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The Sick Girl by Edvard Munch

January 23 – March 26, 1975
Cafeteria Corridor, Auditorium Corridor

Edvard Munch, The Sick Child (Das kranke Madchen), 1894, drypoint, Rosenwald Collection, 1944.14.61

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

Overview: The painting by Munch was on loan from the Munch Museum in Oslo; also shown were prints of the same subject from other lenders. A special display panel was installed for the painting. Brilliantly lit, it dominated the view from the Constitution Avenue entrance lobby. A lithograph and a drypoint from Oslo, with prints of the same subject from other sources, were displayed in the auditorium corridor.

Munch, Edvard
Norwegian, 1863 - 1944