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

Overview: Approximately 75 northern and central European paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures came from Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum, known for its collection of 20th-century German art. Paintings by German expressionists Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Emile Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, sculpture by Ernst Barlach, Georg Kolbe, and Renee Sintenis, as well as works by Bauhaus artists were shown.

Organization: The exhibition was coordinated by E.A. Carmean Jr.

Attendance: 122,067

Brochure: The Busch-Reisinger Museum: The Twentieth-Century Collection, by E.A. Carmean Jr. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980.