National Gallery of Art Washington, B.C. 20565 Official Business Penalty for Private Use, $300 CALENDAR OF EVENTS December 1978 Painting Tours Films Sunday Sunday of the Week Lecture Concert MONDAY, Delacroix. Columbus and The Exhibition of Hubert The New York School The Role of Drawings in Marjorie Lee, Pianist November 27 His Son at La Rabida Robert: Drawings and (55 min.) Fragonard's Work (Chester Dale Collection) Watercolors West Building, through East Building, Speaker: Eunice East Garden Court 7:00 Williams, Assistant SUNDAY, West Building, West Building, Rotunda Auditorium Curator of Drawings, Gallery 93 December 3 Fogg Art Museum, Tues. through Sat. 1:00; Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Harvard University, Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Sun. 2:30 & 2:00; Sun. 1:00 Cambridge & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Introduction to the East Building, Collection Auditorium 4:00 West Building, Rotunda Mon. through Sat. 11:00 & 3:00; Sun. 5:00 MONDAY Duccio. The Calling of The Exhibition of Corot (18 min.) The Search for Identity: Michael Hume, Tenor December 4 the Apostles Peter and Drawings by Fragonard Monet in London (18 min.) Domenico Ghirlandaio's Fred Scott, Pianist Andrew Portraiture through (Samuel H. Kress West Building, Rotunda East Building, West Building, SUNDAY, Collection) Auditorium Speaker: Everett Fahy, East Garden Court 7:00 December 10 Tues. through Sat. 1:00; Director, West Building, Sun. 2:30 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 The Frick Collection, Gallery 3 & 2:00; Sun. 1:00 New York Introduction to the Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Collection East Building, & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Auditorium 4:00 West Building, Rotunda Mon. through Sat. 11:00 & 3:00; Sun. 5:00 MONDAY, Andrea della Robbia. Eighteenth-Century Robert Mother-well The Christmas Story in Art National Gallery December 11 Madonna and Child with French Painting (28 min.) Orchestra Cherubim Barnett Newman Speaker: Richard Richard Bales, Conductor through (Andrew W. Mellon West Building, Rotunda (27 min.) McLanathan, Martha Steiger, Soprano SUNDAY, Collection) Art Historian and Author, December 17 Tues. through Sat. 1:00; East Building, Washington West Building, West Building, Sun. 2:30 Auditorium East Garden Court 7:00 West Garden Court East Building, Introduction to the Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Auditorium 4:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Collection & 2:00; Sun. 1:00 & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 ffi West Building, Rotunda Mon. through Sat. 11:00 & 3:00; Sun. 5:00 MONDAY, Picasso. Lady with a Fan Introduction to the Watteau (18 min.) December 18 (Gift of the W. Averell Collection Fragonard (6 min.) Harriman Foundation) There will not be a Sunday Lecture, Sunday through West Building, Rotunda East Building, Concert or educational services on Christmas Eve, SUNDAY, East Building, Auditorium December 24 December 24 Mezzanine Level, Mon. through Sat. 11:00 North Gallery & 3:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 The National Gallery will be closed on Christmas Day & 2:00; Sun. 1:00 & 3:30 and will close on Christmas Eve at 5:00 p.m. Tues. through Sat. 12:00 &2:00 Introduction to the Collection East Building, Ground Floor Lobby Tues. through Sat. 1:00 TUESDAY, David. Napoleon in His Introduction to the Edvard Munch: Prints December 26 Study Collection (27 min.) (Samuel H. Kress through Collection) West Building, Rotunda East Building, There will not be a Sunday Lecture or Sunday SUNDAY, Auditorium Concert on New Year's Eve, December 31 December 31 West Building, Tues. through Sat. 1:00; Gallery 56 Sun. 2:30 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 The National Gallery will be closed on New Year's & 2:00; Sun 1:00 & 3:30 Day and will close on New Year's Eve at 5:00 p.m. Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Introduction to the & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 Collection East Building, Ground Floor Lobby Tues. through Sat. 11:00 & 3:00 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 20565 EXHIBITIONS December 1978 Edvard Munch: Symbols and Images The exhibition concentrates on cycles and themes Munch pursued throughout his career. Through February 19, 1979 It begins with seventeen paintings from the Special Exhibition Galleries "Love" cycle, devoted to an exploration of East Building love and death, which Much exhibited in Ber­ lin in 1895. The second section, "The Mir­ ror," contains twenty-six lithographs and woodcuts paralleling the images in the "Love" cycle and is installed in the manner of a show held in Oslo in 1897. The exhibition continues with a chronological survey of Munch's career, in addition to twenty self-portraits and nine watercolors. The next eight sections feature the various themes Munch pursued throughout his life in paintings, prints, and drawings: "The Voice," "The Kiss," "The Madonna," "The Sick Anxiety. Edvard Munch Child," "Fever/the Deathbed," "Death in the Munch-Museet, Oslo Sickroom," and "Metabolism," and concludes with a section devoted to Munch's most spec­ Two hundred forty-five paintings, prints, tacular master prints. drawings, watercolors, woodblocks and an il­ lustrated manuscript volume, The Tree of Knowledge, are on view in the most com­ Film: In conjunction with the exhibition, the prehensive exhibition ever held in the United Gallery will show Edvard Munch: Prints, a States of the work of the Norwegian artist Ed­ film describing the graphics techniques vard Munch (1863 1944). The works come to Munch used to achieve special qualities in his the National Gallery from public collections etchings, drypoints, woodcuts, and lithog­ in Norway, where most of Munch's art is raphs, in the East Building auditorium the found, as well as from public and private col­ week of December 26. (Check listing for de­ lections in Europe and the United States. tails.) Drawings by Fragonard in North Fragonard's drawings reveal an astonishing American Collections range of interests and subjects and a virtuoso command of style and media. In addition to Hubert Robert: Drawings and red-chalk drawings of figures and scenic Watercolors views, there are landscapes of lyrical inspira­ tion and scenes of narrative and romance. Through January 21, 1979 Robert, in his drawings and watercolors, Graphics Exhibition Galleries demonstrated a continuing interest in nature West Building, Ground Floor and the transient character of man's accom­ plishments. During his study in Rome, he be­ came preoccupied with architectural ruins real and imaginary, ancient and contem­ porary giving rise to his nickname "Robert des Ruines." Lectures and Tours: The Sunday Lecture on December 3 will be devoted to the Fragonard exhibition. The Tours of the Week for the first The Letter. Jean-Honore Fragonard three weeks in December will focus on the The Art Institute of Chicago exhibitions and French eighteenth-century These two unprecedented exhibitions, one of painting in the Gallery's collection. (Check sixty-nine drawings by Jean-Honore listing for details.) Fragonard (1732-1806) and the other of sixty-two drawings and watercolors of Hubert Films: Two short films on the eighteenth- Robert (1733-1808), illuminate two of the century French painters Antoine Watteau and most gifted French artists of the eighteenth Fragonard will be shown the week of De­ century. cember 18. (Check listing for details.) French Printmaking in the Time of Complementing the Fragonard and Robert Fragonard and Robert exhibitions is a third, selected from the Gal­ lery's collection, to illuminate further the ar­ Through January 21, 1979 tistic milieu in which the two artists worked. Graphics Exhibition Galleries Approximately forty prints by the artists and West Building, Ground Floor their contemporaries are of view. The Pleasant Dangers of the Swing (detail) Nicolas de Launay (after Fragonard) National Gallery of Art, Washington Christmas Items Thirty-four Christmas card subjects of works in the Gallery's collection, including the 1978 Publications Rooms U.S. Christmas stamp, Madonna and Child West Building, Concourse, by Andrea della Robbia, are currently avail­ and East Building able. In addition, twenty-four note folders, six large-sized note folders, and four selections of wrapping paper of subjects from the Index of American Design are for sale. The 1979 wall calendar features traditional landscapes from the permanent collection, and the 1979 desk calendar includes fifty-four architectural photographs of the new East Building. An extensive selection of art books and Gallery exhibition posters is also for sale..