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Diverse Modernisms, 1935–1955
Closed July 30, 2019

In the years around World War II, modernist art produced in the United States was varied in style and subject matter. Despite many barriers to inclusion that persist to the present, art from this period was created by an increasingly diverse set of practitioners working in a range of media, as reflected by the works in this installation.

The image depicts geometric shapes and lines against a dark background. The composition includes vertical sections with various arrangements of shapes resembling an eye, tear droplets, and masks. The segments showcase circles, triangles, and ovals forming patterns resembling totemic symbols or mechanical parts. Bold brushstrokes and earthy tones enhance the mystique of the artwork, connecting the abstract forms with motifs like masks or tribal emblems.
Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle
Closed July 23, 2000

66 drawings by Raphael and his precursors, assistants, and followers were selected from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to 21 works by Raphael, drawings by artists who influenced Raphael's style, including Perugino and Luca Signorelli, and by Raphael's followers Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, and Polidoro da Caravaggio were shown.

Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz
Closed November 25, 1973

113 drawings from 12 Italian geographical areas included works by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Pontormo, Titian, Paolo Veronese, and Jacopo Tintoretto. The works were selected by Konrad Oberhuber in collaboration with the owner, the celebrated cellist and art patron.

Titian and the Venetian Woodcut
Closed January 2, 1977

A commemorative exhibition of 114 woodcuts by Titian and other Venetian artists from 21 American and European public and private collections marked the 400th anniversary of Titian's death in Venice in 1576. The works were selected by David Rosand of Columbia University and Michelangelo Muraro of Venice. Some of the prints were 8 to 10 feet wide. 13 paintings by Titian from the Gallery's collection were shown in adjacent rooms. The exhibition opened at the same time as a similar one at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. It was circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation.

Shown from the hips up, a young boy with pale, peachy skin wears a voluminous, black cloak that nearly falls off his shoulders over a rose-pink tunic, with a sword hanging from one hip in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled slightly to our right, and he looks off to our left with dark brown eyes under gently arched brows. He has a wide nose, and his pink lips are closed with the corners pulled slightly back. His skin is smooth and his cheeks slightly flushed. His dark brown hair is cut close and comes to a point in front of his ears. His tunic is painted with dusky pink highlights against wine-red to suggest a sheen across a vertically striped, leafy pattern. The garment has a high neck lined with a white ruffle and has a row of buttons down the front. His black coat has wide lapels that reach beyond his shoulders, and the puffy sleeves gather on his arms. The coat has a silvery-white cross over the chest to our right. The left and right arms of the cross are lost in the folds but the arms at the top and bottom are forked at the ends. The boy’s pine-green belt is edged with gold, and the hilt of the sword is angled toward us on his left hip, to our right. He holds one fawn-brown glove in his right hand, to our left, and his other arm disappears behind the folds of his coat. The background is deep olive green, almost brown. The artist signed the painting with dark paint near the right edge of the canvas near the boy’s shoulder, “TITANVS F.”
From Leonardo to Titian
Closed June 24, 1979

This loan of 11 paintings from the Hermitage Museum was dominated by the only work by Leonardo da Vinci in the USSR, the so-called Benois Madonna.

Titian's Saint Sebastian
Closed February 17, 1988

Saint Sebastian by Titian was lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, on the occasion of the visit to Washington by General Secretary and Mrs. Gorbachev. In exchange, the Gallery agreed to lend Laocoön by El Greco to the Hermitage in 1989 in celebration of that museum's 225th anniversary.

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