National Gallery of Art

Calendar of Events June 1994 JUNE 2:00 Gallery Talk: Color as Music: 9 THURSDAY 16 THURSDAY 21 TUESDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: Reading 29 WEDNESDAY 2 THURSDAY Kupka's "Organization of Graphic 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Wall Drawing 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan ran Eyck's 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de Annunciations (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan van Eyck's Motifs I/" No. 681 C" bySolLeWitt (EB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: "Madonna and "Annunciation " (WB) Kooning: Paintings (EB) 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Personal "Annunciation" (\\ B) 12:30 Films: Willem de Kooning: Child" byAlbrechl Dilrer (WB) 12:30 Films: John Baldessari: Progress Toward the Orient: 4 SATURDAY The Painter and The New York 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Discerning Eye: Some Stories and Ed Henderson 22 WEDNESDAY Thomas Handforth 's Adventures 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fall of School Prints & Drawings Given by Ruth B. Reconstructs Movie Scenarios 12:30 Film: Earge-Scale Projects: in Printmaking Man, " Workshop ofAlbrecht 1:00 Gallery Talk: "Fantomas" Benedict (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van 6:00 Film: Royal Affairs of Versailles Altdorfer (WB) by Juan Gris (EB) Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and Brugge n 7:00 Concert: Jeffrey Biegel, piano 3 FRIDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Renaissance "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis Coffer and the Art of Memory (WB) 10 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Fanciful Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and 2:30 Film: It'll Have Blinking Eyes 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fall of Flourishes: Ornament in European 17 FRIDAY "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) and a Moving Mouth Mem. " Workshop ofAlbrecht Graphic Art and Related Objects. 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan ran Eyck's Altdorfer (WB) 1300-1800 (EB) "Annunciation" (WB) 23 THURSDAY 5 SUNDAY 12:30 Films: Willem de Kooning: 12:30 Film: It'll Hare Blinking Eyes 12:30 Films: John Baldessari: 12:30 Film: Earge-Scale Projects: 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fall of The Painter and The New York and a Moving Mouth Some Stories and Ed Henderson Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Man, " Workshop ofAlbrecht School Reconstructs Movie Scenarios Brugge n Altdorfer (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Reading- 1:00 Gallery Talk: "Madonna and 11 SATURDAY 18 SATURDAY Annunciations (WB) Child" byAlbrechl Diirer (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan van Eyck's 2:30 Special Sunday Lecture Kooning: Paintings (EB) "Annunciation" (WrB) 24 FRIDAY Program: Jan ran Eyck's 12:30 Films: Willem de Kooning: 12:30 Films: John Baldessari: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de ""Annunciation " The Painter and The New York Some Stories and Ed Henderson Kooning: Paintings (EB) 7:00 Concert: Carl Ilalvorson. tenor. School Reconstructs \4ovie Scenarios 12:30 Film: Large-Scale Projects: Sanclra Hyslop. piano 2:30 Film: The Pearls of the Crown 2:00 Films: Story of a Cheat and Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Champs-Elysees Brugge n 7 TUESDAY 12 SUNDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fall of 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de 19 SUNDAY 25 SATURDAY Man. " (I orkshop ofAlbrecht Kooning: Paintings (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan ran Eyck's 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan van Eyck's Altdorfer (WB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: "Fantomas" "Annunciation" (WrB) "Annunciation" (WB) by Juan Gris (EB) 1:00 Films: John Baldessari: 12:30 Film: Earge-Scale Projects: 8 WEDNESDAY 4:00 Special Sunday Program: Some Stories and Ed Henderson Claes Oldenburg/Coosje I an 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fall of A Conversation with Collectors: \Villern de Kooning. Woman, 1952 1953. Mr. Aaron T. Flcischman Reconstructs Movie Scenarios Brugge n Man. " Workshop ofAlbrecht Dorothy and Herbert Vogel 4:00 Sunday Lecture: A Strange 2:30 Film: Royal Affairs of Versailles Altdorfer (WB) 6:00 Film: The Pearls of the Crown Miracle: Willem de Kooning and the 14 TUESDAY 12:30 Films: Wille.m de Kooning: 7:00 Concert: National Gallery 15 WEDNESDAY Human Figure 26 SUNDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan van Eyck's 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de The Painter and The I\eu' lork Orchestra. George Marios. 6:00 Films: Story of a Cheat and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jan ran Eyck's "Annunciation " (\\ B) Kooning: Paintings (EB) School conductor Champs-Elysees "Annunciation " (WB) 12:30 Films: John Baldessari: 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Discerning Eye: 7:00 Concert: Charles Waclsworth 1:00 Film: Earge-Scale Projects: Some Stories and Ed Henderson Prints & Drawings Given by Ruth B. and Samuel Sanders, piano duo Claes Oldenburg/Coosje I an Benedict (WB) Reconstructs Movie Scenarios Bruggen

Workshop of Albrecht Altdorfer. The Fall of Man (detail), c. 1535, National Gallon" of Ait, Samuel H. Kress Collection Jonathan Borofskv. Turtle. 1991. Gemini G.E.L.

Gallery Talks "The Fall of Man, " Workshop of Special Exhibitions Sunday Concert Special Programs Audio Tours Introductory Tours Foreign Language Albrecht Altdorfer (Samuel H. Kress A Discerning Eye: Prints & Drawings Tours and lectures are given by Series Jan van Eyck's "Annunciation " Special headsets and/or scripts are Collection) (20 minutes). J. Russell Given by Ruth B. Benedict (60 min­ Introduction: The West Building Tours education division lecturers and A program of lectures available for visitors who are hear­ Collection Sale, lecturer. June 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 at utes). Eric Denker, lecturer. June 2 Concerts take place at 7:00 every Foreign language tours of the National Gallery of Art staff. Unless Sunday, June 5 ing impaired. To reserve audio tours Monday-Saturday 10:30, 12:30, noon (WB) and 8 at 2:00 (WB) Sunday evening through June 26, permanent collection are offered otherwise noted, talks begin in either 2:30-5:00 p.m. for groups, call (202) 842-6592. and 2:30: Sunday 12:30, 2:30, 1994. Admission to the National on Tuesdays. Tours of the West the Rotunda of the West Building East Building Auditorium A Renaissance Coffer and the Art Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in Gallery of Art and its concerts is and 4:30 (H'B) or at the Ground Eevel Art Permanent Collection Building are at noon and begin in of Memory (45 minutes). Aneta European Graphic Art and Related free. Concertgoers are admitted to West Building Rotunda Information Desk of the East Moderator: John Oliver Hand, The Director's Tour, narrated by the Rotunda. Tours of the East Georgievska-Shine. graduate lec­ Objects, 1300-n()0 (45 minutes). the East Garden Court on a first- curator of Northern Renaissance Earl A. Powell III, discusses fif­ Building are at 2:00 and begin at Building (EB). Introduction: The East Building turing fellow. June 4 at 2:00 (WB) J. Russell Sale, lecturer. June 3 at come, first-served basis beginning at painting. National Gallery of Art teenth- through early twentieth-cen­ the Art Information Desk. Co/lection noon (EB) 6:00. Concertgoers arriving between tury masterpieces and includes some Sign Language Tours A Technical Study of Jan ran Eyck's Monday-Saturday 11:30 and 1:30; "Fantdmas" by Juan Gris (Chester 6:00 and 7:00 ma}~ enter only at the of the Gallery's best-loved paintings. June 7: French Tours of the permanent collection "Annunciation" Sunday 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 Dale Fund) (20 minutes). Robin Willem de Kooning: Paintings (60 6th Street and Constitution Avenue June 14: Spanish and special exhibitions are available Melanie Gifford, research conserva­ American Art. narrated by Nicolai East Building Art Information Desk Thorne Ptacek, lecturer. June 9 at minutes). Robin Thorne Ptacek, entrance to the West Building. The June 21: German and Spanish with a sign language interpreter for Jeffrey Biegel. piano tor for painting technology. National Cikovsky, Jr., curator of American 1:00 and June 12 at 2:00 (EB) lecturer. June 11, 12, 15, 21, 24 at Garden Cafe is open until 6:30 for June 28: Italian groups of five or more and may be Gallery of Art noon (FB) a pre-concert dinner. Concerts are and British paintings, features works Introduction: The American scheduled with four weeks notice. by Copley, Stuart, Homer, Eakins, Collection broadcast on a one-month-delayed Sunday Lectures Meaning and Affirmation in Jan van Spanish tours are repeated regularly For adult groups please call (202) Whistler, Bellows, and other masters June 4, 11, 18, 25 at 2:30 (This tour Jan van Eyck's "Annunciation" basis ever)'' Sunday evening at 7:00 Eyck's "Annunciation" on the third Tuesday of every 842-6247; for school groups call Lectures given by National Gallery from the Gallery's collection of replaces the usual 2:30 Introduction (Andrew W. Mellon Collection) on radio station IVGTS 91.9-FM. Carol Purtle, professor of art history. month. Meet in the East Building at (202) 842-6249 or write to: Educa­ of Art staff and distinguished schol­ American painting. to the West Building Collection) (30 minutes). Eric Denker or Philip For further information call University of Memphis 12:00 and West Building at 2:00. tion Division. Tour Scheduling. ars at 4:00 in the East Building West Building Rotunda Leonard, lecturers. June 14. 16. 17, (202) S42-6941. Audio tours are S3.75 (S3.25 for National Gallery of Art, Washington, Auditorium. From Maidens to Madonnas: Jan 18, 19, 25, 26, 29 at noon (WB) senior citizens, students, and groups B.C. 20565. Include the type of tour June 5 van Eyck's Painted Ladies June 5 of 10 or more). They may be rented you are requesting, two alternative Carl Halvorson, tenor, Linda Seidel, professor of art Jasper Francis Cropsey's "The Spirit See Special Program in the Rotunda on the Main Floor of dates and times, the size of your Sandra Hyslop, piano history, University of Chicago of War" and "The Spirit of Peace" beginning at 2:30: group, a contact person, and an Works by 20th century the West Building. (45 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, lec­ Jan van Eyck 's "Annunciation " address. You will be notified in writ­ Scandinavian composers A Conversation with Collectors: turer. June 16 and 22 at 1:00 (WB) ing of the status of your request. June 12 June 12 Dorothy and Herbert Vogel See Special Program: with Ruth Fine, curator of modern Curators, Conservators, and Other National Gallery Orchestra, Focus: The Permanent Collection A Conversation with Collectors: prints and drawings, National Specialists George Manos, conductor "Madonna and Child" by Albrecht Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Gallery of Art, and Mark Rosenthal, "Wall Drawing No. 681 C" by Sol Diirer (Samuel H. Kress Collection) June 19 curator of twentieth-century art, EelVitt, Gift of Dorothy Vogel and June 19 (20 minutes). J. Russell Sale, Charles Wadsworth and National Gallery of Art Herbert Vogel (20 minutes). Molly A Strange Miracle: Willem de lecturer. June 2 and 5 at 1:00 (WB) Samuel Sanders, piano duo Albrecht Diirer, Madonna and Child, Donovaii. curatorial assistant. June Kooning and the Human Figure Sunday, June 12 Works by Poulenc, Schubert, c. 1496/1499, National Gallery of Art, 9 at noon (EB) Maria Pratber, associate curator 4:00 p.m. Color as Music: Kupka's "Organiza­ Samuel H. Kress Collection and Mozart of twentieth-century art. National East Building Auditorium tion of Graphic Motifs IF' (45 min­ Introduction to Art June 26 Gallery of Art utes). Aneta Georgievska-Shine, The programs are open to the Reading Annunciations (45 min­ Jeffrey Biegel, piano graduate lecturing fellow. June 3 at June 26 public, but seating is limited. utes). Philip Eeonard, lecturer. June Works by Beethoven, Liszt, 2:00 (EB) Personal Progress Toward the 23 at 1:00 and June 26 at 2:00 Rubinstein, and Scriabin Orient: Thomas Handforth's (WB) Final concert of the season. Concerts Adventures in Printmaking will resume on October 2, 1994 Sinclair Hitchings, keeper of prints, Albert Bierstadt, Lake Lucerne, 1858. National Gallery of Art, Gift of Richard M. Scaif'e and Margaret R. Battle, in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art Boston Public Library OPENING EXHIBITIONS

Family Guides to the Gemini G.E.L.: Recent Prints and Sculpture Collection June 5 through October 2, 1994 // est Building Highlights is a tour of West Building, Central Gallery ten great works in the collection from of Art houses the Gemini G.E.E the Renaissance through the nine­ Archive collection. teenth century, with emphasis on Among works on view are prints styles, subjects, and symbols in and sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky Western art. Available at the West and Robert Rauschenberg, along Building Art Information Desk. with a group of delicate lithographs Portraits & Personalities explores completed by Richard Diebenkorn seven famous works including shortly before his death in 1993. Jacques-Louis David s j\apoleon in New works by other artists with His Study and two marble busts of long-established ties to Gemini Voltaire by Houdon. Available at the G.E.E. include prints by Vija \\ est Building Art Information Desk. Celmins, Sam Francis, David Shapes & Patterns, of particular Hockney, Jasper Johns. El Is worth interest to younger visitors, focuses Kelly, and Roy Liechtenstein, as well on the Fast Building s art and archi­ as prints by artists best known for Film Programs tecture. Available at the East their sculpture. Dan Flavin and Mark Building Art Information Desk. Kast Building Auditorium di Suvero. Family Guides are made possible On view as well will be publica­ listening devices are available al the Willem de Kooning: The Painter by a grant from the Yira I. Heinz tions by several artists new to Gemini \rt Informal ion Desk for visitors who (Bans Namuth. 1964, 13 minutes) Endowment. G.E.L. and new to the National are hearing impaired. and The Neir York School (Michael David Hocknev. Slow Forest, 1993. Gemini C.K.L Gallery of Art s collection since the On Saturday. June 4, filmmaker Jeb Blackwood. 1973. 55 minutes): June first presentation of the Gemini Bergh will introduce the premiere of 8-11 at 12:30 More than severity prints and edition such as Sneaker Lace in printed and G.E.E. Archive a decade ago. his film lilt I lave Winking Eyes and The Pearls of the Croivn (Sacha Exhibition sculpture produced over the last ten three-dimensional versions to a Included in this group are French a Moving Mouth, an amusing and Cuitry with Christian-Jaque. 1937. years at the highly acclaimed Eos group of Richard Serra s austere artist Daniel Buren. John Baldessari. poignant chronicle of the annual Catalogues 100 minutes); June 11 at 2:30. June Angeles workshop Gemini G.E.E. are abstractions, the exhibition also Malcolm Morley, Elizabeth Murray, kinetic sculpture race in Femdale. 12 at 6:00 IVillem de Kooning: Paintings included in this exhibition. Showing reveals the continuing range and Susan Rotheiiberg, Saul Steinberg. California. Large-Scale Projects. S25.00 (softbound) twenty-four artists, working in power of Gemini G.E.E s production. and James Turrell. whose sculpture \A\\YA Jokel's recent documentary John Baldessari: Some Stories (Peter S55.00 (hardbound) diverse styles, the show provides a Other sculpture includes works by relates to his extraordinary Roden on sculptor Claes Oldenburg, will Kirby. 1990. video, 28 minutes) and fresh look at currents in contempo­ Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Crater project in the Arizona desert. also receive its Washington premiere Eel Henderson Reconstructs Movie From Minimal to Conceptual Art: rary art. From Claes Oldenburg's Kienholz. Bruce Xaunian. and during the week of June 20. Four Scenarios (John Baldessari. 1973. Works from The Dorothy and humorously ironic figurative works Kenneth Price. The .National Gallery video. 24 minutes): June 15 18 at films by French director Sacha Herbert Vogel Collection 12:30. June 19 at 1:00 Cuitry will be shown on weekends S25.00 (softbound) throughout the month: The Pearls of Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, I he Croivn (1937). Stoiy of a Cheat 1936. 83 minutes) and Champs- Gemini G.E.L: Recent Prints CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS (1936). Champs-Elysees (1938). and Elysees (Sacha Cuitry. 1938. 87 arid Sculpture. Royal Affairs of Versailles (1954). minutes): June 18 at 2:00. June 19 S25.00 Cuitry. who is best remembered as a at 6:00 Willem de Kooning: Paintings playwright and theatrical director, Available from the National Gallery Large-Scale, Projects: Claes made over thirty films, many of of Art's publications service through September 5, 1994 Oldenbnrg/Coosje Van Bruggen them adaptations of his plays. The Sales Information (202) 842-6466 Eas1 Building. Lpper and Mezzanine Levels (Lana Jokel and Nick Doob, 1991, four films in this series exemplify his Mailorder (301)322-5900 willy boulevard style. The Sacha 56 minutes): June 22-25 at 12:30, Celebrating the ninetieth birthday of Museum of Art, October 11, 1994- continuously in the East Building June 26 at 1:00 Cuitry films are in French with May sale continues Willem de Kooning. one of America's Jauuary 8. 1995. and the Tate Small Auditorium, beginning daily most important and influential Gallery, February 16-May 7, 1995. at noon (schedule subject to change). Fnglish subtitles. Royal Affairs of Versailles (Sacha through June 12th: artists, this exhibition is the first An indemnity for the exhibition has For visitors who are hearing //'// Have Blinking Eyes and a Cuitry. 1954, 165 minutes):, June 25 Notecards, books, posters, devoted exclusively to his paintings. been granted by the Federal Council impaired, transcripts are available Moving Mouth (Jeb Bergh. 1993. 88 at 2:30, June 26 at 6:00 and other merchandise It brings together seventy-six of his on the Arts and the Humanities. at the East Building Art Information minutes, with the director in person National Gallery of Art finest works from the late 1930s to Willem de Kooning: Painter, a Desk. The video presentation and on Saturday only): June 3 at 12:30. Museum Shops the mid-1980s. ten-minute video program on de the exhibition are made possible by June 4 at 2:30 IVillem de Kooning: Paintings Koonins; s life and work, is shown J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated. begins with the artist's early depic­ OPENING EXHIBITIONS tions of men and women, followed by a selection of his acclaimed black- and-white and color abstractions The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century from 1946 to 1950. Several of his Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection provocative paintings of women from the 1950s are shown along with a June 19-September 11, 1994 group of his urban and highway West Building, Main Floor Galleries 72 through 79 landscapes. Selections from his next great series of woman paintings and The fascinating story of photogra­ his bold, richly colored abstract phy's first century is told through landscapes represent his develop­ some 250 images from one of the ment in the 1960s and 1970s. De most important private collections Kooning's ultimate synthesis of figu­ of photographs in the world. The ration and abstraction, color and exhibition begins with the earliest line, painting and drawing are experiments in 1839 and explores revealed in his luminous late works the inspirational sources and signal from the 1980s. achievements of such pioneering The exhibition is organized by the photographers as William Henry National Gallery of Art in association Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Gustave with the Tate Gallery, London, and Le Gray. Mathew Brady, Man Ray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz, and Alexander New York. It is accompanied by a Rodchenko. Photographs from fully illustrated catalogue. The exhi­ Europe, the Near East, Asia, and bition will travel to The Metropolitan Willem de Kooiiiim, L'nlilled //, 1983, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Meverhoi'f lhe United States reveal a stunning variety of unforgettable characters, landscapes, and historic events. Jan van Eyck's Annunciation Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European through September 5. 1994 Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800 West Building, Main Floor Gallery 40 through August 21, 1994 The newly conserved early Nether­ Russia's Imperial Hermitage Museum East Building, Ground Level landish masterpiece the Annuncia­ in 1930. The painting is accompa­ Ninety prints, drawings, illustrated lion, and delightful sometimes out- three-dimensional objects as ceram­ tion (c. 1434/1436) by Jan van Fyek nied by two illuminations depicting books, and decorative objects from rageous wit of graphic and decora- ics, bronzes, armor, and furniture, is one of the jewels of the National the Annunciation in manuscripts of the National Gallery of Art's collec- live arts over five centuries, the exhibition demonstrates the close Callery of Art's permanent collec­ Books of Hours, one from the collec­ tions present the beauty, imagina- Combining works on paper and such relationship between the graphic and tion. A magnificently detailed tour tion of the J. Paul Getty Museum, decorative arts. de force of Christian symbolism, the Malibu, and the other from the The exhibition is organized painting portrays the moment when Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. according to the style of ornament the angel Gabriel announces to the The exhibition and accompanying depicted grotesques, arabesques, Virgin Mary that she will be the brochure have been made possible calligraphy, rocaille or the kinds of mother of Jesus. The Annunciation by The Circle of the National Gallery objects the designs were intended to is among twenty-one paintings of Art. decorate. Among works on paper are acquired by Andrew W. Mellon from ingenious designs by eminent artists MaMer ol the I larvard I lanniba for functional objects as well as fan­ Book of Hours, c. H20-1430. The \\ alters Art Callerv tastic decorative works possibly pro­ duced for their own sake. Included are a sketch for a painted wall panel by Antoine Watteau. an illustration Froni Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and for an Egyptian-style fireplace by Giovanni Battista Pirauesi. and an Herbert Vogel Collection etching by Jean Lepautre of a form- through November 27, 1994 tain made for the garden of East Building, Mezzanine Level Versailles and now installed in the National Gallery of Art's West New \ork City art collectors Dorothy Garden Court. and Herbert Vogel have assembled -n an impressive group of contemporary man air c human breathiag forms Aav i art dating from the 1960s to the pre­ heat *** watcr fire . heal charm spring , *ts 'f fir» sun manhood sent. The exhibition highlights mini­ beacott^ I:?ight *- $PAlg «*«-»*« mal, post-minimal, and conceptual f^/K *«* sP™g stone Carth heat wound CLOSING EXHIBITIONS £oe«ckneSs heat , water mariners ?"* breeze - blood works, areas for which the collection human daylight, path- cham HI i morselearth , £°UDfn ^^^ parts ^L*« ** is best known. This is the first major plant SPongC chai" hraCg?*^lne "* showing of the Vogel collection at the' «, &e £U £ ,atw 1-Xjr t A Discerning Eye: Prints & Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict National Gallery of Art since it was <5e%htdelight Sskinkin water "**W!ck ^ brass «ihs3"8 parts* **"}*»heat wax £ transferred here in 1991. tempermper^* ea i energy fire ^t j turmoil ^*^ air t- water through June 12, 1994 Tms 8 * goats ;,on fountain TmSs k ,,, iron "^time, stone lamp , West Buildins.. This exhibition ranges from prints, magnet "^""te • obiect frame sky Ground Floor South Galleries 7, 8, & 9 pigs fle$h breezes * , rings ' air . spring . drawings, and photographs to paint­ sense WOfW fire , an. _ stone a. things fire orm* ings and sculpture. Among the forty- «. abode c°untry air * motion surface Dr. Ruth B. Benedict, a long-time nw"man atom »« , sPnng wftt,. , stone myself.iron spacer, doubt taper tinder. nine artists represented are Carl things t*" }roa powerdancc thi0gS ^!nd ;ron stone water friend and donor to the National Andre, Lyncla Beuglis, Joseph Beuys, Gallery of Art, was dedicated to the sun rac^. ,tv atom pores . * atorn appreciation and collection of prints Jonathan Borofsky, John Cage. r^^^K.«,*^ xsjvy taper* «**«- * ltf«rvrjncr k", f^«if M.I.-SJI*.n Christo, Brice Marden, Robert i^- and drawings. Organized as a tribute w« things Spring stonc ^^ torches hcat forms to Dr. Benedict, the exhibition pre­ Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, ice L bodie-i t- » tl""Ss power atom ««!, ooaw tenure ^ fire sents seventy-eight of her gifts to the Richard Tuttle. and Lawrence energy^*rw*1et-c5 surge fire' «««l!*fKf UlC«*ltlwal]s Gallery. \\einer. In many cases, the Vogels atoms sPr*nK forms , Cr, heat collected works from these artisls at way stone torch breath Reflecting Dr. Benedict's interest causes . heat man the beginning of their careers and boys ointment limbs in the history of the graphic arts, the have remained loyal patrons. love impulse exhibition is arranged chronological­ mind An illustrated catalogue accompa­ ly with works dating from the mid- nies the exhibition. The exhibition is sixteenth to the mid-twentieth marie possible in part by The Circle centuries. Highlights include an of the National Gallery of Art. Carl Andre. Limbs, 1 965. The Dorothy and 1 lorborf Vo»'el Collection impressive range of allegorical and mythological woodcuts and engrav­ ings by Hendrik Goltzius and a vari­ ety of other mannerist artists; theater design prints by Jacques Callot and Jasper Francis Cropsey's The Spirit of War and The Spirit of Peace Stefano Delia Bella; four rich impres­ through April 16, 1995 sions of etchings by Rembrandt; five West Building, Main Floor Gallery 60 aquatints by Francisco dc Goya: color lithographs and aquatints by For the first time in more than a and men and women walking, danc­ Edouard Vuillard, Jacques Villon, century, two of the most important ing, and conversing peacefully. Both and Henri-Gabriel Ibels; and one of Thomas Rowlandson \vhli Robert Pollard and Francis Jukes, f aiixhall Gardens (detail), works by American painter Jasper seem worlds away from the Hudson Henry Moore's finest drawings, a 1785, Bequest of Rutli B. Benedict Francis Cropsey are exhibited River Valley and the Catskill "shelter" scene in ink, colored together. The Spirit of War (1851).. Mountains that dominated Cropsey s chalks, and watercolor. Her fondness acquired by the National Gallery of oeuvre. He was best known for laud- for humorous, socially and politically Art in 1978 through the Avalon scapes celebrating the glories of satirical prints is evident in works by Special Installation Fund, is joined by The Spirit of autumnal American scenery, as seen Cornells Dusart, Honore Daumier, as Peace (1851) from the Woodmere in the Gallery's^///////?/? On the well as Thomas Rowlandson's mas­ An important group of dada and surrealist objects on extended loan Art Museum, Philadelphia. Hudson Hirer (1860). Cropsey terpiece Vauxhall Gardens. from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection has been installed The Spirit of War is a rugged, (1823-1900) was one of Thomas on the Upper Level, East Building. The group includes mixed-media stormy mountain landscape with a (lole's ablest followers, and these two collages, such as Joan Miro's Spanish Dancer, 1928; sculpture by Man heavily fortified castle, knights on imaginary pictures reveal the impact Ray and Marcel Jean; reliefs by Jean Arp; a large group of drawings horseback, and a burning village. of Cole's powerful allegorical style. by Paul Klee; and a selection of works on paper that will change peri­ The Spirit of Peace is a sunny, semi- The exhibition brochure is made odically throughout the year. tropical coastal scene with classical possible through the generosity of architecture, a biistlins; harbor town. Mrs. John C. Newington. Jasper Francis Cropsey, The Spirit of Wat (detail). 185t, National Gallery of Art, Avalon Fund 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 per­ manent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from coun­ tries 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. For general information call (202) 737-4215. 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/Green Lines, Smithsonian on the Blue/Orange Lines. 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. Entrances to the West Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, and on 4th Street. The entrance to the East Building is on 4th Street. ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES For general information call (202) 842-6690. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD): (202) 842-6176. The 6th Street entrance to the West Building and the 4th Street entrance to the East Building are accessible to visitors with disabilities. Limited parking is available at the East Building entrance. Assistive listening devices for the East Building Auditorium are available on a free-loan basis at the East Building Art Information Desk. RESTAURANTS Four restaurants offer luncheon and light fare. Hours are: CONCOURSE BUFFET Monday -Friday 10:00 to 3:00 Saturday 10:00 to 4:00 Sunday 11:00 to 4:30 GARDEN CAFE Monday-Friday 11:30 to 3:00 Saturday " 11:30 to 3:00 Sunday 12:00 to 6:30 CASCADE ESPRESSO BAR Monday-Friday 12:00 to 4:30 Saturday 12:00 to 4:30 Sunday 12:00 to 5:30 TERRACE CAFE Monday-Friday 11:30 to 3:00 Saturday " 11:30 to 3:00 Sundav 12:00 to 4:00

Cover: Claes Oldenburg, Apple-Summer, 1990, Gemini G.E.L.