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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Smith College Museum of Art

May 16 – June 14, 1970
Ground Floor, Central Gallery (4,000 sq. ft.)

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: Shown were 58 paintings primarily by 19th-century French and American artists, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Thomas Eakins. Construction of a new art complex in Northampton made it possible for these works from the Smith College Museum of Art to travel.

Organization: The exhibition was circulated by the American Federation of Arts.

Catalog: 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings from the Collection of the Smith College Museum of Art, by Mira Matherny Fabian, Michael Wentworth, and Charles Chetham. Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College Museum of Art, 1970.

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