National Gallery of Art NGAkids FAMILY GUIDES

family & children's guides in PDF format

Download the Inside Scoop on Martin Johnson Heade (PDF, 280 k) .

Learn about the artist's adventures in South America, and share some of the sights and sounds of the rain forest as you view hummingbirds and orchids online.

Download the Inside Scoop on Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci (PDF, 208k)

Learn more about the painting online, and zoom in for a close look. (Flash, 20k)

Get the Inside Scoop on Turner , Lichtenstein, Monet , and Avercamp (PDF, 200k)

John Constable, Canaletto, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Dutch Still Life (PDF, 200k)

Winslow Homer Inside Scoop (PDF, 200k)

The Winslow Homer exhibition closed on February 26, 2006, but many of Homer's paintings are on on view in the American galleries (West Building). The Homer Web feature has additional information about the artist, short video clips about his life, and a zoomable slide show.

Get the Inside Scoop on Andy Goldsworthy. In January 2003, The National Gallery of Art invited Andy Goldworthy to create a site-specific installation. Completed in February 2005, Roof runs the length of the garden area on the north side of the East Building. It will be on view indefinitely.

Get the Inside Scoop (PDF 516k) on Gilbert Stuart. The exhibition closed on July 31, 2005.

Get the Inside Scoop (PDF, 340k) on Rembrandt. The exhibition Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits closed May 1, 2005.

The exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective closed on January 9, 2005. Download the Flavin edition of Inside Scoop in Acrobat format.

Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. (PDF, 648K) The Shaw Memorial will be off view during renovation of the National Gallery’s West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 66, from March 1, 2007, through March 1, 2009.

Inside Scoop Archive (2002–2004)

Get the Inside Scoop on Castagno, Vigée-LeBrun, Copley, Degas, French Fauve landscapes, Rivera, Bearden, and Stella.

Inside Scoop 2002-2004

EXHIBITION GUIDES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

exhibition guides

The Quest for Immortality: The Art of Ancient Egypt Family Guide. (PDF, 684k)

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery, but you can see it at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 2–December 31, 2007.

Download The Art of Romare Bearden Children's Guide in PDF format. The Bearden exhibition at the National Gallery of Art closed January 4, 2004.

Download the Children's Guide to the exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (PDF, 1 MB). The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art closed July 25, 2004.

The exhibition has closed, but the Édouard Vuillard family guide is available online in HTML and PDF format.