Related Resources Watch a video Part 1 Hi-Res | Lo-Res | iTunes | RSS (8:01 mins.) Part 2 Hi-Res | Lo-Res | iTunes | RSS (6:42 mins.) Hi-Res | iTunes | RSS (3:02 mins.) Exhibition Highlights Attend a Gallery Talk The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Part 1 Part 2 Attend a Lecture Medici of the Modern: Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Attend a Concert National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble Del Sol String Quartet Attend a Teacher Workshop Evening with Educators Postwar Modernism: The Meyerhoff Collection Purchase the exhibition catalogue Works by Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Roy Lichtenstein Brice Marden Robert Rauschenberg Frank Stella in the Gallery's Collection View Related Web Features Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 Jasper Johns, Perilous Night Mark Rothko View Related Collection Tours from Modern and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Education Resource Art Since 1950 (PDF 2.2MB) (Download Acrobat Reader) Press Materials

Ten themes—Scrape, Concentricity, Line, Gesture, Art on Art, Drip, Stripe to Zip, Figure or Ground, Monochrome, and Picture the Frame—illuminate specific works across the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection. The resulting juxtapositions, often surprising and provocative, provide a new way to tell the story of postwar American art, and of a great collection. Through remarkable acuity, exhaustive study, and close relationships with the artists, the Meyerhoffs amassed one of the most outstanding collections of modern art, with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists. A number of the ten themes concern the material process of creation, others address issues of form and composition, and still others extend past material and formal issues to broach the self-reflexive aspects of modernist painting. Some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints include several acquisitions made after the collection was last highlighted in a major exhibition at the Gallery in 1996. All of the works in the exhibition have been donated or promised to the National Gallery of Art and continue to shape and greatly enhance the Gallery's modern and contemporary collection.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art.

Sponsor: This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Schedule: National Gallery of Art, October 1, 2009–May 2, 2010

Passes: Passes are not required for this exhibition.

The exhibition is on view in the National Gallery's East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine.