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American Painting

Selected Tours
American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
Mary Cassatt: Selected Paintings
John Singleton Copley
Portraits of the Founding Benefactors
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart Paints the First Five Presidents
Selected African American Artists
Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner: Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s

In-Depth Studies
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
Exploring Themes in American Art
American Impressionism and Realism
John Singleton Copley: Watson and the Shark
William Harnett: Trompe l'Oeil
Jasper Johns: Perilous Night
Thomas Moran
Jackson Pollock: Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist)
Edward Ruscha: Lisp
Frederic Remington
Mark Rothko
Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)

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Winslow Homer: Right and Left (Download RealPlayer)

British Painting

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British Conversation Pieces and Portraits of the 1700s
Constable and Turner: British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
Britain's Royal Academy of Art in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s
British and American History Paintings of the 1700s

Dutch and Flemish Painting 17th centuries

Selected Tours
Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s
Dutch Still Lifes and Landscapes of the 1600s
Frans Hals
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s

In-Depth Studies
Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Verspronck: Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer

French and Italian Painting 17th century

Selected Tours
Seventeenth-Century French Painting
The Emergence of New Genres

In-Depth Studies
Valentin de Boulogne: Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats)

French and Italian Painting 18th century

Selected Tours
18th-Century France: Boucher and Fragonard
18th-Century France: Chardin and Portraiture
18th-Century France: The Rococo and Watteau
18th- and 19th-Century France: Neoclassicism

In-Depth Studies
Claude Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck

French Painting 19th century

Selected Tours
Manet and His Influence
The Beginnings of Impressionist Landscape
Impressionism
Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne
Paul Gauguin
Mary Cassatt, Auguste Renoir
Mary Cassatt: Selected Paintings
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Romantics and Realists

In-Depth Studies
Edgar Degas: The Dance Lesson
Edouard Manet: The Railway
Edouard Manet: The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight
Small French Paintings

Virtual Exhibition Tours
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Download QuickTime)

Italian Painting 13th-14th centuries

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Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and 1300s
Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries

Italian Painting 15th century

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Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries
The Early Renaissance in Florence
Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence
Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance

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Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi: The Adoration of the Magi
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Italian Painting 16th century

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Raphael
Venice and the North
Fresco Cycle with the Story of Procris and Cephalus
The Feast of the Gods
Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Mannerism
Titian and the Late Renaissance in Venice
Venetian Painting in the Later Sixteenth Century

In-Depth Studies
Jacopo Bassano: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Northern European Painting 15th-16th centuries

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Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
15th- and Early 16th-Century Germany
Netherlandish and Spanish Altarpieces in the Late 1400s and Early 1500s
Antwerp in the Early 1500s

Spanish Painting

Selected Tours
El Greco
Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Francisco de Goya

In-Depth Studies
Pablo Picasso: The Tragedy

Painting and Sculpture 20th century

Selected Tours
Selections from the 20th-Century Collections
Selected African American Artists

In-Depth Studies
Alexander Calder: Vertical Constellation with Bomb
Henri Matisse: The Fauves
Jasper Johns: Perilous Night
Pablo Picasso: The Tragedy
Jackson Pollock: Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist)
Mark Rothko
Edward Ruscha: Lisp
Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)
Édouard Vuillard: Place Vintimille

Virtual Exhibition Tours
Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 (Download QuickTime)

European Sculpture 14th-19th centuries

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Florentine Sculpture of the 15th Century
Marble Sculpture from France

Sculpture Galleries

Decorative Arts

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Chinese Porcelains
French Renaissance Ceramics
Italian Cabinet Galleries
Italian Renaissance Ceramics
Medieval Metalwork and Enamels
Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
Production of French Decorative Arts in the 1700s
Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s

In-Depth Studies
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914

Prints and Drawings

Selected Tours
M.C. Escher: Life and Work
Works on Paper from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection
Selections from John James Audubon: The Birds of America (1827-1838)
Winslow Homer Watercolors: A Survey of Themes and Styles
Mary Cassatt: Selected Color Prints

In-Depth Studies
Rembrandt van Rijn: Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Virtual Exhibition Tours
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press (Download QuickTime)

Photographs

Selected Tours
Selected Photographs from the Collection

In-Depth Studies
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty
Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)

Index of American Design

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Costumes
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Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
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Pennsylvania German Folk Art
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Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions
Gerard ter Borch
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All the Mighty World:
The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 - 1860
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Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
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Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions
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Palace and Mosque:
Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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American Masters from Bingham to Eakins:
The John Wilmerding Collection
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Permanent Installations
Sculpture Galleries: Permanent Collection
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Italian Cabinet Galleries
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The Armand Hammer Collection
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Shaw Memorial
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Small French Paintings
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Mark Rothko: The Mural Projects
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Sol Lewitt: Wall Drawing #65
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Henri Matisse, Cutouts
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National Gallery Sculpture Garden
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The Dutch Cabinet Galleries
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
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Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection
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Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits

André Kertész

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors:
The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

Jan de Bray and the Classical Tradition

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
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Gilbert Stuart

Irving Penn: The Platinum Prints

Exhibitions on Tour
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
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The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera:
Memory, Politics, Place
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The Art of Romare Bearden
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The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
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Virtual Tours of Exhibitions
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Alexander Calder: 1898 - 1976
Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press

Past Exhibitions: Information (1941-2002)

Past Exhibitions: Online Resources (1997-2004)
1997
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press
Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
1998
A Design for the National Gallery of Art: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of I.M.Pei's East Building
Alexander Calder: 1898 - 1976
Degas at the Races
Mark Rothko
Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
Van Gogh's Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
1999
American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection
From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art
Photographs from the Collection
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ": Saints and Sinners in Baroque Painting
Mary Cassatt
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China
The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting
2000
Martin Johnson Heade
Carleton Watkins, The Art of Perception
Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
Gerrit Dou: Master Painter in the age of Rembrandt
The Triumph of the Baroque, Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750
The Impressionists at Argenteuil
Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
Prints Abound, Paris in the 1890s
2001
Modern Art and America, Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
The Unfinished Print
Spirit of an Age, Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Virtue and Beauty, Leonardo's "Ginevra de' Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women
Aelbert Cuyp
Henry Moore
Best Impressions, 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
A Century of Drawing, Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
The Flowering of Florence, Botanical Art for the Medici
Goya: Images of Women
An American Vision, Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
Deceptions and Illusions, Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
Drawing on America's Past, Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
2003
Édouard Vuillard
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938
Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment
The East Building: Celebrating 25 Years
Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte
The Art of Romare Bearden
Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853
2004
Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
Drawings of Jim Dine
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
"That the Freedom of the Human Spirit Shall Go On" World War II and the National Gallery of Art
Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions

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The Art Zone
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Adventures with Art (Activities & Projects)
   James Jacques Joseph Tissot's "Hide and Seek"
   Rogier van der Weyden's "Saint George and the Dragon"
   George Catlin's Paintings of Native Americans
   Martin Johnson Heade's "Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds"
   Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon in His Study"
   Wassily Kandinsky's "Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)"
   Frank Stella's "Jarama II"
   John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark"
Postcard Tours
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   "The Art of Romare Bearden" Children's Guide (PDF 900k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
   "Édouard Vuillard" Family Guide
   "The Quest for Immortality: The Art of Ancient Egypt" Family Guide (PDF 684k) (Download Acrobat Reader)

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