Results

Publication

Clouds, Ice, and Bounty

For more than two decades, Lee and Juliet Folger have worked closely with the National Gallery of Art to acquire exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings. Clouds, Ice, and Bounty honors this remarkable group of works and the collaborative relationship that has brought them into the nation’s collection.

Publication

Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

Generously illustrated with rare works from the National Gallery’s collection of early aquatints, this book explores how European artists harnessed the medium’s potential to exchange information and ideas during the Enlightenment.

Publication

American Silence

For fifty years, Robert Adams has made compelling, provocative, and highly influential photographs that show us the wonder and fragility of the American landscape, its inherent beauty, and the inadequacy of our response to it.

Publication

The Double

This groundbreaking examination of the “double” in modern and contemporary art accompanies the National Gallery of Art exhibition The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900. Richly illustrated throughout, The Double is a multifaceted exploration of an enduring theme in art, from painting and sculpture to photography, film, video, and performance.

The Stars We Do Not See
Australian Indigenous Art
Closed March 1, 2026

Mark your calendar for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design.

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985
Closed January 11, 2026

The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.

The image shows a young woman leaning against the rear of a classic car on a street. She rests her elbow on the car's trunk, supporting her chin with her hand. The woman's face is turned towards the camera, showing her dark eyes and short, voluminous black hair. She wears a long-sleeved dress with swirling green and pink colors, a white bracelet on her right wrist, and a circular pendant necklace. The background includes a tree-lined street with parked cars and blurred traffic.
Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
Closed November 2, 2025

Experience the wonder of nature through the eyes of artists. Look closely at art depicting insects and other animals alongside real specimens.

Several insects such as a bees, butterflies, moths, ladybugs, beetles, and more, crawling on and around a fig branch.