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Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800
October 1, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Robert Bergman: Portraits
October 11, 2009 – Janurary 10, 2010

The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works
October 1, 2009 – May 2, 2010

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
January 31, 2010 – July 31, 2011

An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
July 4, 2009 – November 1, 2009

The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle
July 4, 2009 – November 1, 2009

The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
June 28, 2009 – November 1, 2009

Judith Leyster, 1609 - 1660
June 21, 2009 – November 29, 2009

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction
May 31, 2009 – August 23, 2009

Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
May 17, 2009 – August 23, 2009

The Beffi Triptych: Preserving Abruzzo's Cultural Heritage
May 15, 2009 – Indefinitely

Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
May 3, 2009 – August 9, 2009

Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art
March 1, 2009 – August 2, 2009

Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes in the Golden Age
February 1, 2009 – May 3, 2009

Looking In: Robert Frank's “The Americans”
January 18, 2009 – April 26, 2009

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
October 26, 2008 – January 11, 2009

Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
October 19, 2008 – March 22, 2009

Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz
October 12, 2008 – March 15, 2009

George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
September 14, 2008 – January 4, 2009

Martin Puryear
June 22, 2008 – September 28, 2008

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
May 25, 2008 – September 1, 2008

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
May 25, 2008 – September 7, 2008

Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
May 4, 2008 – November 2, 2008

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
March 2, 2008 – June 8, 2008

Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
February 3, 2008 – May 4, 2008

Bronze and Boxwood:Renaissance Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection
January 27, 2008 – May 4, 2008

Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings
November 19, 2007 – March 18, 2007

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
October 28, 2007 – March 30, 2008

The Baroque Woodcut
October 28, 2007 – March 30, 2008

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
October 7, 2007 – December 31, 2007

J.M.W. Turner
October 1, 2007 – January 6, 2007

Edward Hopper
September 16, 2007 – January 21, 2008

Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence
July 1, 2007 – October 8, 2007

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
June 10, 2007 – September 3, 2007

Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum
May 27, 2007 – August 12, 2007

Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
May 6, 2007 – September 16, 2007

Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450-1700
May 6, 2007 – September 16, 2007

Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art
March 25, 2007 – September 3, 2007

States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns
March 11, 2007 – October 18, 2007

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
January 28, 2007 – April 29, 2007

The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain
November 19, 2006 – March 18, 2007

Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
November 12, 2006 – February 4, 2007

Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings
October 1, 2006 – December 31, 2007

The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938-1958
September 17, 2006 – January 15, 2007

Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida
August 24, 2006 – November 12, 2006

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856-1909)
August 6, 2006 – January 28, 2007

Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
July 16, 2006 – October 15, 2006

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
June 18, 2006 – September 17, 2006

Charles Sheeler: Across Media
May 7, 2006 – August 27, 2006

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections
April 30, 2006 – November 26, 2006

The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art
April 30, 2006 – October 1, 2006

Photographic Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions
March 2, 2006 – July 30, 2006

Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris
February 26, 2006 – May 21, 2006

Dada
February 19, 2006 – May 14, 2006

Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
February 11, 2006 – May 6, 2007

Cézanne in Provence
January 29, 2006 – May 7, 2006

Nick Nixon: The Brown Sisters
November 13, 2005 – February 20, 2006

Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America"
September 25, 2005 – March 26, 2006

Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum
September 25, 2005 – January 2, 2006

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life
September 18, 2005 – December 31, 2005

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele
September 18, 2005 – February 26, 2006

Origins of European Printmaking: 15th Century Woodcuts and Their Public
September 4, 2005 – November 27, 2005

The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea
September 4, 2005 – February 20, 2006

Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art
July 3, 2005 – February 26, 2006

Irving Penn: Platinum Prints
June 19, 2005 – October 2, 2005

Gilbert Stuart
March 27, 2005 – July 31, 2005

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
March 20, 2005 – June 12, 2005

Jan de Bray and the Classical Tradition
March 13, 2005 – August 14, 2005

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(R), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
February 13, 2005 – May 30, 2005

André Kertész
February 6, 2005 – May 15, 2005

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
January 30, 2005 – May 1, 2005

Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection
December 12, 2004 – May 22, 2005

Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
November 14, 2004 – June 5, 2005

Gerard ter Borch
November 7, 2004 – January 30, 2005

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 - 1860
October 17, 2004 – January 2, 2006

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
October 3, 2004 – January 9, 2005

Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 18, 2004 – February 6, 1005

Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
June 27, 2004 – September 26, 2004

Mark Rothko: The Mural Projects
May 25, 2004 – Indefinitely

American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
May 9, 2004 – January 30, 2005

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
April 4, 2004 – July 25, 2004

The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
April 4, 2004 – July 25, 2004

Drawings of Jim Dine
March 21, 2004 – August 1, 2004

Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
February 13, 2004 – March 21, 2004

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853
November 23, 2003 – February 29, 2004

Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
October 26, 2003 – February 16, 2004

The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
October 12, 2003 – January 11, 2004

Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
October 1, 2003 – January 19, 2004

The Art of Romare Bearden
September 14, 2003 – January 4, 2004

Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte
June 29, 2003 – September 28, 2003

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment
May 4, 2003 – September 7, 2003

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
April 13, 2003 – July 13, 2003

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938
March 2, 2003 – June 1, 2003

Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788
February 9, 2003 – May 11, 2003

Édouard Vuillard
January 19, 2003 – April 20, 2003

Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
November 27, 2002 – March 2, 2003

Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
October 13, 2002 – March 2, 2003

Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
September 29, 2002 – January 5, 2003

An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith
September 22, 2002 – February 9, 2003

Anne Vallayer-Coster
June 30, 2002 – September 22, 2002

The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
June 30, 2002 – October 14, 2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
June 2, 2002 – September 2, 2002

An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
May 5, 2002 – October 6, 2002

Goya: Images of Women
March 10, 2002 – June 2, 2002

The Flowering of Florence
March 3, 2002 – May 27, 2002

Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
February 3, 2002 – June 23, 2002

A Century of Drawing
November 18, 2001 – April 7, 2002

Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
November 4, 2001 – January 21, 2002

Henry Moore
October 21, 2001 – January 27, 2002

Aelbert Cuyp
October 7, 2001 – January 13, 2002

Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women
September 30, 2001 – January 6, 2002

The Unfinished Print
June 3, 2001 – October 7, 2001

Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades
June 3, 2001 – October 7, 2001

Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
May 10, 2001 – September 3, 2001

Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
May 6, 2001 – July 29, 2001

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
January 28, 2001 – April 22, 2001

Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s
October 22, 2000 – February 25, 2001

Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
October 8, 2000 – January 28, 2001

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century
October 1, 2000 – February 4, 2001

Small Northern European Portraits from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
September 17, 2000 – February 19, 2001

The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
May 21, 2000 – October 9, 2000

The Impressionists at Argenteuil
May 20, 2000 – August 20, 2000

Raphael and His Circle
May 14, 2000 – July 23, 2000

Gerrit Dou (1613-1675): Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt
April 16, 2000 – August 6, 2000

O'Keeffe on Paper
April 9, 2000 – July 9, 2000

Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
March 5, 2000 – June 11, 2000

Martin Johnson Heade
February 13, 2000 – May 7, 2000

Vermeer's The Art of Painting
November 24, 1999 – February 6, 2000

An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
November 7, 1999 – February 27, 2000

From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
October 24, 1999 – January 9, 2000

Brassa√Ø: The Eye of Paris
October 17, 1999 – January 16, 2000

Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
October 3, 1999 – January 9, 2000

The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
September 26, 1999 – January 9, 2000

The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China
September 19, 1999 – January 2, 2000

Mary Cassatt
June 6, 1999 – September 6, 1999

Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ
May 30, 1999 – July 18, 1999

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
May 23, 1999 – August 22, 1999

Photographs from the Collection
April 25, 1999 – July 5, 1999

John Singer Sargent
February 21, 1999 – May 31, 1999

Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
February 20, 1999 – May 7, 2000

From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art
January 31, 1999 – May 31, 1999

American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection
January 24, 1999 – May 9, 1999

Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
November 15, 1998 – February 15, 1999

Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages
November 8, 1998 – January 31, 1999

Bernini's Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
October 11, 1998 – January 18, 1999

Van Gogh's Van Goghs
October 4, 1998 – January 3, 1999

Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
June 24, 1998 – September 20, 1998

Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris,1887-1900
June 7, 1998 – September 7, 1998

Mark Rothko
May 3, 1998 – August 16, 1998

Alexander Calder: 1898-1976
March 29, 1998 – July 12, 1998

A Design for the National Gallery of Art: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of I.M. Pei's East Building
March 27, 1998 – October 11, 1998

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
November 2, 1997 – March 1, 1998

M.C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute
October 26, 1997 – April 26, 1998

Thomas Moran
September 28, 1997 – January 11, 1998

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
September 21, 1997 – December 14, 1998

Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
March 30, 1997 – July 27, 1997

Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls
March 9, 1997 – January 31, 1999

Six Centuries/Six Artists
February 2, 1997 – May 4, 1997

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