National Gallery of Art MARCH Monday, February 26 Monday, March 5 Monday, March 12 Monday, March 19 through through through through Sunday, March 4 Sunday, March 11 Sunday, March 18 Sunday, March 25 COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS February 27-March 4 March 6-March 11 March 13-March 18 March 20-March 25 Brief gallery talks given by Education Henri Rousseau Claude Monet Sir Joshua Reynolds Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Department lecturers on a single work of art. Tropical Forest with Monkeys The Seine at Giverny Squire Musters Work Reproductions of the works discussed may be (John Hay Whitney (Chester Dale Collection) (Given in memory of (Widener Collection) purchased in the Gallery's sales shops; a Collection) West Building, Gallery 90 Governor Alvan T. Fuller by West Building, Gallery 80 written text is available without charge. West Building, Gallery 84 The Fuller Foundation, Inc.) Frances Feldman, Lecturer West Building, Gallery 59 Russell Sale, Lecturer Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. William J. Williams, Lecturer Sunday 2:00 p.m. Philip Leonard, Lecturer SPECIAL TOURS February 27-March 4 March 6-March 11 March 13-March 18 March 20-March 25 One-hour thematic tours given by Education Eighteenth-Century Styles in Frederic Edwin Church Serpents and Beasts as French Painting in the 1890s Department lecturers. England and France East Building Devil's Advocates in Art West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Ground Floor Lobby West Building, Rotunda 1:00p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Eric Denker. Lecturer Sunday 2:30 p.m. Philip Leonard, Lecturer Sally Shelburne, Lecturer William J. Williams. Lecturer FILMS February 26-March 4 March 5-March 11 March 12-March 18 March 19-March 25 Free films on art and feature films related to Claes Oldenburg (Michael Islands (Albert and David Horowitz Plays Mozart Matisse, Voyages (Didier special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are Blackwood, 1975, 52 min.) Maysles, 1986, 58 min.) (Albert Maysles, 1987, Baussy, 1988, 58 min.) available on a first-come, first-served basis. Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 50 min.) Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 Wed., Thurs., Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 East Building Auditorium Sun. 1:00 Dog's Dialogue (Raul Ruiz, On Top of the Whale (Raul La Vocation suspendue (Raul The East Building will close at 6:00p.m. on 1977, 22 rnin.); The Real Ruiz, 1982, 90 min., Three Sad Tigers (Raul Ruiz, Ruiz, 1977, 97 min.) Sundays, but the Fourth Street entrance will Presence (Raul Ruiz, 1983, introduced by Raul Ruiz) 1968, 105 min.) Sat. 2:30 remain open only for film audiences 60 min.); Snakes and Sat. 2:00 Sat. 2:30 Ladders (Raul Ruiz, 1980, Life is a Dream (Raul Ruiz, 20 min.) Of Great Events and The Hypothesis of the Stolen 1986, 100 min.) Sun. 7:00 Ordinary People (Raul Ruiz, Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978, Sun. 6:00 1979, 63 min.) and La 67 min.) The Landscapes of Frederic Colonia penal (Raul Ruiz, Sun. 7:00 Edwin Church (National 1971, 68 min.) Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min.) Sun. 7:00 The Landscapes of Frederic Henri Matisse, Landscape, Viewed from a Window, 1912/1913, State Pushkin Mon., Wed. through Fri. 2:00 Edwin Church (National Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Sun. 6:00 The Landscapes of Frederic Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min. Edwin Church (National Mon., Wed., Thurs. 2:00 Of Great, Events and Ordinary People, by Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min. Sim. 6:00 Raul Ruiz, 1979, to be shown March 11 Wed. through Fri. 2:00 (The International Film Circuit, New York) Mon., Sun. 6:00 SUNDAY LECTURES March 4 March 18 March 25 Free lectures given by distinguished scholars. Art and Social Activism Rembrandt's Walks around Lost and Found: Matisse s Conversations with Artists, V No reservations needed but seating is limited. in the Thirties Amsterdam Moroccan Sketchbooks Pat Steir Sunday 4:00 p.m. Milton Brown Boudewijn Bakker Jack Co wart Artist, New York East Building Auditorium Samuel H. Kress Professor Chief Curator Curator of and Center for Advanced Study Municipal Archives Twentieth-Century Art Kathan Brown in the Visual Arts Amsterdam National Gallery of Art President, Crown Point Press National Gallery of Art San Francisco (see reverse side for details) SUNDAY CONCERTS March 11 March 18 March 25 Free concerts by the National Gallery National Gallery Orchestra Glenda Maurice, Vienna String Trio Stephen Honigberg, cello Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. George Manos, Conductor mezzo-soprano Kathryn Brake, piano Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Henriette Schellenberg, Ruth Palmer, piano Works by Mozart, von Einem, All concerts are broadcast live by soprano and Beethoven Works by Bach, Schubert, and WGMS 103.5 FM Works by Poulenc, Vaughan Shostakovich Works by Bach, Williams, and Korngold Sunday 7:00p.m. Rachmaninoff, arid West Building, East Garden Court Villa-Lobos The West Building will close at 6:00 p.m. on Sundays, but concert audiences can enter through the Constitution Avenue and Fourth Street entrances. National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Special Program: Film Programs Rembrandt's Landscapes: Selections and Conversations with Artists, V East Building Auditorium Drawings and Prints Transformations: Sunday, March 25 Matisse, Voyages, a new hour-long film pro­ March 11-May 20, 1990 The Art of John Marin 4:00 p.m. duced for the Centre Georges Pompidou by East Building, Ground Floor East Building Auditorium French director Didier Baussy, will have its Through April 15, 1990 A selection Washington premiere March 21 through 25. of 96 works, including more than West Building, Central Gallery In celebration of the exhibition, The 1980s: Two films by noted documentarian Albert 50 drawings and 26 landscape prints, many in Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, Selections and Transformations: The Art of Maysles, Islands about the environmental two or more impressions, are on view in the the National Gallery will hold the fifth in a East John Marin is the first comprehensive exhi­ sculptor Christo arid Horowitz Plays Mozart, Building. This is the first major exhibition series of "Conversations with Artists." Partici­ devoted bition in twenty years to examine the work of will be shown during the weeks of March 5 and to Rembrandt's landscape drawings pants will be the renowned painter arid print twentieth-century American artist John Marin. - March 12 respectively. and prints and will be seen only at the maker Pat Steir, who is represented in the show National The exhibition, which is being shown in The series "The Films of Raul Ruiz" begins Gallery. Although Rembrandt; is Rembrandt van Rijn, Tim if indit/ill. iO-ii. .Vuional by The Wave From the Sea After Leonardo, known Gallery of Art. Gift of W. G. Russell Alien Washington only, includes 147 oil paintings, on Sunday, March 4 and continues on weekends primarily as a figure painter, his draw­ Hokusai, & Courbet, and Kathan Brown, ings and prints watercolors, drawings, and etchings, repre­ through the end of March. Although his work is have endured as the archetypes founder and director of Crown Point Press, the of Dutch senting the extensive body of work by Marin not well-known in the United States, Raul landscape. None of his contem­ distinguished San Francisco print workshop. poraries that is centra] to an understanding of American Ruiz a native of Chile who has been living in matched his breadth as a landscapist, Among their topics will be the many projects in either modernism. Iri addition to the significant France since the early 1970s enjoys a consid­ theme or technique, nor did anyone on view, some for the first time in the United they have shared, the challenges of working in convey public and private collections throughout the erable reputation in Europe and is often com­ more effectively the look and feel of the States. Included also are such extraordinary print studios throughout the world, and the U.S., many of the works in the exhibition have pared to Jean-Euc Godard. His carefully Dutch countryside. prints as The Three Trees and The Gold- extraordinary vitality of contemporary been drawn from the Gallery's own Marin wrought visual style contains frequent allusions The works in the exhibition are arranged weigher's Field. John Marin. Woolworlh Building, No. 28, 1912. National printmaking. holdings, one of the foremost collections of his Gallery of Art, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Mever to subjects as diverse as French nineteenth- thematically in five segments to highlight A fully illustrated catalogue published by Rembrandt's work in the world. century painting, popular culture, baroque distinctive approach to different the National Gallery accompanies the types A fully illustrated catalogue, co-published theater, surrealist cinema, and the qualite of landscapes, ranging from views of exhibition, which is supported by an indemnity simple by the National Gallery and Abbeville Press, franqaise cinematic tradition. Ruiz, in residence cottages to vast panoramas. Many of from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Rembrandt's Inc., accompanies the exhibition. at Harvard University this year, will be present greatest landscape drawings are Humanities. to introduce the program on March 10. Reinstallation Matisse In Morocco of Bellini and Twentieth-Century Art: The talks are Titian The given by Graduate Lecturing Current Exhibition The Paintings and Drawings, Feast of the Gods Selections for the Tenth Fellows in the Education Department. All talks Catalogues Through April 29, Anniversary of the East begin at 2:00 p.m. 1912-1913 1990 Twentieth-Century Painting and West Building, Main Floor Galleries Building The Renaissance Self-image: Italian A USA/USSR Joint Project Medals Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth from the Kress Collection The newly restored painting, The Feast oj the Through December 31, 1990 A nniversary of the East Building $19.95 March 18-June 3, 1990 Saturday, March 3; Barbara Baxter Gods, originally painted in 1514 by Giovianni East East Building, Mezzanine and Building Meet at the West Building Bellini and later repainted by Titian can be Rotunda A Profile of the East Building $15.00 Concourse, Upper Level, and Tower Upper Level clearly seen for the first time in centuries.