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Special Exhibitions | Focus: the Collection | New Acquisitions | Anatomy of Art
New Acquisitions
"Ferry on a River" by Salomon van Ruysdael
April 4, 7, 9 at 12:00PM
(20 minutes)
West Building

Eric Denker

Special Exhibitions
Bronze and Boxwood: Renaissance Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection
March 11, 14, 30 at 1:00PM
March 24, 26, 28 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

David Gariff or J. Russell Sale

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
March 12, 16, 21, 23 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Diane Arkin

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
March 13, 18, 19, 25, 26 at 1:00PM
April 2, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17 at 1:00PM
May 1, 18, 20 at 1:00PM
May 6–8, 19, 22, 27 at 12:00PM
June 3 at 1:00PM
June 4 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

March and April: Sally Shelburne or other staff lecturers
(60 minutes)
May and June: Sally Shelburne or Diane Arkin

The Baroque Woodcut
March 17–19 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

J. Russell Sale

Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
March 24, 25, 27 at 2:00PM
April 28–30 at 2:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor

Wilford W. Scott

Educators and Curators: In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
April 14, 16, 18, 21 at 12:00PM
April 23 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building

Diane Arkin and Sarah Kennel

Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books—Part 1
May 9, 12, 15 at 1:00PM
June 8 at 1:00PM
June 20 at 11:00AM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

J. Russell Sale

Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books—Part 2
May 22, 24, 29 at 2:00PM
May 23, 25, 27, 28, 30 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Christopher With

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
May 30 at 12:00PM
June 6, 7, 30 at 12:00PM
June 10 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

J. Russell Sale or Carla Brenner

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
June 5, 11, 18, 26 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Sally Shelburne

Focus: The Collection
Cultivating Virtue: Flowers, Fruit, and Symbolic Plants in Renaissance Painting
March 5, 7, 10, 12, 20 at 1:00PM
May 7, 22 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

J. Russell Sale

"Careless Love" by Elizabeth Murray
March 6, 12 at 2:00PM
March 15, 27 at 12:00PM
(30 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Sally Shelburne

The Condition of Contradiction: Works by Lynda Benglis
March 7, 14, 15, 28 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Faye Gleisser

"Dutch Warship Attacking a Spanish Galley" by Cornelis Verbeeck
March 10, 11, 13 at 2:00PM
(20 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Kristin Grubb

The Young at Art: Precocious Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century
March 31 at 12:00PM
April 1–3 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Eric Denker

Impressionism: Open-Air Painting
April 3, 9, 13, 18, 22 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Staff Lecturers

"Pére Paillard" by Paul Gauguin
April 4, 7, 29, 30 at 1:00PM
(20 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

David Gariff

The Rediscovery and Conservation of Albert Bierstadt's "Lake Lucerne"
April 10, 15 at 2:00PM
(30 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Nancy Anderson and Ross Merrill

The Italian Renaissance Domestic Interior
April 11, 12 at 12:00PM
April 19 at 11:00AM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Rosamond Mack

"Cupid" by Edmé Bouchardon
April 14, 16, 20 at 1:00PM
April 17, 19, 22, 25 at 12:00PM
(30 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Christopher With

Varied Images of Saint John the Baptist
May 2, 5 at 1:00PM
June 24 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

J. Russell Sale

Art Brut: The Paintings of Jean Dubuffet
May 4, 13, 16, 21 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

David Gariff

Portraiture and Allegory in Renaissance Medals
May 6, 11, 14 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Stephanie D. Blue

"Untitled (Medici Prince)" by Joseph Cornell
May 8, 10, 11 at 1:00PM
(20 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Andrea Nelson

Recent Acquisitions in French Painting
May 12–16 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Eric Denker

Picture This: Modern Art
May 21 at 2:00PM
June 25 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Sally Shelburne or Wilford W. Scott

Where Art and Nature Meet: Isamu Noguchi's "Great Rock of Inner Seeking"
May 27, 28, 31 at 12:00PM
(20 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Faye Gleisser

The Fauves
May 29 at 12:00PM
June 2, 3, 10 at 12:00PM
June 4, 11 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Diane Arkin

"The Shipwreck" by Claude-Joseph Vernet
June 9, 13, 14 at 1:00PM
(20 minutes)
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda

Lars Kokkonen

Early Modern Sculpture in Europe
June 16, 20, 27, 30 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

David Gariff

Anatomy of Art: Photography in the Nineteenth Century

Gallery talks, lectures, and demonstrations focus on the equipment and processes employed by early photographic artists. Photographs may be viewed in the exhibitions Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 and In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet.

Prints from Paper Negatives: Processes and Preservation
May 1 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
West Building Ground Floor

Connie McCabe, National Gallery of Art
Meet at the entrance to Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860

Why Fontainebleau?
May 16–18 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Russell Lord, independent scholar

Picturing Fontainebleau
May 16, 17 at 2:00PM
May 18 at 3:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Russell Lord, independent scholar

Cliché verre: Drawing and Photography
June 6 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
East Building Ground Level, Information Desk

Kimberly Schenck, National Gallery of Art

Special Exhibitions | Focus: the Collection | New Acquisitions | Anatomy of Art