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Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper
Closed September 7, 1992
The drawing features two figures with their upper bodies in focus, and parts of their legs visible. One figure, a seated woman, leans towards the other figure, a reclining male resting with his head on a draped cloth. The woman has detailed facial features and styled hair with loose waves. The male has delicate features and his face is in repose. He is partially covered with drapery. The woman wears classical-style drapes with a sense of movement. In the background are ethereal forms or clouds, with a cherubic figure sketched above. A dog is depicted at the bottom right. The scene is rendered in soft, muted tones on brown, textured paper.
Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange
Closed September 2, 1991
The image displays an arrangement of rectangular and square shapes layered over each other to create an abstract composition. The shapes feature grids, textured patterns, and overlaid images of various objects. The color palette includes yellows, browns, muted greens, and blues, adding a vintage, collage-like feel. Dots and swirls are scattered throughout, suggesting splashes or faded brushstrokes and enhancing the abstract qualities of the composition.
John Russell Pope and the Building of the National Gallery of Art
Closed July 17, 1991
Rembrandt's Lucretias
Closed January 5, 1992
Shown from the thighs up, a pale-skinned woman looks down and off to our left as she holds the pointed end of a dagger toward her chest in this vertical painting. Her lips are slightly parted, and her arms are spread wide as holds the hilt of the dagger in her right hand, to our left. Her hooded, dark brown eyes are rimmed with red. Her head tilts to our left, her pale lips parted. There are gray shadows at the corners of her mouth and along her jawline. Her brown hair is pulled back under a cloth covering painted with white flecks to suggest shiny thread or possibly jewels. She wears a long, tawny-brown gown with diaphanous sleeves. The bodice is laced up over a cream-white undergarment with a deep V neck and voluminous sleeves with unfastened cuffs near her wrists. She wears a large, teardrop-shaped pearl in the ear we can see and two necklaces. One necklace is a strand of pearls, and the other is a gold and possibly jeweled pendant with another teardrop pearl hanging from a cord. A gold belt drapes around her hips over a narrow waist. She is warmly lit from the upper left and set against an earth-brown background. The artist signed and dated the center left, “Rembrandt 1664.”
Drawings of Landscape and Architecture from the Armand Hammer Collection
Closed November 11, 1991
The image is a sketch depicting a rural scene. The point of view presents a path curving away from us and extending into the distance, flanked by fields. The horizon is marked by a line of trees. The sketch uses light pencil work with faint shading and outline. Close to us, a figure with an animal walks along the path. Sparse details on the left show fields, while to the right, a tree and fence posts create a boundary. The color palette is monochromatic, using natural tones and shadows of pencil on paper.
Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
Closed May 10, 1992
Drawn with brown ink and shaded with tan washes on cream-white paper, two bearded men wearing robes, with a smaller, nude, winged boy between them, fill this vertical drawing. At the center top of the paper, the angel faces us, gazing down to our left with open mouth and eyebrows drawn together. He has curly hair and lifts his muscular right arm, on our left, with his index finger pointed upward. Crosshatched lines define his body, and quick, curved lines shade his outstretched wings. To our right, one man stands with his body facing the center of the sheet but he turns his head to look up off the top right corner. He has curling hair, a wide mustache, and perhaps a goatee, though his chin is partially hidden by a dark spot on the paper. He has broad shoulders, a thick neck, large hands, and a hint of a muscular leg under his flowing, voluminous robes. He holds a flat, oblong object, possibly a stone tablet, perched on his slightly bent left knee. Seated to our left, the other man faces and looks at us. He also grasps a flat, tablet-like object but holds it up, braced on his right thigh, to our left, and points to it with his other hand. This man also is solidly built and swathed in robes, with a hood over his curly hair. He leans forward, knees apart, and stares out with his brows deeply furrowed. His downturned mouth is set in a bushy, curly beard. Near the bottom of the picture, the bare feet of the two men emerge from the folds of their robes. Touches of white washes on the folds of the robes create a sense of light coming from above and to our right, and charcoal lines reinforce the shadows. A grid is lightly drawn in red chalk lines over the composition. A black stamp in the lower left has the letters “E.C” and another at the center reads, “H de T. STAT.”
Walker Evans
Closed March 1, 1992
The image depicts a close-up of two individuals sitting closely together, showing only their upper bodies and faces. On the left, a man is wearing a dark suit, white shirt, patterned tie, and a dark hat. The person on the right is a child wearing a coat, brimmed hat, and a scarf tied under the chin. A third person is partially visible reading a newspaper, and their hat is also dark. The background shows a window with blurred lights outside, indicating an evening or nighttime setting. The image has a monochrome tone.
Soap Bubbles of Jean-Siméon Chardin
Closed September 2, 1991
A young man and child, both with pale skin, are framed within the rectangular opening of a stone window in this vertical painting. At the center, the young man leans toward us over his forearms, which rest on the wide ledge. Angled to our right, he holds a long straw to his mouth to blow a large, glistening bubble that hangs on the opposite end. A second straw rests in a glass cup filled with white liquid, presumably soapy water, that sits near his right elbow, on our left, and he looks down at the bubble. His chestnut-brown hair is tied back with a black ribbon, and curls hang down from his temple. He wears a brown jacket over a white shirt. A younger child peeks over the ledge to our right and also looks at the bubble. Seen from the nose up, the child wears a hat that curves up and over the crown of the head. The face of the brown stone building into which the window is cut seems close to us. A vine of ivy climbs up the face of the building to our left.
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Closed June 16, 1991
A profusion of white roses bursting from the neck of a tan jug almost fills the height of this horizontal still life painting. The roses have large, round blooms with petals tinged with denim and aquamarine blue, sage green, mauve pink, teal, and butter yellow. Emerald-green leaves fill the spaces between blossoms. The jug has a short, rounded handle and sits on a sea glass-green surface. A few blooms lie in the lower left corner and at the foot of the vessel. Many of the flowers, leaves, and vase are outlined with navy blue or black. A mint-green wall with wavy, diagonal streaks of cream white fills the background. The paint is applied thickly with visible strokes.
Rembrandt's Landscapes
Closed May 20, 1990
The image shows a landscape with a thatched-roof building to the right. The horizon is low, emphasizing the sky with soft clouds. Surrounding the building are trees, a fence, and subtle brushstrokes adding texture. The color palette consists of sepia tones. In the distance to the left, faint structures can be seen on the horizon. The land close by has gentle brush marks, with a small body of water reflecting light.
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