National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS December 1987 DECEMBER Monday, November 30 Monday, December 7 Monday, December 14 Monday, December 21 through through through through Sunday, December 6 Sunday, December 13 Sunday, December 20 Sunday, December 27

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS December 1-December 6 December 8-December 13 December 15-December 20 December 22-December 27 Brief gallery talks given by Education Pisanello Pontormo John Marin Gilbert Stuart Department lecturers on a single work of John VIII Palaeologus The Holy Family The Grey Sea The Skater (Portrait of art. Reproductions of the work discussed (Samuel H. Kress Collection) (Samuel H. Kress Collection) (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Grant) may be purchased in the Gallery's sales West Building West Building John Marin, Jr.) (Andrew W. Mellon shops; a written text is available without Ground Floor North 4 Gallery 10 West Building Collection) charge. Gallery 71 West Building Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Gail Feigenbaum, Lecturer Amanda Renshaw, Gallery 64 Sunday 2:00 p.m. Education Intern Julie Springer, Lecturer William J. Williams, Lecturer

(The Gallery will be closed Christmas Day, Dec. 25)

SPECIAL TOURS November 30-December 4 December 7-December 11 December 14-December 18 December 21-December 24 tours given by Education Fifty-minute Still-Life Paintings Scenes of Daily Life Introduction to the Masterpieces of Sculpture Department lecturers on related works in the National Gallery West Building, Rotunda Ground Floor Galleries from the Permanent of art. of Art's Collections West Building, Rotunda Collection Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda

December 1-December 6 December 8-December 13 December 15-December 20 December 22-December 27

One-hour thematic tours given by From the Spiritual to the An American Sampler: Folk The Christmas Story Introduction to the Education Department lecturers. Sublime: Women in Interiors Art from the Shelbume in Art West Building Collections West Building, Rotunda Museum West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. East Building Sunday 2:30 p.m. Elizabeth Eder, Lecturer Ground Floor Lobby Donna Mann, Lecturer Education Department Staff Adriaen Isenbrant, The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail), c. 1530s Susan R. Arensberg, Lecturer (The Gallery will be closed National Gallery of Art Christmas Day, Dec. 25) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

FILMS December 2-December 6 December 9-December 13 December 16-December 20 December 23-December 27 Free films on art and feature films related Ansel Adams, Photographer Jackson Pollock: Portrait Andy Warhol Quilts in Women's Lives to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are (JohnHuszar, 1982, 58 min.) (Amanda Pope, 1982, (Lana Yokel, 1974, 53 min. (Pat Ferrero, 1983, 28 min.) available on a first-come, first-served basis. Wed. through Sat. 12:30 60 min.) Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Wed., Thurs., Sat. 12:30 East Building Auditorium Sun. 1:00 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 The Mirror Nostalghia Backstage at the Kirov (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, (Armand Hammer 105 min.) (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 120 min.) Productions, 1983, 80 min. Sat. 2:00 161 min.) Sat. 2:00; Sun. 6:00 Sun. 4:00 Sat. 2:00; Sun. 6:00 Mariner's Compass Quilt (detail), The Sacrifice 1835, Shelburne Museum, Vermont Nostalghia, 1983, by Andrei (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986, Tarkovsky, to be shown December 149 min.) 19 and 20 (Phototeque, New York) Sat. 2:00; Sun. 6:00

SUNDAY LECTURES December 6 December 13 December 20 December 27 Free lectures given by distinguished visiting Conversations with Geogia O'Keeffe: Contemporary Public No Sunday lecture this week scholars. No reservations needed, but Artists, IV Art and Artist Sculpture seating is limited. Speakers: Scott Burton, The film Backstage at the Sunday 4:00 p.m. George Segal Jack Cowart Virginia Mecklenburg Kirov (80 min.) will be East Building Auditorium Curator of Curator-in-Charge shown at 4:00 Interviewer: Nan Rosenthal Twentieth-Century Art Department of Paintings Curator of National Gallery of Art and Sculpture Twentieth-Century Art National Museum of National Gallery of Art American Art Washington

SUNDAY CONCERTS December 6 December 13 December 20 December 27 Free concerts by the National Gallery Joseph Porrello, Tenor National Gallery Orchestra UMBC Camerata Francis Conlon, Piano Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. Kenneth Merrill, Piano George Manos, Conductor Samuel Gordon, Director Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Works by Haydn, Liszt, All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS Works by Schubert Works by Beethoven, Christmas Program Ravel, and Barber 570 AM and 103.5 FM. and Menotti Stravinsky, and Washington Sunday 7:00p.m. premiere of Richard Bales' West Building, West Garden Court Elegy for a Master National Gallery of Art CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Family Programs Rosso Fiorentino Drawings, The Education Department continues its Prints, and Decorative Arts series of programs for families with children ages 6 to 12. This month features a Through January 3, 1988 demonstration of holiday customs from West Building, Central Gallery different lands followed by a tour of the Internationally known during his lifetime, National Gallery's Christmas paintings. Rosso Fiorentino is today regarded as one of Participants are asked to meet at 10:00 a.m. the finest and most individualistic Italian each Saturday morning for the free program, artists of the sixteenth century. Rosso was which lasts an hour and a half. On December active in Florence and Rome before being 5 the group will gather in the Small Rosso Fiorentino, Annunciation, 1531 or 1532 called to France in 1530 to become the Graphische Sammulung Albertina, Vienna Auditorium, East Building; other sessions principal painter to King Francis I. His will meet in the Lecture Hall, West Building. sophisticated style had great impact in Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1505/1510 Children must be accompanied by an adult. National France, bringing the art of the Italian executed from his compositions. The Gallery of Art, Please call (202) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1939 842-6249 for reservations. Renaissance to Paris and Fontainebleau. scholarly catalogue accompanying the Twenty-eight of his finest surviving drawings exhibition is written by Prof. Eugene A. and eighty prints after his compositions Carroll of Vassar College, a leading authority Film Programs convey the beauty and power of Rosso's on Rosso. H. Diane Russell is the imagery. Because his designs were widely coordinator of the exhibition for the East Building Auditorium influential in decorative arts, the exhibition National Gallery. The exhibition is includes majolica and Limoges enamels as supported by an indemnity "The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky/' an eight- paintings, with almost imperceptible from the Federal well as two important tapestries that were Council on the Arts and the Humanities. part series devoted to the work of this movements and subtly changing light. Anna Russian director, continues through Georgia O'Keeffe, Radiator Building Jack Tar, c. 1860-1870 Lawton, associate professor of Russian Night, New York, 1927 Shelburne Museum, Vermont December 27. Shunning theatrical literature and film at Purdue University, has Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Carl van Vechten convention, Tarkovsky stressed the poetic organized the series for the National Gallery Gallery of Fine Arts at Fisk University A Century of Modern ® Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe and artistic aspects of film, creating images and will introduce the programs on Sculpture: The Patsy and of extraordinary power and beauty. His films December 12 and 19. See reverse side for often resemble carefully composed additional information. Raymond Nasher Collection Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986 An American Sampler: Folk Art Through January 3,1988 from the Shelburne INTRODUCTORY TOURS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS Through February 21, 1988 Museum East Building, Mezzanine, East Building Through April 14, ic Ground Floor, and Concourse Introduction to the Regularly scheduled foreign language tours Upper Level and Mezzanine East Building, Upper Level A select overview of modern sculpture, this of the West exhibition shows over seventy works from West Building Collections Building are offered on Tuesdays This centennial exhibition of works by The Shelburne Museum in Vermont holds at noon beginning in the Rotunda. The one of the finest private collections of Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. Georgia O'Keeffe celebrates the artistic one of the greatest collections of its kind Henry Moore, Reclining Figure: Angles, 1979 (cast 1980) December schedule is as follows: modern sculpture in the world. The Sunday 5:00 p.m. achievement of this major American artist. anywhere, yet most of these works from Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Nasher exhibition includes concentrations of West Building, Rotunda December i French The exhibition includes in oil paintings, America's artistic and cultural heritage have sculpture by diverse modern masters of the December 8 Spanish watercolors, pastels, and drawings, many of not been exhibited widely and remain figurative and constructivist traditions as Introduction to the December 15 German them rarely seen in public. It focuses on the unknown to the American public. Among well as a selection of minimal, pop, and Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir6, East Building Collections December 22 Italian most influential aspects of O'Keeffe's career: the 121 objects included in the exhibition are postmodernist objects. The sculpture is Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo abstractions, flower paintings, cityscapes, quilts and coverlets, hooked rugs, weather Monday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. installed at the entrance to the East Building, Picasso, Medardo Rosso, and Auguste Rodin. still lifes, and landscapes. The catalogue, vanes and whirligigs, decoys, carousel Sunday 1:00 p.m. on three levels of the East Building, and in The postwar objects include sculpture by with essays by co-curators Jack Cowart of animals, trade signs, and carved figures. The East Building, Ground Floor Lobby the north sculpture court. There are Jonathan Borofsky, Anthony Caro, Jean the National Gallery and Juan Hamilton, selection has been overseen by John important examples of work by Jean Arp, Dubuffet, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, also includes a selection of previously Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, and seven unpublished letters by O'Keeffe to artists and Gallery of Art and noted scholar of American JANUARY PREVIEW Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, works by David Smith. This exhibition is other friends, assembled and annotated by art. Organized to coincide with the Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, supported by Northern Telecom. National Gallery research curator Sarah Shelburne Museum's fortieth anniversary, The Human Figure Greenough. Organized by the National the exhibition will travel following its in Early Greek Art Gallery, the exhibition will subsequently be Washington venue to the Amon Carter seen at the Art Institute of Chicago (March 5- Museum, Fort Worth (May 7-September Master Drawings from January 31- June 12,1988 4, Juneip, 1988), the Dallas Museum of Art 1988), the Denver Art Museum (October 15, The Armand Hammer Collection East Building, Concourse Level (July 31-October 16,1988), and the 1988- January 8,1989), the Los Angeles Sixty-seven Greek works of art from thepth Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York County Museum of Art (February 16-April West Building, Ground Floor (November^, 1988-February5,1989). The 30,1989), the to the 5th centuries B.C. will make up this Wads worth Atheneum, Selections from one of the finest collections exhibition is made possible by a grant from Hartford (June 4-September exhibition. It explores the treatment of the 3,1989), the of drawings in American private hands are Southwestern Bell Foundation. New-York human figure during the formative stages Historical Society (October 3, exhibited in The Armand Hammer 1989-January 7,1990), which culminated in Greek Classicism and and the Worcester Art Collection galleries on the ground floor of Museum influenced Western art for centuries there­ (April 15-August5, 1990). The the West Building. The collection has been exhibition after. The exhibition will include objects is made possible by a generous formed by Dr. Armand Hammer of Los grant from from the Geometric period (pth and 8th The New England. Angeles. This month a new selection will centuries B.C.), the Orientalizing period (/th continue on view, consisting of eighteenth- century B.C.), the Archaic period (6th century Passes and Information century drawings. This is one of the B.C.), and the Early Classical period (5th strongest areas in the Hammer Collection, century B.C.). Pass System. On crowded weekdays and including master works by Watteau, Tiepolo, Mostly made in the principal city-state of weekends, free passes will be distributed and Fragonard, as well as a number of recent Athens, the marble, bronze, and terracotta if necessary on a first-come, first-served acquisitions added to the collection this sculptures and painted vases to be displayed basis. Passes are for specified half-hour summer. also originated from other major centers of entry times. Continuing on view is Raphael's large- the Greek world and from the great Pan- Mazjie -\&n&j of a Victorious Boy Athlete, c. 470-460 B.C. O'Keeffe passes: May be obtained at scale preparatory drawing, or "cartoon," for Hellenic sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi. National Archaeological Museum, Athens the special entrance to the East Building the painting La Belle Jardiniere in the The exhibition has been selected from the designated by the Georgia O'Keeffe Louvre. Pricked for transfer to a panel, it is permanent collections of four museums in banner. the only full-scale cartoon in the United Donate Creti, Apollo Standing in a Athens and a number of regional Greek Shelbume passes: May be obtained at States by a Renaissance artist. It has been museums. Rivei Landscape, 1720-1730 It will be accompanied by a group the special exhibition desk located on acquired by the National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art, of models illustrating the history of the the Upper Level of the East Building. through the generosity of The Armand The Armand Hammer Collection 1987 Acropolis in Athens, from which several of Recorded Information. Current Hammer Foundation, and is on display in a the objects in the show come, and a film, information on the Georgia O'Keeffe and gallery reminiscent of a Renaissance chapel, made for the exhibition, giving the cultural Shelbume exhibitions is available by recently constructed to house it and other background of Greece in that crucial period Georgia O'Keeffe, Pattern of Leaves, c. 1923 calling (202) 842-3472. drawings from The Armand Hammer in the formation of Western civilization. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Collection on a rotating basis. GENERAL INFORMATION NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 GALLERY HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday noon to 9:00 p.m. GALLERY TO BE CLOSED DECEMBER 25 AND JANUARY 1 The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. To change your mailing address for the Calendar of Events, please mail a copy of your new address to the Information Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565, taking care to include the mailing label from your last Calendar of Events. The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The East and West Buildings are connected by an all-weather underground passage with a moving walkway. Entrances to the West Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has a ramp for the handi­ capped, and off 4th Street. The entrance to the East Building is on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza and also has a ramp for the handicapped. RESTAURANTS Four restaurants offer luncheon and light snacks throughout the year. 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COVER: Fish with Flag Sign, c. 1850 Shelburne Museum, Vermont