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Prints and Drawings from the Rosenwald Collection

December 19, 1943 – February 13, 1944
Ground Floor, Central Gallery

Théodore Gericault, Horses Exercising, 1821, lithograph, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.9079

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: This was the first general exhibition of a representative cross section from the Lessing J. Rosenwald collection. More than 6,500 prints and drawings had been given to the Gallery in March 1943. The selection included works from the 15th to the mid-20th century.

Catalog: Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, by Elizabeth Mongan. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1943.