Calendar of Events July 1993

National Gallery of Art JULY 4 SUNDAY 9 FRIDAY 11 SUNDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Marriage at 20 TUESDAY 24 SATURDAY 29 THURSDAY 12:00 Film: American Light: The 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:00 Film: Turner at the Tate Cana" by The Master of the Catholic 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: See bottom panels for introductory Luminist Movement Great French Paintings from The 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Kings (WB) Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The and foreign language tours; see 4:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern Barnes Foundation Great French Paintings from The 12:30 Film: Constable: The Changing Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation reverse side for complete film French Painting Lecture Series: 12:30 Film: Turner at the Tate Barnes Foundation Face of Nature 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape as 3:00 Film: Parsifal 12:00 Gallery Talk: Reading information. Cezanne: Figure Paintings 1:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 4:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern 1:00 Gallery Talk: Seventeenth- History: American Painting in the Mythology in Art: Ovid as a Renaissance Painting (WB) French Painting Lecture Series: Century Dutch Painting (WB) Nineteenth Century (WB) 25 SUNDAY Source (WB) 1 THURSDAY 6 TUESDAY 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Cubism 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:00 Film: Turner and 12:30 Film: The Secret Life of 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The Switzerland Travel Journals Alban Berg Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation 13 TUESDAY Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation 1802 to 1844 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation 5:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Old Violin" 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Erotic Blando French Painting Lecture Series: Great French Paintings from The 16 FRIDAY 21 WEDNESDAY Great French Paintings from The Barries Foundation by William M. Harriett (WB) Fruto" by Malcolm Morley (LB) Cubism Barnes Foundation 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Barnes Foundation 12:30 Film: American Light: The 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Marriage at Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 4:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern 30 FRIDAY Luminist Movement Great French Paintings from The 10 SATURDAY Cana" by The Master of the Catholic Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation French Painting Lecture Series: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 1:00 Gallery Talk: Spanish Painting Barries Foundation 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Kings (WB) 12:30 Film: Constable: The Changing 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape as Cezanne: Landscape and Still-Life Great French Paintings from The from El Greco to Goya (WB) Great French Paintings from The 1:00 Gallery Talk: Seventeenth- Face of Nature History: American Painting in the Paintings Barnes Foundation Jan Davidsz. de 1 leem. / use of Flowers, 12:00 Gallery Talk: Reading 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 7 WEDNESDAY Barnes Foundation Century Dutch Painting (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Italian Nineteenth Century (WB) c. 1645, National Gallery of Art, Great French Paintings from The 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Erotic Blando 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Great Age of Renaissance Painting (WB) 12:30 Film: Turner and Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Fund 27 TUESDAY Mythology in Art: Ovid as a Barnes Foundation Great French Paintings from The Fruto " by Malcolm Morley (LB) British Watercolors (WB) 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Switzerland Trarel Journals 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Source (WB) Barnes Foundation 3:00 Film: Wings 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The 1802 to 1844 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The 12:30 Film: The Secret Life of 2 FRIDAY 12:30 Film: Turner at the Tate Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation Alban Berg 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 1:00 Gallery Talk: Italian Barnes Foundation 5:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation 12:00 Gallery Talk: Reading 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The Renaissance Painting (WB) French Painting Lecture Series: Barnes Foundation Mythology in Art: Ovid as a Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 14 WEDNESDAY Renoir 23 FRIDAY Source (WB) Barnes Foundation 12:30 Film: American Light: The Great French Paintings from The 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 22 THURSDAY 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 1:00 Gallery Talk: "The Repentant 5:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern Luminist Movement Barnes Foundation Great French Paintings from The 17 SATURDAY 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The Magdalene " by Georges de La Tour French Painting Lecture Series: 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Barries Foundation 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation (WB) Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Great French Paintings from The 8 THURSDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Marriage at Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation 12:30 Film: Turner and 2:00 Introductory7 Slide Overview: and Toulouse-Lautrec Barnes Foundation 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Cana " by The Master of the Catholic Barnes Foundation 12:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape as Switzerland Travel Journals Great French Paintings from The 5:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern Great French Paintings from The Kings (WB) 3:00 Film: The Wind History: American Painting in the 1802 to 1844 Barnes Foundation 31 SATURDAY French Painting Lecture Series: Barnes Foundation 12:30 Film: Constable: The Changing Nineteenth Century (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Seventeenth- 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Cezanne: Figure Paintings 12:00 Galley Talk: "Erotic Blando Face of Nature 18 SUNDAY 12:30 Film: Turner and Century Dutch Painting (WB) 28 WEDNESDAY Great French Paintings from The Fruto" by Malcolm Morley (LB) 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:00 Film: Constable: The Changing Switzerland Travel Journals 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Barnes Foundation 3 SATURDAY 12:30 Film: Turner at the Tate Great French Paintings from The Face of Nature 1802 to 1844 Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 3:00 Films: Carmen and Vitaphone 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 1:00 Gallery Talk: "The Repentant Barnes Foundation 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 1:00 Gallery Talk: "TTze Repentant Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation Opera Shorts Great French Paintings from The Magdalene '" by Georges de La Tour Great French Paintings from The Magdalene " by Georges de La Tour 5:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern 12:30 Film: The Secret Life of Alb an Barnes Foundation (WrB) 15 THURSDAY Barnes Foundation (WB) French Painting Lecture Series: Berg 4:00 Film: Old Ironsides 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 4:00 Albert C. Barnes and Modern 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Great Age of Cezanne: Landscape and Still-Life 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Malcolm Morley. Erotic Blando Fruto. Great French Paintings from The 1989. National Gallery of Art. Washington. Great French Paintings from The French Painting Lecture Series: British Watercolors (WB) Paintings Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation Gift of the Collectors Committee Barnes Foundation Renoir Barnes Foundation

GALLERY TALKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS SUMMER FAMILY PROGRAMS AUDIO TOURS

Tours and lectures are given by Unless otherwise noted, talks begin "The Marriage at Cana " by the Foreign language tours of the Travels with Artists Audio tours are $3.75 ($3.25 for Tapes of the permanent collection education division lecturers and in either the Rotunda of the West Master of the Catholic Kings (Samuel permanent collection are offered on Visit places both far away and familiar senior citizens, students, and groups may be rented in the Rotunda on the National Gallen- staff. Building (WB) or at the Ground H. Kress Collection) (25 minutes). Tuesdays. Tours of the West Building through the artist's eyes. For families of ten or more). Special headsets main floor of the West Building. Floor Art Information Desk of the Frances Feldman, lecturer. July 13, are at noon and begin in the Rotunda. with children in grades 1-3, and/or scripts are available for Sign Language Tours East Building (EB). 14, 15atnoon(WB). Tours of the East Building are at 2:00 Wednesdays from 1:00-2:00 during visitors who are hearing impaired. Special Exhibitions Tours of the permanent collection and and begin at the Art Information Desk the month of July. The Travels with Great French Paintings from The special exhibitions are available with a Focus: The Permanent Collection Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting of the East Building. Artists tour is limited to twenty To reserve audio tours for groups, Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, sign language interpreter for groups of (60 minutes). Amy Burlingame, participants; to register call call (202) 842-6592. Post-Impressionist, and Early five or more and may be scheduled "The Old Violin" by William M. summer lecturer. July 13, 15, 23 at July 6: French (202) 842-6249. Modern, narrated by Earl A. Powell with four weeks notice. For adult Harnett (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. 1:00 (WB). July 13: Spanish Permanent Collection III, director, National Gallery of Art, groups, please call (202) 842-6247; Richard Mellon Scaife in honor of July 20: German and Spanish Drawing in the Galleries The Director's Tour, narrated by is available at the entrance to the for school groups call (202) 842-6249 Paul Mellon) (30 minutes). Wilford Landscape as History: American July 27: Italian Increase observation skills through Earl A. Powell III, discusses fifteenth- exhibition on the Mezzanine Level in or write to: Lducation Division. Tour W. Scott, lecturer. July 1 at noon Painting in the Nineteenth Century drawing exercises based on works of through early twentieth-century the East Building. Scheduling, National Gallery of Art, (WB). (60 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, Spanish tours are repeated regularly art in the galleries. No previous masterpieces and includes some of the Washington, D.C. 20565. Include the lecturer. July 20, 21, 22 at noon on the third Tuesday of every month drawing experience is necessary and Gallery's best-loved paintings. The Great Age of British Watercolors type of tour you are requesting, two Spanish Painting from El Greco to (WB). Meet in the East Building at 12:00 materials are provided. For ages 1750-1880, narrated by Andrew alternative dates and times, the Goya (45 minutes). Frances and West Building at 2:00. 9-12, on Tuesdays from 11:00-12:00 American Art, narrated by Nicolai Wilton, keeper of the British number in your group, a contact Feldman, lecturer. July 1 at 1:00 Reading Mythology in Art: Ovid as a during the month of July. Each session Cikovsky, Jr., curator of American Collection, Tate Gallery, London, is person and an address. You will be (WB). Source (45 minutes). Philip L. is limited to twenty participants; to and British painting, features works available at the entrance to the notified in writing of the status of Leonard, lecturer. July 27, 29, 30 register call (202) 842-6249. by Copley, Stuart, Cole, Homer, exhibition off the 7th Street Lobby in your request. at noon (WB). INTRODUCTORY TOURS Eakins, Whistler, Bellows, and other the West Building. Musical Instruments in Art masters from the Gallery's collection Master of the Catholic Kings, The Marriage Special Exhibitions Introduction to the West Building As beautiful to see as they are to hear, of American painting. at Cana. c. 1495-1497. National Gallery of musical instruments have fascinated Art. Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection Collection "Great French Paintings from The Monday-Saturday 10:30, 12:30, artists throughout history. This Barnes Foundation " Introductory- and 2:30 program, for families with children "Erotic Blando Fruto" by Malcolm Slide Overview (45 minutes). Sunday 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 ages 8-12, will include a live Morley (Gift of the Collectors Education division staff. Meet in the West Building Rotunda demonstration of musical instruments Committee) (45 minutes). Robin East Building Large Auditorium, followed by a tour of some of these Thorne Ptacek, lecturer. July 6, 8, 10 July 1-2,6-9, 13-16,20-23, (Les Irois .wears, Inptique). 1917. © 1993 Introduction to the East instruments represented in works of at noon (EB). 27-30 at 10:30 and 2:00; July 3, 10, Building Collection art. On Saturday, August 7, from 17, 24, 31 at 10:30; July 11, 18, 25 Monday-Saturday 11:30 and 1:30 10:15-12:00 noon. Space is limited; to Italian Renaissance Painting (60 at 2:00. Sunday 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 register call (202) 842-6249. minutes). Elizabeth Weaver, summer "The Repentant Magdalene" by East Building, Art Information Desk lecturer. July 7, 9, 16 at 1:00 (WB). The Great Age of British Watercolors, Georges de La Tour (Ailsa Mellon 1750-1880 (60 minutes). Philip L. Brace Collection) (20 minutes). Philip Leonard, lecturer. July 13, 22 at 2:00 L. Leonard, lecturer. July 8, 22, 27 at (WB). 1:00 (WB). Pieter de Hooch, The Bedroom (detail), c. 1660, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Widener Collection Francis Danby, The Frome at Stapleton, Bristol, c. 1823, Bristol City Museums and Art Gallen- National Gallery of Art CONTINUING EXHIBITION Film Programs Great French East Building Auditorium Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: On Saturday afternoons in July, a special series of silent film concerts Impressionist, will include James Cruze's 1926 Old Post-Impressionist, Ironsides, William Wellman's 1927 Wings, Victor Sjostrom's 1927 The and Early Modern Wind, Thomas A. Edison's 1904 through August 15, 1993 Parsifal, and Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 East Building, Upper Level Carmen, followed by a selection of and Mezzanine Vitaphone (early sound) operatic excerpts. This series is presented in association with the Library of For the first time, eighty of the finest Congress Motion Picture, Broad­ French impressionist, post- casting, and Recorded Sound impressionist, and early modern Division, which has restored a paintings from the extraordinary number of the prints. Gillian collection assembled by Dr. Albert C. Anderson, a specialist in silent film Barnes are on exhibit at the National music from the Library's Music Thomas A. Edison, Parsifal, 1904 Gallery of Art. The exhibition Division, will conduct each program. includes masterpieces from The Barnes Foundation's strong holdings American Light: The Luminist Constable: The Changing Face of The Secret Life ofAlban Berg (BBC of Cezanne, Matisse, and Renoir, as Movement (National Gallery of Art, Nature (The National Gallery. Television, 1992, 55 minutes, video); well as paintings by Manet, Monet, Claude Monet. The Boat Studio (Le bateau-atelier) (detail), 1876, 1980, 32 minutes); July 1 and 2 at London, 1991, 25 minutes, video); July 28 through 30 at 12:30. Van Gogh. Gauguin, Rousseau, © 1993 The Barnes Foundation 12:30, July 4 at 12:00. July 14 through 16 at 12:30, July 18 Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Chaim at 12:00. Carmen (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915, 60 Soutine, Roger de la Fresnaye, Old Ironsides (James Cruze, 1926, minutes, silent with piano and voice) Braque. and Picasso. Among the by Dr. Barnes specially to fit the education and the appreciation of 110 minutes, silent with live The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, 1927, and Vitaphone Opera Shorts (Warner renowned paintings in the exhibition lunettes above the windows in the the fine arts." orchestral accompaniment); July 3 at 88 minutes, silent with live piano Bros., c. 1927, 45 minutes); July 31 are Renoir's life-size depiction of main hall of The Barnes Foundation A ten-minute video, narrated by 4:00. score); July 17 at 3:00. at 3:00. fashionable young Parisians, Leaving in Merion, Pennsylvania. It is Joanne Woodward, focuses on the the Conservatoire (1877); the largest displayed along with the newly origins and purposes of the collection Turner at the Tate (Daniel Wiles, Turner and Switzerland Travel and most complex version of restored Unfinished Dance Mural, and Barnes pioneering role as an 1987, 54 minutes, video); July 7 Journals 1802 to 1844 (Riccardo Self-Guided Tour Cezanne's Cardplayers (1890 another version by Matisse, which American collector of modern art. through 9 at 12:30, July 11 at 12:00. Brunner, 1992, 43 minutes, video); Brochures for 1892); Seurat's neo-impressionist was discovered recently. This is the The program was made possible by July 21 through 23 at 12:30, July 25 masterpiece Les Poseuses (The mural's first public appearance. The Circle of the National Gallery of Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927, at 12:00. Families Models) (1886-1888}-, Acrobat and Great French Paintings from The Art and The International Corporate 130 minutes, silent with live piano Young Harlequin (1905), a touching Barnes Foundation at the National Circle. Showings are continuous in score); July 10 at 3:00. Parsifal (Thomas A. Edison, 1904, Portraits & Personalities guides evocation of circus performers from Gallery of Art is supported by a the East Building Small Auditorium 70 minutes) silent with piano and families with children ages eight to Picasso's rose period; and Matisse's grant from GTE Corporation. The on the concourse level, starting at voice); July 24 at 3:00. ten on an interactive exploration of landmark fauve painting, Bonheur National Caller)- of Art and The 11:30 a.m. An audio tour narrated seven famous works including de vivre (The Joy of Life) (1905- Barnes Foundation are exhibition by Earl A. Powell III, director of the David's painting Napoleon in His 1906), an exuberant and sensual co-organizers. National Gallery, is available at the Study and two marble busts of depiction of an earthly paradise. Born in 1872 and raised in entrance to the exhibition. Voltaire by Houdon. Available at the Another important focus of the Philadelphia, Barnes financed his A 318-page catalogue includes West Building Main Floor Art exhibition is Matisse's monumental tuition for medical school by boxing 323 illustrations, 154 of which are in Information Room. mural The Dance (Merion Dance and playing semi-professional full color, as well as essays and Mural) (1932-1933), commissioned baseball. He received an M.D. degree entries by twelve eminent American Shapes & Patterns, for families at the age of 21. and a few years and French art historians and with children ages four to eight, later entered the pharmaceutical curators. The exhibition will travel focuses on aspects of the East SUMMER HOURS business. Financial success enabled to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, Building's art and architecture of him to amass one of the world's September 6. 1993-January 2, particular interest to younger The hours for Great French greatest private art collections. At 1994; the National Museum of visitors. Available at the East Paintings from The Barnes first he focused his efforts on Western Art in Tokyo, January Building Art Information Desk. Foundation are extended until contemporary American painting 21-April 3, 1994; and the 7:00 on Friday, Saturday, and on French impressionist, post- Philadelphia Museum of Art. Both tours for families are made and Sunday evenings through impressionist, and early modern possible by a grant from the Vira I. August 15. works. He also collected African PASS SYSTEM Heinz Endowment. Approximate tribal sculpture. Greek and Egyptian time for each is 45 minutes. The Terrace Cafe, featuring a antiquities, metalwork. native Admission to the exhibition special French luncheon menu, is American art, and watercolors and Great French Paintings from The open until 6:30 those Friday, drawings. In 1922 Barnes Barnes Foundation: Impres­ Walking Tour Saturday, and Sunday evenings established The Barnes Foundation, sionist, Post-Impressionist, and Brochures for Adults with a full menu until 6:00. The which was chartered in the Early Modern, on view at the East Building bookstore will Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as Gallery through August 15, Landscape Paintings at the National remain open until 7:00 as well. an educational institution to 1993, requires a pass. Same-day Gallery of Art focuses on interpre­ ''promote the advancement of and advance passes may be tations of nature in nineteen obtained free of charge at the European and American paintings Gallery's East Building at Fourth made over the last five centuries. The Special Exhibition Lecture Series Street and Constitution Avenue, brochure is made possible in part by N.W. Advance passes may also a gift from Lee and Juliet Folger/The Albert C. Barnes and Modern French Painting be obtained at all Ticketmaster Folger Fund. Available in the West locations and Hecht Co. stores Building Art Information Room and An eight-part series by the staff of July 9 and 11 for a service charge of $2.00 per at the East Building Art Information the education division focusing on Cubism pass. Through Ticketmaster Desk. the collections of Albert C. Barnes is Robin Thorne Ptacek. lecturer PhoneCharge there is a $3.00 continued from June. Lectures are July 16 and 18 service fee per pass and a $1.00 "/ am Still Learning, ": Late Works presented Fridays at 5:00, and Renoir handling fee per order. For this by Masters examines works by repeated on Sundays at 4:00, in the Philip L. Leonard, lecturer service please call one of the such artists as Titian, Rembrandt, East Building Large Auditorium. July 23 and 25 following numbers: Washington, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Mortlake Terrace (detail), c. 1827, Winslow Homer, Paul Cezanne, and Reservations are not required, but Cezanne: Landscapes and D.C. (202) 432-SEAT; Bal­ National Gallery of Art, Washington. Andrew W. Mellon Collection Henri Matisse, who pursued their art seating is limited. Still-Life Paintings timore, MD (410) 481-SEAT; in their last years with continuing Robert Haywood. guest lecturer Nationwide Toll-Free (800) 551- creativity and inspiration. Available July 2 and 4 July 30 and August 1 SEAT. For more information on in the West Building Main Floor Art Cezanne: Figure Paintings Manet, Monet, I an Gogh. passes, call (202) 842-6713. Information Room. J. Russell Sale, lecturer Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec Eric Denker. lecturer CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITION Helen Frankenthaler: Prints

through September 6, 1993 through September 6, 1993 East Building, Upper Level, West Bridge West Building, Main Floor The National Gallery of Art's first Gallery 33 show by the widely acclaimed contemporary American artist Helen Celebrating the four-hundredth Frankenthaler features more than anniversary of the birth of Georges seventy-five prints and related de La Tour, this focus exhibition drawings from 1961, the year she features the National Gallery's first experimented with printmaking, recently conserved Repentant through the present. Credited with Magdalene (c. 1640) and another playing a pivotal role in the trans­ version by Ea Tour on the same ition from abstract expressionism to theme from the Eos Angeles County color-field painting, Frankenthaler is Museum of Art. Ea Tour (1593- among the vanguard of painters and 1644) often produced similar sculptors who inspired a new paintings of a theme, altering the enthusiasm for contemporary composition to emphasize its printmaking. Her distinctive prints different aspects. These portraits of relate closely to her paintings on the repentant sinner in the act of paper and large-scale canvases; thus renouncing her worldly goods and the exhibition illustrates the power meditating on death are among the and visual diversity of her rich most important ideas explored by the abstractions. artist in autograph versions. The Helen Frankenthaler. First Stone, 1961, .National Gallery of Art, Washington, Frankenthaler began her print Rosenwald Collection exhibition, organized by the National explorations in lithography, a Gallery, is accompanied by a method that traditionally begins with brochure that addresses the a drawing on limestone. This pochoir, a stencil process, and vivid Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, significance of these paintings and remained her primary print medium monotypes, some of which feature January 5-March 13, 1994: and their place in Ea Tour's oeuvre. The until 1968 when she added the densely worked sculptural surfaces. the Contemporary Arts Center, show will travel to the Eos Angeles aquatint process, creating fields of Also on view is a selection of unique Cincinnati, April 8-June 17, 1994. County Museum of Art from October luminous color by etching copper color proofs as well as drawings. Publication of the catalogue has been 6, 1993, through January 16, 1994. Georges de La Tour. Magdalene with the Smoking /-'lame (detail), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gift of the Ahmanson Foundation plates with acid. Her first woodcut Organized by the National generously supported by The Circle dates from 1973. Along with edition Gallery, the show will travel to of the National Gallerv of Art. impressions in all of these media, the the San Diego Museum of Arts. exhibition includes prints made by October 2-December 5, 1993: the CLOSING EXHIBITION

The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880 Exhibition Catalogues through July 25, 1993 West Building, Central Gallery Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, development of this popular Post-Impressionist, and Early medium. J. M. W. Turner, whose Modern brilliant renderings of atmosphere S65.00 (hardcover) and light pushed the medium to a $25.00 (softcover) new height, is represented by twenty- seven major watercolors. The Great Age of British Watercolors The show is arranged according to 1750-1880 six themes including the structure of $70.00 (hardcover) landscape, man in the landscape, S40.00 (softcover) atmosphere, and naturalism. It presents the full flowering of British Drawings from the O'Neal Collection watercolor from its origins as a $25.00 straightforward medium for recording the visible world, as seen Helen Frankenthaler: Prints in literal topographical views of $25.00 English towns and countryside, James Ward, A Sheep Resting, c. 1800/1810. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of William B. O'Neal through the magnificence of the Available from the National Gallery's romantic era, to the fresh publications service spontaneity and free brushstroke Drawings from the Sales Information (202) 842-6466 that anticipated French O'Neal Collection Mailorder (301)322-5900 impressionism. The richly detailed through August 15, 1993 works of artist-critic John Ruskin, East Building, Ground Floor, Northeast Galleries focusing on the importance of naturalism during the period, and This exhibition of fifty-eight old Architectural and theatrical New Gallery Guide the intense visionary landscapes of master and modern drawings designs, among O'Neal's strongest Samuel Palmer, whose bold forms celebrates the gift and promised gift collecting interests, are featured, A comprehensive survey of the anticipate twentieth-century ideas to the National Gallery of the along with fine Victorian and Pre- Gallery s collections, National about expressing emotion, are distinctive collection of William B. Raphaelite drawings by Sir Edward Gallery of Art, Washington, is among the nineteenth-century O'Neal, professor emeritus of Coley Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, available in a paperback format for works on view. architectural history at the John Ruskin, and Sir Eawrence the special price of $10.95. The The exhibition has been organized University of Virginia in Charlottes- Alma-Tadema. Other artists works of art are illustrated in 309 by the Royal Academy of Arts, ville. The entire collection consists represented include Leandro full-color plates; the 328 pages of Eondon, and the National Gallery of John Sell Cotman. Chirk Aqueduct. 1806-1807, The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and of more than three hundred Bassano, Francisco Ribalta, Mauro text were written by Gallery staff and Albert Museum, London Art, Washington. It is supported by European, British, and American Tesi, George Romney, and Thomas other experts. To order the an indemnity from the Federal drawings dating from the sixteenth Rowlandson. handbook please call our mail-order Council on the Arts and the to the twentieth centuries. office at (301) 322-5900 or visit More than 250 superb British assembles rarely seen masterworks Humanities. The Gallery is the our bookstores. watercolors chosen from major by seventy-seven artists, including show's sole American venue. collections throughout Great Britain Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert A British-style tea service is and America demonstrate the Cozens, John Constable, John Sell offered daily in the Garden Cafe glorious and innovative achievements Cotman, Thomas Girtin, William from 2:00 to 4:00, through July 25, of British watercolorists between Blake, and others whose watercolors 1993. 1750 and 1880. The exhibition were of critical importance to the NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 GENERAL INFORMATION The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States 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. HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. EXTENDED EXHIBITION HOURS Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings until 7:00 p.m. through August 15, 1993. The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. The Gallery is located between 3d and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The nearest Metro stops are Judiciary Square on me Red Line. 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COVER: James McNeill Whistler, St. Ive.s, c. 1883, Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge From the exhibition The Great Age of British Watercolorn: 1750—1880