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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February 17 - July 6, 1980
In Praise of America
February 10 - June 15, 1980
American Light
A pink-toned sandy beach meets a placid body of pale blue water under a hazy sky in this horizontal landscape painting. To our left, the beach curves like a letter C to end in the near distance with a terracotta-orange rocky outcropping and a boulder, which comes halfway across the composition. Muted green trees grow atop the outcropping, and the left half is blanketed in moss or grass. A white rowboat has been pulled into the sand about halfway along the beach. One person sits or crouches inside, and a red cloth or net hangs over the side closer to us. A person wearing a straw hat, white, long-sleeved shirt, and brown pants carries a basket over one arm as they walk away from us, not far from the rowboat. The water is very light blue where it laps gently at the shore but is washed by diffuse sunlight to parchment white in the distance. The horizon, which comes a third of the way up the canvas, nearly blends into the milky white bank of clouds above. A few sailboats are near the horizon on the right half of the painting, and a few small patches of blue sky show through the clouds in the upper right corner.
December 16, 1979 - March 2, 1980
Wonders of the Age
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

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