AUGUST 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Dance Murals 8 SUNDAY 15 SUNDAY 24 TUESDAY of Henri Matisse (EB) 12:00 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life 12:00 Film: Joan Mitchell: Portrait of 12:00 Gallery Talk: French Paintings 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: an Abstract Painter From the Ailsa Mellon Brace See bottom panels for introductory Great French Paintings jrorn The Great French Paintings from The 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Collection (EB) and foreign language tours; see Barnes Foundation Barries Foundation Great French Paintings from The reverse side for complete film 4:00 Special Exhibition Eecture Barnes Foundation 25 WEDNESDAY information. 5 THURSDAY Series: Matisse 4:00 Special Exhibition Lecture 12:00 Gallery Talk: French Paintings 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 6:00 Film: Motel Series: Seurat From the Ailsa Mellon Brace \ SUNDAY Great French Paintings from The 6:00 Film: All by Myself: Eartha Kitt Collection (EB) Barnes Foundation 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 9 MONDAY 12:30 Film: Larry Rivers Public and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Approaching Great French Paintings from The 1:00 Gallery Talk: Italian 17 TUESDAY Private Utopia in Early Twentieth-Century Barnes Foundation Renaissance Painting (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Theme of the 1:00 Gallery Talk: Landscape as Art (EB) 4:00 Special Exhibition Eecture Annunciation in Renaissance Art History: American Painting in the 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life Series: Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, 10 TUESDAY (WB) Nineteenth Century (WB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Dance Murals Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: of Henri Matisse (EB) Great French Paintings from The 18 WEDNESDAY 26 THURSDAY 2 MONDAY 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Barnes Foundation Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Theme of the 12:00 Gallery Talk: French Paintings Gallery of Art, Great French Paintings from The (Sea Battle). 191.1 National Annunciation in Renaissance Art From the Ailsa Mellon Bruce 12:00 Gallery Talk: Approaching 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund Barnes Foundation Utopia in Early Twentieth-Century^ Great French Paintings from The (WB) Collection (EB) 12:30 Film: Wild Wheels 12:30 Film: Larry Rivers Public and Art (EB) Barnes Foundation 13 FRIDAY 6 FRIDAY Private 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 3 TUESDAY 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 11 WEDNESDAY 19 THURSDAY French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Great 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview7: 12:30 Film: Wild Wheels 27 FRIDAY Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 12:30 Film: Larry Rivers Public and 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life 12:30 Film: Joan Mitchell: Portrait of Barries Foundation Barnes Foundation 20 FRIDAY Private 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: an Abstract Painter 1:00 Gallery Talk: Spanish Painting 12:30 Films: Joan Mitchell: Portrait 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Theme of the Great French Paintings from The 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: (WB) of an Abstract Painter Annunciation in Renaissance Art 28 SATURDAY From El Greco to Goya Great French Paintings from The Talk: The Dance Murals Barnes Foundation 1:00 Gallery Talk: Italian (WB) 12:30 Film: Larry Rivers Public and 2:00 Gallery Barnes Foundation 5:00 Special Exhibition Lecture Renaissance Painting (WB) 12:30 Film: Wild Wheels Private of Henri Matisse (EB) 5:00 Special Exhibition Lecture Series: Matisse 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 2:30 Films: MA; and Murray and 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Series: Seurat Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 21 SATURDAY Tapdancin ' 7 SATURDAY 12:30 Film: Wild Wheels Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation 14 SATURDAY 10:15 Family Program: Musical 2:30 Films: Sam Fuller, Roger 29 SUNDAY 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 4 WEDNESDAY Instruments in Art (registration 12 THURSDAY Corman and Signed: Lino Brocka 1:00 Film: Larry Rivers Public and required) Great French Paintings from The 10:30 Introdiictory Slide Overview: 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Private 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: Barnes Foundation Great French Paintings from The Great French Paintings from The 22 SUNDAY 4:00 Sunday Eecture: When Great French Paintings from The 12:30 Film: Joan Mitchell: Portrait of Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation 1:00 Film: Wild Wheels Appearance Belies Reality: Foundation an Abstract Painter 12:00 Gallery Talk: Approaching Barnes 12:30 Film: Joan Mitchell: Portrait of 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Picasso, Rembrandt's "Art Without Art" 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life 2:30 Films: Edith Head and L/topia in Early Twentieth-Century an Abstract Painter Primitivism, and the Still-Life 6:00 Films: Yesterday's Witness and Observations under the Volcano Art (EB) 2:30 Films: Memoirs of a Movie 2:00 Introductory- Slide Overview: Connection Private Conversations Palace and My Life for Zarah 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life Great French Paintings from The 6:00 Film: Harlem Theater Leander Barnes Foundation
r:ii i i uv T\i k Q SPECIAL UPCOMING PROGRAM AUDIO TOURS from the Gallery's collection of Rediscovering Picasso at the American painting. Audio tours are $3.75 ($3.25 for Tours and lectures are given by National Gallery of Art senior citizens, students, and groups Tapes of the permanent collection education division lecturers and The extraordinarily rich contribution of ten or more). Special headsets may be rented in the Rotunda on the National Gallery staff. of Pablo Picasso to twentieth-century and/or scripts are available for main floor of the West Building. art will be the special focus of educa Sign Language Tours visitors who are hearing impaired. Tours of the permanent collection and tional programs during the month Special Exhibitions special exhibitions are available with of September. Lectures and gallery To reserve audio tours for groups, call Great French Paintings from The a sign language interpreter for groups talks will take a fresh look at the (202) 842-6592. Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, of five or more and may be scheduled career, technique, and interpretation Post-Impressionist, and Early- with four weeks notice. For adult of Picasso s works in various media. Permanent Collection Modern, narrated by Earl A. Powell groups, please call (202) 842-6247: The program is the first in a series The Director's Tour, narrated by Earl III, director. National Gallery of Art, is for school groups call (202) 842-6249 offered by the Department of Adult A. Powell III. discusses fifteenth- available at the entrance to the or write to: Education Division. Tour Programs intended to encourage through early twentieth -century exhibition on the mezzanine level in Scheduling, National Gallery of Art, visitors to rediscover different aspects masterpieces and includes some of the the East Building. Washington. D.C. 20565. Include the of the permanent collection. Gallery's best-loved paintings. two type of tour you are requesting, American Art, narrated by Nicolai FOHFIGN 1 A\CU\G] alternative dates and times, the num CONCERTS REBROADCAST (Crawford Nolch). 1839, Gikovsky Jr.. curator of American and ber in your group, a contact person Thomas Cole. The Notch of the ll'hitc Mountains Foreign language tours of the per National Gallerv of Art. Andrew W. Mellon Fund Concerts from the Gallery's 1992- British painting, features works by notified in manent collection are offered on and an address. You will be 1993 season will be rebroadcast on Gopley, Stuart, Cole. Homer, Eakins. request. Tuesdays. Tours of the West Building writing of the status of your August 17, 18, 20 at noon (WB). SUNDAY LECTURES radio station WETA-FM (90.9) on Whistler, Bellows, and other masters Unless otherwise noted, talks begin Fridays in August at 9:00 p.m.: are at noon and begin in the Rotunda. French Paintings from the Ailsa Lectures given by National Gallery in either the Rotunda of the West August 6, The National Gallery Tours of the East Building are at 2:00 Mellon Bruce Collection (60 minutes). staff at 4:00 in the East Building Building (WB) or at the Ground Floor Orchestra: August 13, Ralph Votapek. and begin at the Art Information Desk Eric Denker, lecturer. August 24, 25, Auditorium. Art Information Desk of the East pianist: August 20, The Bergen Wind of the East Building. Building (EB). 26 at noon (EB). Sunday, August 1, 8, 15 Quintet; August 27, The National August 3: French Focus: The Permanent Collection Landscape as History: American (see Special Exhibition Eecture Series Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble. August 10: Spanish Approaching Utopia in Early Painting in the Nineteenth Century given also on Friday, August 6, 13 at August \l\German and Spanish Twentieth-Century Art (60 minutes). (60 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, 5:00) Albert C. Barries 'KOIHCTOl S August 24: Italian Amy Burlingame. summer lecturer. lecturer. August 25 at 1:00 (WB). and Modern French Painting Introduction to the West Building Spanish tours are repeated regularly August 2. 4, 5 at noon (EB). Special Exhibitions August 22 Collection on the third Tuesday of every month. Spanish Painting from El Greco to "Great French Paintings from The Picasso, Primitivisrn, and the Monday-Saturday 10:30, 12:30 Meet in the East Building at 12:00 Goya (60 minutes). Frances Feldman, Barnes Foundation " Introductory Still-Life Connection and 2:30 and West Building at 2:00. lecturer. August 3 at 1:00 (WB). Slide Overview (45 minutes). Educa Arny Burlingame, summer lecturer Sunday 12:30, 2:30 and 4:30 tion Division Staff. Meet in the East August 29 West Building Rotunda Italian Renaissance Painting (60 Building Large Auditorium, August Wlien Appearance Belies Reality: Introduction to the East Building minutes). Elizabeth Weaver, summer 3-6, 10-13 at 10:30 and 2:00: Rembrandt's "Art Without Art" Collection lecturer. August 9 and 11 at 1:00 August 1, 8, 15 at 2:00 only: August Elizabeth Weaver, summer lecturer 11:30 and 1:30 (WB). 7, 14 at 10:30 only. Monday-Saturday Bartolome Esteban Murillo, A Girl and Her Sunday 11:30. 1:30 and 3:30 Duenna, c. 1670, National Gallon,7 of Art, Widener Collection The Theme of the Annunciation The Dance Murals of Henri Matisse East Building, Art Information Desk in Renaissance Art (60 minutes). (30 minutes). Philip L. Leonard, Elizabeth Weaver, summer lecturer. lecturer. August 3, 4, 5 at 2:00 (EB). National Gallery of Art CONTINUING EXHIBITION CLOSING EXHIBITIONS
Film Programs Helen Frankenthaler: Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: East Building Auditorium Prints Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern A series devoted to the work of through September 6, 1993 through August 15, 1993 Christian Blackwood, a prominent East Building, Upper Level, East Building, Upper Eevel and Mezzanine documentary filmmaker who West Bridge specialized in art and performance, For the first time, eighty of the finest The National Gallery of Art's first will take place on weekends during French impressionist, post-impres show by the widely acclaimed con sionist, and early modern August. Although he lived in the paintings temporary American artist Helen United States, Mr. Blackwood was from the extraordinary collection Frankenthaler features more than a native of Germany and for over assembled by Dr. Albert C. Barnes seventy-five prints and related draw are on exhibit twenty years, produced, directed, at the National Gallery ings from 1961, the year she first and photographed many high-quality of Art. The exhibition includes mas experimented with priritmaking, art films for European television terpieces from The Barnes Foun through the present. Credited with dation's strong holdings and theatrical release. His films were of Cezanne, playing a pivotal role in the transi seen world-wide at major festivals, Matisse, and Renoir as well as tion from abstract expressionism to paintings by Manet, including Cannes, Berlin, Sydney, Monet, Van color-field painting, Frarik-erithaler Gogh, Gauguin, Rousseau, Seurat, London, New York, and Toronto. Joan Mitchell, Land, 1989. National Gallery of Art. Gift of Lila Arheson Wallace, is among the vanguard of painters Toulouse-Lautrec, Chaim Soutine, Our retrospective of Mr. Blackwood's horn Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter, Marion Gajori and Christian Blackwood and sculptors who inspired a new Helen Frankenthaler. Yellow Span. 1968, Artist's Archive Roger de la Fresnaye, Braque, and work includes Observations Under enthusiasm for contemporary print- Picasso. Among the renowned paint the Volcano (1984), Harlem Theater Nik and Murray: Alwin Nikolais and Summer Family making. Her distinctive prints relate aquatint process, creating fields of Organized by the National Gal ings in the exhibition are Renoir's (1968), Signed: Lino Brocka (1987), Murray Louis (Christian Blackwood, closely to her paintings on paper and luminous color by etching copper lery, the show will travel to the San life-size depiction of fashionable Memoirs of a Movie Palace (1980), 1986, 83 minutes) and Tapdancin' Program large-scale canvases; thus the exhibi plates with acid. Her first woodcut Diego Museum of Art, October 2- young Parisians, Leaving the Con and Motel (1989), among others. (Christian Blackwood, 1980, 58 Musical Instruments in Art tion illustrates the power and visual dates from 1973. Along with edition December 5, 1993; the Museum of servatoire (1877); the largest and A special screening of Proust: A minutes); August 28 at 2:30. As beautiful to see as they are to diversity of her rich abstractions. impressions in all of these media, the Fine Arts, Boston, January 5-March most complex version of Cezanne's Writer's Life (1992), about the hear, musical instruments have fas Frankenthaler began her print exhibition includes prints made by 13. 1994; and the Contemporary Cardplayers (1890-1892); Seurat's creation of Remembrance of Things Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the cinated artists throughout history. explorations in lithography, a pochoir\ a stencil process, and vivid Arts Center, Cincinnati, April 8- neo-impressionist masterpiece Les Past, is scheduled for the first week American Newsreel (Christian This program, for families with method that traditionally begins monotypes, some of which feature June 17, 1994. Publication of the Poseuses (The Models) (1886-1888): of August, and the Washington Blackwood, 1974. 52 minutes) and children ages eight to twelve, will with a drawing on limestone. This densely worked sculptural surfaces. catalogue has been generously sup Acrobat and Young Harlequin premiere of the feature-length Larry Private Conversations: On the Set of include a live demonstration of remained her primary print medium Also on view is a selection of unique ported by The Circle of the National (1905), a touching evocation of Rivers Public and Private (1992) "Death of a Salesman " (Christian musical instruments followed by a until 1968 when she added the color proofs as well as drawings. Gallerv of Art. circus performers from Picasso's is set for the week of August 23. Blackwood. 1985. 83 minutes): tour of some of these instruments rose period; and Matisse's landmark August 29 at 6:00. represented in Proust: A Writer's Life (Sarah works of art. On fauve painting, Bonheur de vivre Saturday. August 7. from 10:15 - recently conserved Repentant death are among the most important Mondale and Sarah Patton, 1992, 60 Georges de La Tour's (The Joy of Life) (1905-1906), an noon. Space Magdalene (c. 1640) and another ideas explored by the artist in minutes); August 4 through 7 at is limited; to register Repentant Magdalene exuberant and sensual depiction call (202) 842-6249. version by La Tour on the same autograph versions. The exhibition, Henri Matisse. The Music Lesson (La Leqon de musique). 1917 12:30, August 8 at 12:00. of an earthly paradise. Another through September 6, 1993 theme from the Los Angeles County organized by the National Gallery, is © 1993 The Barnes Foundation Museum of Art. La Tour (1593- accompanied by a brochure that important focus of the exhibition is Memoirs of a Movie Palace West Building. Main Floor 1644) often produced similar addresses the significance of these Matisse's monumental mural The (Christian Blackwood, 1980, 45 Gallery 33 Born in 1872 Self-Guided Tour Walking Tour paintings of a theme, altering the paintings and their place in La Dance (Merioii Dance Mural) and raised in Phila Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as minutes) and My Life for Zarah (1932-1933), commissioned by Dr. delphia, Barnes financed his tuition an educational institution to "pro Brochures for Brochures Celebrating the four-hundredth composition to emphasize its differ Tour s oeuvre. The show will travel Leander (Christian Blackwood, Barnes specially to fit the lunettes for medical school by boxing and mote the advancement of education anniversary of the birth of Georges ent aspects. These portraits of to the Los Angeles County Museum 1986, 83 minutes); August 7 at 2:30. Families Landscape Paintings at the National above the windows in the main hall playing semi-professional baseball. and the appreciation of the fine arts." de La Tour, this focus exhibition the repentant sinner renouncing her of Art from October 6, 1993, Gallery of Art focuses on interpre of The Barnes Foundation in Merion, He received an M.D. degree at the A ten-minute video, narrated by Portraits & Personalities guides features the National Gallery's worldly goods and meditating on through January 16, 1994. Motel (Christian Blackwood, 1989, tations of nature in nineteen families with children ages eight to Euro Pennsylvania. It is displayed along age of 21, and a few years later Joanne Woodward, focuses on the 86 minutes); August 8 at 6:00. pean and American paintings ten on an interactive exploration with the newly restored Unfinished entered the pharmaceutical business. origins and purposes of the collection produced over of seven famous works including the last five centuries. Dance Mural, another version by Financial success enabled him to and Barnes pioneering role as an Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract The brochure is made David's painting Napoleon in His possible in Matisse, which was recently dis amass one of the world's greatest American collector of modern art. Painter (Marion Cajori and Christian part by a gift from Lee and Juliet CLOSING EXHIBITIONS Study and two marble busts of covered. This is the mural's first private art collections. At first he The program was made possible by Blackwood, 1992, 58 minutes); Folger/The Folger Fund. Available Voltaire by Houdon. Available at public appearance. focused his efforts on contemporary The Circle of the National Gallery of August 11 through 14 at 12:30, in the West Building Art Information Lovis Corinth: Master the West Building Main Floor Art Great French Paintings from The American painting and on French Art and The International Corporate August 15 at 12:00. Information Room. Room and at the East Building Art Prints and Drawings Barnes Foundation at the National impressionist, post-impressionist, Circle. Showings are continuous in Information Desk. Shapes & Patterns, for families Gallery of Art is supported by a and early modern works. He also the East Building Small Auditorium Edith Head (Christian Blackwood, from the Marcy grant from GTE Corporation. The collected African tribal sculpture, on the concourse level, starting at with children ages four to eight, "/ am Still Learning, ": Late Works 1981. 28 minutes) and Observations National Gallery of Art and The Greek and Egyptian antiquities, 11:30 a.m. An audio tour narrated focuses on aspects of the East by Masters examines works by such Family and the under the Volcano (Christian Barnes Foundation are exhibition metalwork, native American art, and by Earl A. Powell III, director of the Building's art and architecture of artists as Titian, Rembrandt, National Gallery Blackwood, 1984, 85 minutes); co-organizers. watercolors and drawings. In 1922 National Gallery, is available at the particular interest to younger Winslow Homer, Paul Cezanne and August 14 at 2:30. of Art Barnes established The Barnes Foun entrance to the exhibition. visitors. Available at the East Henri Matisse, who pursued their art dation, which was chartered in the A 318-page catalogue includes Building Art Information Desk. in their last years with continuing September 12, 1993 - All By Myself: A Musical Drama with PASS SYSTEM 323 illustrations, 154 of which are Both brochures are made possible creativity and inspiration. Available Eartha Kitt (Christian Blackwood, February 21, 1994 in full color, as well as essays and by a grant from the Vira I. Heinz in the West Building Main Floor Art Admission to the exhibition 1982. 85 minutes); August 15 at 6:00. East Building, Ground Floor Endowment. Approximate time for Great French Paintings from Special Exhibition entries by twelve eminent American Information Room. Northeast Galleries each tour is 45 minutes. The Barnes Foundation: Impres Lecture Series and French art historians and Wild Wheels (Harrod Blank, 1992, curators. The exhibition will travel Lovis Corinth was one of the most sionist, Post-Impressionist, and 60 minutes); August 18 through 21 to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, Sep important figures in turn-of-the- Early Modern, on view at the Albert C. Barnes and at 12:30, August 22 at 1:00. tember 6, 1993-January 2, 1994; century German art. Fie became a Gallery through August 15, Modern French Painting New Gallery Guide Exhibition 1993, requires a pass. Same-day the National Museum of Western Art leading exponent of the avant-garde An eight-part series by the staff of 5am Fuller (Christian Blackwood, and advance passes may be in Tokyo, January 21-April 3, 1994; A comprehensive survey of the Gal Catalogues Old Manor House, Marylebone, c. 1770, movement, evolving a distinctly 1981, 18 minutes); Roger Corman: the Education Division focusing on and the Philadelphia National Gallerv of Art. Promised Gift of William B. O'Neal personal obtained free of charge at the Museum of Art. lery's collections, National Gallery style. This exhibition of the collections of Albert C. Barnes Hollywood's Wild Angel (Christian Great French Paintings from The Gallery's East Building at Fourth of Art, seventy Corinth prints and drawings, Blackwood, 1978, 58 minutes); and Washington, is available in a Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, continues. 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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 the Red Line. Archives on the Yellow Line, and Smithsonian on the Blue/Orange Line. 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. 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Hours of operation are: CONCOURSE BUFFET Monday-Friday 10:00 to 4:00 Saturday 10:00 to 4:00 Sunday 11:00 to 5:00 GARDEN CAFE Monday-Friday 11:30 to 4:00 Saturday 11:30 to 4:00 Sunday 12:00 to 5:00 CASCADE ESPRESSO BAR Monday-Friday 12:00 to 4:30 Saturday 10:00 to 4:30 Sunday 11:00 to 5:30 TERRACE CAFE SUMMER HOURS through August 15 Monday-Thursday 11:30 to 4:00 Friday, Saturday 11:30 to 4:00 (11:30 to 6:30 through August 15) Sunday 12:00 to 4:00 (12:00 to 6:30 through August 15) COVER: Vincent van Gogh,Joseph-Etiennettoulin, 1889 © 1993 The Barnes Foundation