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Hans Baldung Grien: Prints and Drawings

January 25 – April 5, 1981
East Building, Ground Floor, Northeast, Pod I (3,000 sq. ft.)

Hans Baldung Grien, Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1516, black chalk on two joined sheets of laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1980.12.1

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

Overview: 89 examples from 7 American and 11 European collections were brought together in this special exhibition devoted to the work of the 16th-century German Renaissance artist.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by Alan Shestack, director of Yale University Art Gallery. Gaillard Ravenel, Mark Leithauser, and Alan Shestack designed the exhibition, and Gordon Anson designed the lighting for the National Gallery.

Sponsor: The catalogue was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Attendance: 81,403

Catalog: Hans Baldung Grien: Prints and Drawings, by James H. Marrow and Alan Shestack. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981.

Other Venues: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, April 23–June 14, 1981