Past Exhibitions

Learn about past exhibitions going back as far as 1941 when the National Gallery of Art first opened to the public.

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December 9, 1979 - March 2, 1980
Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago
November 18, 1979 - February 17, 1980
Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza
October 28, 1979 - October 5, 1980
European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection
October 14 - December 2, 1979
Mies van der Rohe: The Barcelona Pavilion
September 23 - November 25, 1979
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
July 23, 1979 - January 10, 1980
Spanish Sculpture of the Twentieth Century
July 15 - September 16, 1979
Mondrian
This abstract, geometric painting has been tipped on one corner to create a diamond form rather than a square. The surface of the canvas is crisscrossed by an irregular grid of black lines running vertically and horizontally like offset ladders. The black lines create squares and rectangles of different sizes, and the width of the lines vary slightly. One complete square sits at the center of the composition and is painted white. Other rectangles are incomplete, their corners sliced by the edge of the canvas, and each is a different shade of white with hints of pale blue and gray. The black grid creates triangular forms where it meets the angled edge of the canvas in some places, and some of these are filled with flat areas of color. A tomato-red triangle is placed to the left of the top center point, and a vibrant yellow triangle is to the left of the lower center point. A black triangle is next to it at the bottom center, and a cobalt-blue triangle is situated just below the right point. The painting is signed with the artist’s initials at the lower center: “PM.”

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