs made between 1915 and from the 1920s are also ideas into 1922 are on view illustrating Arp's experi­ strating Arp's extension of Dada ments with the Dada concepts of chance and his later work. automatism in a variety of materials. E.A. Carmean, Jr., Curator of Twentieth- exhibition and Automatism the unpremeditated making of Century Art, organized this brochure. art which attempts to reveal images from the prepared an accompanying unconscious was the central creative principle of Zurich Dada. Many of the shapes in Arp's reliefs were probably derived from automatic drawings. These were translated into wooden forms and then assembled, often JEAN ARP. Forest with the element of chance as a factor in their National Gallery of Art

Continuing Frliihifions

The Whitney Collection of art in Through October 2, 1983 Mr. Whitney began collecting works the collection was Upper Level and Mezzanine the 1920s; the majority of following World War II. East Building formed in the years It has been exhibited as a collection only of the late John Hay From the collection partially once before, at the Tate Gallery in Betsey Gushing Whitney and his wife, London in 1960, at the close of Mr. Whitney's paintings Whitney, these seventy-three term as Ambassador to the Court of nineteenth- and include works by such Saint James's. twentieth-century masters as van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Monet, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Bellows, and Hopper. Of particular interest are an unsurpassed group of colorful fauve paintings by Braque, Derain, and others; an important group of pointillist paintings; and nine paintings by Picasso which illustrate his extraordinary range. . Head of a Sleeping Woman The , New York, Estate of John Hay Whitney 1983

Five Surrealists from the Menil Collections exhibition is Magritte's Through September 28, 1983 One highlight of the Madame Recamier, in Concourse bronze sculpture, on an eighteenth-century East Building which a coffin rests chaise longue. This represents Magritte's Chirico, with The paintings of Giorgio de sardonic comment on the academic tradition of ordinary their mysterious combinations in art, epitomized by Jacques-Louis David's objects, were an and seemingly unrelated 1800 portrait of Madame Recamier. important influence on image-oriented L'Age d'or will be surrealist artists. The extraordinary On July 30, Luis Bunuel's auditorium. This juxtaposition of ordinary objects became a shown in the East Building of classic surrealist guiding principle of surrealist iconography. film is the first in a series month. Other Works by de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Yves cinema which will continue next will be Tanguy, Max Ernst, and Victor Brauner on films on surrealism and the surrealists July 4 and July 11. view here demonstrate this principle as well shown during the weeks of as their experiments with different creative See reverse side for details. techniques to achieve dreamlike images derived from the unconscious. RENE MAGRITTE. Madame Recamier Menil Collections

Lucas van Leyden Night Prints and His Contemporaries Through October 9, 1983 Ground Floor Galleries Through August 14, 1983 West Building Ground Floor Galleries West Building This is the first major exhibition dealing with nocturnes in prints. It is arranged Lucas van Leyden was one of the foremost thematically in nine sections, each devoted to painters and printmakers to work in the subjects developed by graphic artists making Netherlands during the first half of the night prints. The one hundred works on view sixteenth century. Fine impressions of Lucas' include examples by Diirer, Rembrandt, engravings, etchings, and woodcuts are very Delacroix, Goya, Degas, and Whistler, rare and widely dispersed. In bringing them among others. together for comparative study, this exhibition establishes new standards for evaluating his achievement in graphic media. After its premiere in Washington, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 14-November 20, 1983). LUCAS VAN LEYDEN. Two Boys with a Helmet and a Standard Musee du Petit Palais, Paris