Past Exhibition

Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney

The painting depicts a coastal scene. A rocky shore in warm tones of orange and purple is closest to the viewer, with two boats and a simple structure visible near the center of the image. The horizon line is high in the composition, with a range of mountains faintly visible against the sky past the large body of water. The water is a light blue, stretching from the rocky shore to the distant mountains. The paint has been applied with small dot-like brushstrokes of reds, oranges, blues, and purples.
Henri Edmond Cross, Calanque des Antibois, 1891/1892, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.2

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    East Building, Mezzanine, Northwest
The painting depicts a coastal scene. A rocky shore in warm tones of orange and purple is closest to the viewer, with two boats and a simple structure visible near the center of the image. The horizon line is high in the composition, with a range of mountains faintly visible against the sky past the large body of water. The water is a light blue, stretching from the rocky shore to the distant mountains. The paint has been applied with small dot-like brushstrokes of reds, oranges, blues, and purples.
Henri Edmond Cross, Calanque des Antibois, 1891/1892, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.2

Overview: 16 paintings given to the National Gallery of Art by John Hay Whitney and his wife, Betsey Cushing Whitney, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, were presented in the exhibition. 8 of the paintings were from Mrs. Whitney's 1998 bequest to the museum.

Organization: Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings at the National Gallery of Art, was the exhibition curator. The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art. It was made possible by The Circle of the National Gallery of Art.

Attendance: 74,901

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