VENTS APRIL Monday, March 31 Monday, April 7 Monday, April 14 Monday, April 21 through through through through Sunday, April 6 Sunday, April 13 Sunday, April 20 Sunday, April 27 COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS April 1-April 6 April 8-April 13 April 15-April 20 April 22-April 27 Brief gallery talks on a single work of art. William Hogarth Lucas Cranach the Elder Rembrandt Peale Paul Cezanne Reproductions of the art discussed may be The Beggar's Opera The Nymph of the Spring Rubens Peale with Harlequin purchased in the Gallery's sales shops,- (Paul Mellon Collection) (Gift of Clarence Y. Palitz) a Geranium (Collection of Mr. and a text is available without charge. West Building West Building (Patrons' Permanent Fund) Mrs. Paul Mellon) Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Gallery 63 Gallery 35A West Building West Building Sunday 2:00 p.m. Gallery 60A Gallery 57 SPECIAL TOURS April 1 -April 6 April 8-April 13 April 15-April 20 April 22-April 27 Fifty-minute tours on related works of art. Drawings by An Overview of Winslow Homer Early Italian Altarpieces Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. Jacques de Gheyn The Treasure Houses Watercolors from the Collection of the Sunday 2:30 p.m. East Building of Britain: Five Hundred West Building National Gallery of Art Ground Floor Lobby Years of Private Patronage Rotunda West Building and Art Collecting Rotunda West Building Ground Floor Auditorium FILMS April 1-April 6 April 8-April 13 April 16-April 20 April 23-April 27 Free films on art and feature films related Brideshead Revisited to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are Brideshead Revisited Winslow Homer: The Nature John James Audubon: (new episode each day) (new episode each day) of the available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Artist (29 min.) The Birds of America Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Tues. 2:00; Wed. through Wed. through Sat. 12:30 (29 min.) East Building Auditorium Sun. 6:00 Sat. 12:30; Sun. 6:00 Sun. 1:00 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 The Mystery of Picasso Blood and Sand (by Rouben French Cancan (by Jean (by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Mamoulian, 1941, 123 min.) Renoir, 1955, 105 min.) Ordet (by Carl Theodor 1956, 75min.) Sat. 2:30 Sat. 2:30 Dreyer, 1955, 125 min.) Sat. 3:30; Sun. 7:45 Sat. 2:30 Winslow Homer: The Nature Winslow Homer: The Nature of the Artist (29 min.) of the Artist (29min.) Wed. through Fri. 2:00 Wed. through Fri. 2:00 The Mystery of Picasso, The English Garden, by Henri-Georges Clouzot, episodes 1 through 3 to be shown April 5 and 6 (78 min.) Sun. 1:00 French Cancan by Jean Renoir, to be shown April 19 (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) SUNDAY LECTURES April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 Free lectures by distinguished visiting The Peale Family: Confessions of a Confessions of a Confessions of a scholars. No registration needed but Genealogy and Geraniums Twentieth-Century Twentieth-Century Twentieth-Century seating is limited. Composer: Looking at Composer: A Composer's Composer: Ives, Sunday 4:00 p.m. John Wilmerding the Creative Process Thoughts on Classical Music Schoenberg, Stravinsky, East Building Auditorium Deputy Director Bartok, and Hindemith National Gallery of Art Lukas Foss Lukas Foss Composer, Pianist Composer, Pianist Lukas Foss Music Director/Conductor Music Director/Conductor Composer, Pianist Brooklyn Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Music Director/Conductor New York, and New York, and Brooklyn Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony Milwaukee Symphony New York, and Milwaukee Symphony SUNDAY CONCERTS April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 43rd Annual American Musical Festival National Gallery Orchestra Huntingdon Trio Friday Morning Music Free concerts by the National Gallery Club Raymond Herbert, Pianist George Manos, Conductor Composers Centennial Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. Music of Griebling, Foote, Music of Barber, Dello Joio, Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Music of Deems Taylor, Waxman, Zaimont, Hoover Music of Raigorodsky, Vlahopoulos, Copland All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS Randall Thompson, Fritter, Norman, Hyson, 570 AM and 103.5 FM. Richard Bales Ballou, Ferguson, Ho we Sunday 7:00p.m. West Building, West Garden Court National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITION CLOSING EXHIBITIONS Special Course Special Performance Baroque Paintings from The New Painting: Winslow Homer: Man and Nature Meet the Artist: Edgar Degas the John and Mable Ringling Impressionism 1874-1886 Museum of Art In this course, a free four-week series of James Heard, actor-artist from the National Through April 6, 1986 slide lectures, the artist's exceptional water- Gallery in London, will continue his per­ April 6-September 29, 1986 Main Floor Galleries colors will be placed within the overall formances for school groups and families Main Floor Galleries West Building context of his career. The lectures are given with children. Boys and girls will see West Building on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the East "Degas" at work in his studio and have a Commemorating the looth anniversary Building Auditorium. No reservations are chance to help paint Miss Lola, one of his The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, of the last of eight exhibitions held by the required, but space is limited. famous paintings hanging in The New which owns one of America's most noted impressionists from 1874 through 1886, Painting: Impressionism exhibition. collections of baroque paintings, is cele­ a selection of 150 paintings remains on view through April 6 in the West Building's new April 8: The Innocence of Childhood: Performances will be held according to the brating its 4Oth anniversary of state owner­ 19th-century galleries on the Main Floor. The Gloucester and Houghton Farm schedule listed below. The times for ship. To commemorate this occasion a group exhibition represents a view of individual April 15: Man and the Sea: Cullercoats Tuesday through Saturday are 10:30 a.m. of 33 paintings from what is now the State artistic achievement as well as the evolution April 22: Man and the Wilderness: and 12:30 p.m. Sunday performances are Museum of Florida will be on view in the of the impressionist movement and includes The Adirondacks and Quebec 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Free family passes National Gallery's West Building Main Floor. April works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, 29: The Acceptance of Fate: for that day's performances will be distri­ The collection, formed chiefly in the 19205 Pissarro, Sisley, Cassatt, Morisot, Redon, Florida and the Bahamas buted at the West Building Main Floor by John Ringling, the famous circus entre­ Seurat, Gauguin, Boudin, and Caillebotte. Information Desk starting at 10:00 a.m. preneur, and his wife, Mable Burton The New Painting has been made possible until they are gone. Priority will be given to Ringling, includes many exceptional Italian by AT&T. children. and northern baroque masterpieces. Film Series Frans Hals, Pietei Jacobsz. Olycan, 0.1639 No advance reservations for families. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Passes Painting and Cinema Reservations can be made for school groups Passes may be obtained only at the April 5 through June 21 by calling 202/842-6249. exhibition desk on the Main Floor of the East Building Auditorium Tuesday, April I West Building on the day of entry. For further CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS information call 202/842-6690. Beginning Saturday, April 5, afreei2-week West Building Auditorium (families) film and lecture series on Saturday Wednesday, April 2 Recorded Tour West Building Auditorium (school groups) afternoons will explore the ways in which A recorded tour, narrated by J. Carter Brown, Thursday, April 3 painting has influenced the making of Director of the National Gallery, is available West Building Auditorium (school groups) Edgar Degas, The Dance Examination, c.:88o narrative motion pictures. Particular atten­ for rent at the exhibition entrance. The Denver Art Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1941 tion is given to the methods by which film- Friday, April 4 makers have chosen their subjects and West Building Auditorium (school groups) managed the visual effects of their films to Saturday, April 5 reflect painterly values. Included are movies East Building Auditorium (families) The Treasure Houses of Britain: such as Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker, Sunday, April 6 Five Hundred Years of Private which were inspired by specific works of East Building Auditorium (families) art. Five of the 12 films in the series, Patronage and Art Collecting beginning with The Mystery of Picasso, will be introduced by film scholars and critics. Extended through April 13, 1986 Programs last approximately two hours Symposium Mezzanine and Upper Levels unless otherwise noted. See other side for East Building The Center for Advanced Study in the information concerning the films to be Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the Tracing the British country house tradition shown during April. Department of Art, University of Maryland of art collecting over the past 500 years, The at College Park, present the Sixteenth Winslow Homer Watercolors Winslow Homer, The New Novel, 1877 Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition closes Annual Sessions of the Middle Atlantic Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, after an overwhelmingly popular run. The Mellon Lecture Series Symposium in the History of Art, Saturday, Through May n, 1986 The Horace P. Wright Collection installation is evocative of the settings from April 5, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the West Ground Floor Central Gallery which the objects have come more than The Treasure Houses of Britain, Room 7 The 1986 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Building Auditorium. Advanced graduate West Building 200 lending houses, most of which are open Fine Arts will be given by Lukas Foss, students in departments of art history of to the public in Great Britain.