Past Exhibition

Twentieth-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building

Tall trunks and the canopies trees sweep to our left in a stiff wind in this horizontal landscape painting. The bottom half of the canvas is packed solid with leafy trees. Several spindly trunks shoot high above the canopy against a sky mottled with a sheet of pale gray clouds. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “F. VALLOTTON. 10.”
Félix Vallotton, The Wind, 1910, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.41

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    East Building, Tower Level, Upper Level, West Bridge, Northwest, Pod II, and Concourse (26,000 sq. ft.)
Tall trunks and the canopies trees sweep to our left in a stiff wind in this horizontal landscape painting. The bottom half of the canvas is packed solid with leafy trees. Several spindly trunks shoot high above the canopy against a sky mottled with a sheet of pale gray clouds. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “F. VALLOTTON. 10.”
Félix Vallotton, The Wind, 1910, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.41

Overview: More than 200 works from the Gallery's collection of 20th-century art, with loans from private collectors, artists, and their families, were shown in this new installation.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by Jack Cowart and Nan Rosenthal with Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser.

Sponsor: The exhibition was supported by American Express Company.

Catalog: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, by Jeremy Strick. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989

Brochure: Twentieth-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1988.

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