1. New to NGA Classroom: Painting in the Dutch Golden Age: A Profile of the Seventeenth Century
Now available online, this teaching packet examines the culture and art of one of the world's greatest periods of artistic creativity. The 164-page book features artists' biographies, a timeline, and resource information; individual chapters look at landscape, still life, portraiture, history painting, and scenes of everyday life. Download the PDF from NGA Classroom, where you can explore a searchable library of other teaching packets, videos, and DVDs on various art periods, artists, and cultures.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/dutch/
2. This Month's Featured Artworks from the National Gallery of Art Collection: The Voyage of Life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, Old Age by Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole's renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the "River of Life." From the innocence of childhood, to the flush of youthful overconfidence, through the trials and tribulations of middle age, to the hero's triumphant salvation, The Voyage of Life seems intrinsically linked to the Christian doctrine of death and resurrection. On view in the West Building, Ground Floor, Gallery 39.
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=52167+0+note (The Voyage of Life: Childhood)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=52168+0+note (The Voyage of Life: Youth)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=52169+0+note (The Voyage of Life: Manhood)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=52170+0+note (The Voyage of Life: Old Age)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?5950 (biography of Thomas Cole)
3. New E-mail Newsletters from the National Gallery of Art
In addition to our free monthly Web newsletter, the National Gallery of Art is now offering several new e-mail newsletters, available for subscription via our Web site. The newsletters focus on educators, family programs, fellowships/internships, film programs, lectures, music programs, and teen programs—and are a great way for art lovers to stay up to date with the many events and resources made available by the Gallery.
http://subscribe.nga.gov/subscription_form_ngart.cfm
4. Final Days for Impressed by Light and Bronze and Boxwood
Be sure to visit two outstanding exhibitions in the West Building before they close on May 4. Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 follows the "calotype" movement from the process' invention by William Henry Fox Talbot to its flowering years in the mid-19th century, and Bronze and Boxwood: Renaissance Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection presents bronze sculptures in context with boxwood and ivory carvings.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/britishinfo.htm (Impressed by Light)
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/bronzeinfo.htm (Bronze and Boxwood)
5. Recent Acquisition: Washerwomen on the Banks of the Durance by Paul Guigou
Paul Guigou (1834–1871) was one of a generation of mid-19th-century French landscape painters who, reacting against the cultural domination of Paris, asserted their provincial identity by celebrating their local landscapes and ways of life. Washerwomen on the Banks of the Durance is a work fully characteristic of Guigou. It shows a group of local washerwomen, wrapped against the heat of the sun, at work on the riverbank. His manner of painting is strong and heavily impastoed, a painterly equivalent for the typically rugged Provencal terrain that he favored. On view in the West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 83.
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=135856+0+none
6. Fontainebleau Family Weekend
April 19, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
April 20, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Join us for a weekend of programs featuring In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet. Children and adults can tour the exhibition using family activity booklets, enjoy musical performances and films, and create their own forest scenes to take home.
http://www.nga.gov/programs/family/index.shtm#fontainebleau_fw (family weekend)
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/fontainebleauinfo.shtm (exhibition information)
7. Online Tour: Selected Photographs from the Collection
In the last several years the National Gallery of Art has significantly expanded its photography collection to include a broad spectrum of more than 9,000 19th- and 20th-century photographs, by more than 250 European and American photographers. This online tour celebrates some of those recent additions, including works by pioneer photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, celebrated 19th-century master Julia Margaret Cameron, modernist artists such as Charles Sheeler and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, as well as such observers of modern life as Bill Brandt.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggphoto/ggphoto-main1.html
8. Complete Survey of Renaissance Medals Collections Now Available in the Gallery Shops
The most important public collection of Renaissance-era medals in the United States resides at the National Gallery of Art and is the focus of a new publication, Renaissance Medals. The first comprehensive catalogue of this collection is now available as a two-volume set, and it offers the most detailed art historical and scientific assessment to date. Renaissance Medals is available for sale at the Gallery and through our Web site. Select medals are currently on view in the Sculpture Galleries on the Ground Floor of the West Building.
http://www.nga.gov/shop/index.shtm
9. April Calendar of Events
Plan your visit to the Gallery with the help of the April Calendar of Events. Schedules of films, lectures, gallery talks, family activities, and concerts are listed along with information about each event. Events will be added as they are scheduled. Please check back regularly for the most up-to-date Calendar of Events information.
http://www.nga.gov/programs/calendar
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