1979 Exhibitions
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- Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting
- January 21 – September 3, 1979
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- Early German Drawings and Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works
- January 24 – February 25, 1979
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- Circus and Carousel: Watercolor Renderings from the Index of American Design
- January 31 – February 25, 1979
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- Grandma Moses: Anne Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961)
- February 11 – April 1, 1979
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- Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family
- March 18 – May 20, 1979
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- From Leonardo to Titian: Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Hermitage, Leningrad
- May 13 – June 24, 1979
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- French Romanticism
- May 15 – September 9, 1979
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- Cycladic Art: Ancient Sculpture and Ceramics of the Aegean from the N.P. Goulandris Collection
- May 20, 1979 – January 6, 1980
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- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Costumes
- June 3 – September 3, 1979
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- Pablo Picasso: The Vollard Suite
- June 3 – September 3, 1979
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- Self-Portraits: Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art
- June 3 – September 3, 1979
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- The Art of the Pacific Islands
- July 1, 1979 – February 7, 1980
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- Mondrian: The Diamond Compositions
- July 15 – September 16, 1979
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- Spanish Sculpture of the Twentieth Century
- July 23, 1979 – January 10, 1980
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- Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
- September 23 – November 25, 1979
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- Mies van der Rohe: The Barcelona Pavilion
- October 14 – December 2, 1979
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- European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- October 28, 1979 – October 5, 1980
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- Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza
- November 18, 1979 – February 17, 1980
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- Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago
- December 9, 1979 – March 2, 1980
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- Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576
- December 16, 1979 – March 2, 1980