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Sketches by Constable from the Victoria and Albert Museum

June 6 – July 5, 1965
Ground Floor, Central Gallery

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

Overview: 24 oil sketches and 52 drawings were selected from the many hundreds of works by John Constable in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London by Graham Reynolds, keeper of prints and drawings, and paintings. The exhibition was organized and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Attendance: 43,926

Catalog: Sketches by Constable from the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Graham Reynolds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1965.

Other Venues: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Seattle Art Museum Pavilion
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Portland Art Museum

Constable, John
British, 1776 - 1837