National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS January 1989 ..._. _?NHIGHLi_. December 27-January 1 January 3-January 8 January 10-January 15 January 17-January 22 January 24-January 29

Brief gallery talks given by Education Morris Louis Wassily Kandinsky }ean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Isack van Ostade Chuck Close Department lecturers on a single work of Beta Kappa Improvisa tion 31 Forest at Fontainebleau The Halt at the Inn Fanny/Fingerpain ting art. Reproductions of the work discussed (Gift of Marcella (Ailsa Melloh'Bruce Fund) (Chester Dale Collection) (Widener Collection) (Gift of Lila Acheson may be purchased in the Gallery's sales Louis Brenner) East Building West Building West Building Wallace) shops; a written text is available without East Building Upper Level Gallery 93 Gallery 49 East Building charge. Concourse Level Concourse Level Kathleen A. Walsh, Lecturer Marilyn Brockway; Lecturer Dennis Weller, Lecturer Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Wilford W. Scott, Lecturer Julie Springer, Lecturer Sunday 2:00 p.m. (There will be no talk (Gallery will be closed Inauguration Day, fan. 20) New Year's Day, Jan. 1)

December 27-January 1 January 3-January 8 January 10-January 15 January 17-January 22 January 24-January 29

One-hour thematic tours given by Introduction to the Masterpieces of Italian : The Shaping of Places of Delight: The Art of Paolo Education Department lecturers. West Building Collections Renaissance Painting Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 The Pastoral Landscape Veronese 1528-1588 Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda East Building West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Sunday 2:30 p.m. Ground Floor Lobby Education Department Staff Jill Steinberg, Lecturer Philip Leonard, Lecturer Frances Feldman, Lecturer Susan R. Arensberg, Lecturer (Gallery will be closed (There will be no tour New Year's Day, Jan. 1) Inauguration Day, Jan. 20)

December 27-December 31 January 4-January 8 January 11-January 15 January 18-January 22 January 25-January 29

Free films on art and feature films related (NHK, 1970, Daimyo (National Gallery A.K. (portrait of Akira The Blind Swordsman Important Information to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are 25 min.) and The World of Art, 1988, 30 min.) Kurosawa by Chris Marker, (John Nathan, 1978, Inside: John F. Peto and available on a first-come, first-served basis. of the Heike Monogatari Wed. through Sat. 12:30 1985, 70 min., subtitled) 58 min., subtitled) the Idea of Still-Life East Building Auditorium (Gakken Productions, Sun. 1:00 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sat. 12:30; Sun. 1:00 Painting (National Gallery 1969, 27 min.) Sun. 1:00 of Art, 1984, 28 min.) and Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Harakiri (Masaki Daimyo (National Gallery Winslow Homer: The Nature Kobayashi, 1962, 135 min., The Third Shadow Samurai of Art, 1988, 30 min.) of the Artist (National Daimyo (National Gallery subtitled; introduction) (Umetsugu Inoue, 1963, Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Gallery of Art, 1986, 29 min.) of Art, 1988, 30 min.) Sat. 2:00 105 min., subtitled) Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Tues. through Thurs. 2:00 Fri. 3:00; Sat. 3:00 Sun. 1:00 Sat. 12:30 The River Fuefuki (, 1985, (, the Shadow 121 min., subtitled) Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Kwaidan (, 1960, 117 min., Warrior (, Thurs. 3:00; Sat. 2:00 Godard, 1965, 112mm., 1964, 160 min., subtitled) subtitled) 1980, 159 min., subtitled; introduction) Fri. 2:00 Fri 3:00; Sun. 6:00 subtitled; introduction) Samurai Banners Sat. 2:00; Sun. 6:00 Sun. 6:00 (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1969, (Masahiro 160 min., subtitled) Shinoda, 1969, 140 min., Fri. 3:00 Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, 1962, to subtitled; introduction) be shown January 7 Sat. 2:00 Meets (, 1970, 116 min., subtitled) Sun. 6:00

January 1 January 8 January 15 January 22 January 29

Free lectures given -by distinguished visiting (Gallery will be closed Bierstadt's Painting Method Pastoral Possibilities: Art and Power: The Daimyo Cezanne before 1872 scholars. No reservations needed but New Year's Day, Jan. 1) in His Yosemite Pictures Meaning in the Landscape as Patron of the Arts in seating is limited. Feudal Japan Sir Lawrence Gowing Sunday 4:00 p.m. Ross Merrill David Rosand Art Historian East Building Auditorium Conservator Professor of Art History Martin Collcutt London, England National Gallery of Art Columbia University Professor of East Asian New York Studies and History Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

January 1 January 8 January 15 January 22 January 29

Free concerts by the National Gallery (Gallery will be closed National Gallery Orchestra Thomas Schumacher, Piano The Whitney Trio Brian Ganz, Piano Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. New Year's Day, Jan. 1) George Manos, Conductor Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Works by Beethoven, Works by Beethoven, Works by Beethoven, All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS Traditional New Year Scriabin, and Chopin Kirchner, and Dutilleux, and Vlahapoulos 570 AM and 103.5 FM. Viennese Gala Concert Mendelssohn Sunday 7:00p.m. West Building, West Garden Court National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITION CLOSING EXHIBITIONS

Film Programs Survey Course on Western Art Cezanne: The Early Years Japan: The Shaping The series "Jidai-Geki: Images of the Daimyo The Education Department continues the 1859-1872 of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 Age in Japanese Cinema" continues through survey course on the history of Western art. January 29-April 30, 1989 Through January 23, 1989 January 22 with both recent and classic films This fourteen-part series examines the West Building, Main Floor East Building by Japan's most distinguished directors. development of painting and sculpture from Included this month is the Washington the ancient world to the twentieth century. Coming to the National Gallery from The Mezzanine and Upper Level premiere of Masahiro Shinoda's Gonza the Lectures by Education staff will be held in Royal Academy of Arts in London and the More than 500 works of art from Japanese Spearman (1985). Japanese film specialist the East Building auditorium at 10:15 on Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this exhibition is the collections, including an unprecedented Michael Jeck will introduce Kobayashi's Monday mornings. This free program is open first to examine the formative years of Paul number of loans designated as National Harakiri (1962) on January 7. On January 15, to the public but seating is limited. There Cezanne, a key figure in the impressionist Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, Dr. Yoji Kondo will introduce and lead a will be two lectures in January: and post-impressionist movements. The and Important Art Objects, represent the Teabowl Stand, Eisei Bunko, post-screening discussion of Akira exhibition presents 72 works executed January 9 Baroque Art great daimyo families' contribution to Kurosawa's Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior between 1859 and 1872, the least-known the middle ages January 23 Neoclassicism and Japan's artistic heritage from (1980). A.K., Chris Marker's 1985 documen­ period in the career of an artist whose work Romanticism Paul Cezanne, Paul Alexis Reading to Emile Zola, to the mid-nineteenth century. The daimyo tary about director Kurosawa, will be shown indisputably contains the origins of modern c. 1869-1870, Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo (translated "great names" and pronounced art. This show attempts to expand under­ January ii through 15. "dye-meo") were powerful members of the For further information, please call standing of one of the most extraordinary On Saturday, January 28, a special warrior class and served the shoguns or 842-3472. presentation of Pierrot le Fou (1965) will open Gallery Talks figures in the history of art, who was greatly military rulers of Japan. Included in the a ten-part film and lecture program "Image as influenced by tradition and by literary [1986-1987] and until recently the curatorial exhibition are portrait paintings, painted Sally Shelburne, Graduate Lecturing Fellow, PASS INFORMATION Language: Films and Videos by Jean-Luc subject matter early on, and in turn was a chairman of The Phillips Collection, screens and sliding door panels, calligraphy, will discuss "Van Dyck's English Portraits" at Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture Godard." The series examines the ways in great inspiration to his contemporaries as Washington). The exhibition is accompanied swords, lacquer, ceramics, domestic textiles, 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, January^. Meet at 1185-1868. Passes for the daimyo exhibition which filmmaker Godard questions formal well as Braque, Picasso, and later artists. by a scholarly full-color catalogue with No masks, musical instruments and robes, the West Building Rotunda. Ms. Shelburne are distributed as necessary on a first-come, distinctions between art, literature, photog­ Selected from public and private collec­ detailed entries by Gowing, a foreword by and tea utensils. will discuss "Rothko in Transition," on first-served basis. Passes are for specified raphy, and film. Later showings in the series tions in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, John Rewald, and additional essays by noted Organized by the National Gallery, Wednesday, January 18, and Wednesday, entry times on the half-hour. Advance consider Godard's work in relation to such and the United States, the exhibition has scholars and curators. The exhibition is Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and The January 25, at 2:00 p.m. Meet at the East reservations may be made at the special pass twentieth-century artists as Jasper Johns and been organized by the eminent British art supported in part by Gerald D. Hines Japan Foundation, the exhibition is made Building Ground Floor Information Desk. desk on the Ground Floor of the East Robert Rauschenberg. For additional historian and painter Sir Lawrence Gowing Interests. Additional support is provided by possible by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Gregor Kalas, Graduate Lecturing Fellow, Building. Passes acquired in person at the information, please see the reverse side. (Kress Professor at the Gallery's Center for an indemnity from the Federal Council on Company, The Yomiuri Shimbun, The will discuss "Landscape as Artistic National Gallery are free of charge. Passes Advanced Study in the Visual Arts the Arts and the Humanities. Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., and an indem­ Inspiration: Reinventing Pastoral Settings may also be obtained at all TicketCenter nity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Subjects," at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, outlets or by calling TicketCenter: and the Humanities. January 7, Wednesday, January n, and In conjunction with the exhibition, Washington (202) 432-0200 Saturday, January 21. Meet at the West several educational events are planned to Baltimore (301) 381-6000 Building Rotunda. enhance the public's understanding of the Richmond (804) 780-3777 Toll Free (800) 448-9009 Twentieth-Century Art: daimyo period (for schedules of related films Nationwide and lectures, see reverse side). An authentic (for out-of-state calls) Selections for the Tenth Anniversary Japanese tea house and garden have been There is a TicketCenter service charge for Gonza the Spearman, directed by Masahiro Shinoda, 1985, of the East Building constructed in the East Building. Visitors passes ordered through outlets ($1.50) or by to be shown January 19 and 21 Through December 31, 1990 will have an opportunity to participate in a phone ($2.00). Advance passes are not avail­ East Building tea ceremony performed by Japanese tea able by phone or mail from the National Family Programs Current Exhibition Catalogues masters. The Art of the Tea Ceremony is Gallery. Concourse, Upper Level, and Tower made possible by The Asahi Shimbun, the The Art of the Tea Ceremony. A limited The Education Department is offering three Raphaelle Peale S till Lifes $ 14. oo Yabunouchi School of Tea, The Nomura number of same-day passes will be available special family programs during the month of 1988 marks the tenth anniversary of the East Securities Co., Ltd., and All Nippon at the Gallery's East Building each weekday January related to the exhibition Japan: The Japan: The Shaping of Building of the National Gallery of Art. To Airways. and Saturday morning for the duration of the Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868. On Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 $27.50 celebrate this anniversary, a series of 23 new A half-hour film produced by the exhibition. A 30-minute tea ceremony will Saturday, January 7, Nanae Momiyama, galleries have been designed and built to Places of Delight: National Gallery, Daimyo, is being shown in be given at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thurs­ Japanese calligrapher, will demonstrate the accommodate a greatly expanded reinstal- The Pastoral Landscape $19.95 lation of the twentieth-century collections, the East Building small auditorium, Monday days, and Saturdays and at noon every day art of calligraphy, especially as related to the through Saturday, hourly beginning atn:oo Monday through Saturday. Same-day passes exhibition. The demonstration will be Michelangelo Draftsman $16.95 complemented by a number of major loans Henri Matisse, Pianist and Checker Players, 1924, National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and with the final showing at 4:00; Sundays, will be available at the pass desk each followed by a tour. On Saturday, January 14 from private collections. The upper level Michelangelo Architect $16.95 Mrs. Paul Mellon hourly fromroo to 6:00. Support for this Sunday of the exhibition for 15- minute tea and 21, Howard Hamilton, M.D., Master of includes art from the beginning of the film has been provided by Tobishima demonstrations beginning at 3:00 p.m., the Kita School of No, Hiroshima, will A Dictionary of century to World War II, with groupings of Corporation. 3:30 p.m., and4:oo p.m. explain No masks and demonstrate their use Michelangelo's Wa termarks $5-95 works by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, The Art of Paolo Veronese Brancusi, and Gorky, among others. in No drama. A tour of the exhibition will The Art ofPaolo Veronese $19.95 1528-1588 follow. Participants are asked to meet in the Fourteen sculptures by David Smith are The Pastoral Landscape: small auditorium in the East Building at displayed in the skylit space of the tower Through February 20, 1989 Available from the gallery. Postwar European and American art The Legacy of Venice Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes 10:00 a.m. for the above programs, which are National Gallery Publication Service West Building, Main Floor free of charge and last an hour and a half. can be seen on the concourse level. Special Through January 22, 1989 Through January 29, 1989 Sales Information (202) 842-6466 This exhibition commemorates the 4OOth Children must be accompanied by an adult. galleries are devoted to Barnett Newman's Mail Orders (202) 842-6465 anniversary of the death of one of the most West Building, Central Gallery East Building, Ground Floor Please call (202) 842-6249 for reservations. Stations of the Cross, Matisse's paper cutouts, and classic paintings by Mark important sixteenth-century artists, Paolo The Pastoral Landscape, a two-part This is the first exhibition devoted solely to Rothko. Other galleries display concentra­ Caliari, known as Veronese. The fifty exhibition on view at the National Gallery the still lifes of the nineteenth-century tions of works by Giacometti and Dubuff et, paintings and fifty-four drawings on loan and The Phillips Collection, traces the origin American artist Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825). the New York School abstract expressionists, from public and private collections world­ of this artistic tradition from sixteenth- Thirty-two of his most important paintings as well as several contemporary masters: wide illustrate every aspect of Veronese's century Venice to the present day. The are on view, including After the Bath, one of Diebenkorn, Kelly, Johns, Rauschenberg, career. Renowned as one of the greatest Legacy of Venice, on view at the National the masterpieces of illusionism. Introduction to the Recorded Tour of West Building Warhol, and Lichtenstein. colorists of all time, Veronese painted works Gallery, highlights the work of Venetian An auxiliary group of paintings by other West Building Collections A recorded tour of the West Building Two publications have been produced by famous for their visual splendor, their Renaissance masters and their influence on members of the Peale family includes the the luminosity, and the jewel-like opulence of Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. collections, narrated by J. Carter Brown, is the National Gallery in conjunction with European artists of the seventeenth and National Gallery's Rubens Peale with a Sunday 5:30 p.m. available at the Ground Floor sales area. exhibition. One book, made possible by The their silvered brocades. eighteenth centuries. At The Phillips Geranium by Rembrandt Peale. After its West Building, Rotunda Charles E. Smith Companies and The Artery The exhibition, which will not travel, is Collection, the second half of the exhibition, Washington debut the exhibition will travel Organization, discusses the architecture of accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue The Modern Vision, focuses on the to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Introduction to the Foreign Language Tours the East Building, highlights its ten-year by W. R. Rearick, professor at the University interpretation of the pastoral landscape in Arts, February 16-April 16, 1989. The exhi­ East Building Collections history of exhibitions, and includes essays by of Maryland, with an introductory essay by the work of nineteenth- and twentieth- bition, organized by the National Gallery of Regularly scheduled foreign language tours National Gallery director J. Carter Brown Terisio Pignatti, professor at the University century artists in America and Europe. Art and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays and critic Benjamin Forgey. The second of Venice. The exhibition is made possible by The exhibition is made possible by grants Fine Arts, is made possible by The Pew Saturday 11:00 a.m. at noon beginning in the Rotunda. The book, by National Gallery assistant curator a grant from Ford Motor Company. It is from Ford Motor Company and The Morris Charitable Trusts. Additional funds to Sunday 1230 p.m. December/January schedule is as follows: of twentieth-century art Jeremy Strick, supported by an indemnity from the Federal and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Addi­ support its presentation at the National East Building, Ground Floor Lobby December 27 Italian documents major acquisitions and gifts of Council on the Arts and the Humanities. tional assistance was received from the L. J. Gallery have been provided by The Circle of January 3 French modern art to the National Gallery since The National Gallery has dedicated this and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation. The exhi­ the National Gallery of Art. January 10 Spanish 1978. The installation of the exhibition is exhibition and the painting The Martyrdom bition is also supported by an indemnity January 17 German made possible by a grant from American and Last Communion of Saint Lucy to the from the Federal Council on the Arts and the January 24 Italian Express Company. memory of Gwendolyn Cafritz, 1910-1988. Humanities. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 BULK RATE POSTAGE & FEES PAID OFFICIAL BUSINESS PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE, $3OO National Gallery of Art Permit No. G-47 GENERAL INFORMATION GALLERY HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. TIME VALUE Sunday noon to 9:00 p.m. GALLERY TO BE CLOSED NEW YEAR'S DAY The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. 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COVER: Paolo Veronese, The Martyrdom and Last Communion of St. Lucy, c. 1582, National Gallery of Art, Gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and Ailsa Mellon Brace Fund