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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August 10 - September 28, 1952
American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art
June 3 - October 26, 1952
French Eighteenth-Century Aquatints
May 18 - August 3, 1952
Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec
April 9 - September 21, 1952
Etchings and Drypoints by Alphonse Legros
March 2 - May 11, 1952
French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection
A woman pushes aside a deep golden yellow curtain that fills three-quarters of this nearly square painting. The curtain runs on a rod parallel and close to the top of the canvas, extends off the right edge, and falls behind a bed covered in the same color. The bed is cropped by the bottom and left edges of the painting, and a brown, arched wood footboard almost reaches the right side. The woman stands on the far side of the bed, facing away from us as she pulls at the curtain with her right hand. She wears a navy-blue dress and a brown braid falls down her back. She reveals an area covered in a pink, green, and white floral pattern that seems to match the size of the curtain, at least along the left edge where it is exposed. A round mirror hangs on the floral-patterned area above a red piece of furniture, perhaps a small table or stool. The wall around the patterned area and curtain is painted bone white. A line incised in the paint running from the top left corner of the floral area to the top edge of the canvas suggests a crack in the wall. The paint is loosely applied so brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the floral pattern. The artist’s signature is painted in red in the lower left corner: "E. Vuillard."
January 22 - April 19, 1952
Etchings by Jacques Callot
December 2, 1951 - February 3, 1952
Fifteenth-Century Graphic Art

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