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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Drawings of Jim Dine
Closed August 1, 2004
Verrocchio’s David Restored
Closed March 21, 2004
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853
Closed February 29, 2004
Colorful Impressions
Closed February 16, 2004
This is a painting of a social gathering in an outdoor setting. Numerous elegantly dressed individuals are under a canopy of trees in a garden or park. In the foreground, there are chairs and a table with figures interacting. The participants wear 18th-century style clothing. The painting depicts movement and social dynamics. This is in the style of Thomas Rowlandson.
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
Closed January 11, 2004

Scenes of daily life by Antoine Watteau, Jean Siméon Chardin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, François Boucher, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and other 18th-century French artists were presented in this exhibition of 106 paintings and one drawing.

Fourteen men, women, and children focus their attention on a man fanning out a deck of cards in a town street in the right half of this horizontal painting. More men and women stand in small groups or walk in the left half. The women wear bonnets and long dresses and cloaks. The men wear jackets, slacks, and hats. The people all have pale or peachy skin. The man holding out the cards wears a plumed, bicorn hat, a thick white scarf around his neck, and a long, dark coat. His long gray hair is looped into a knot on his upper back, and a thick white sideburn curls along the cheek we see. He has a prominent nose, thin mustache, and his lips are parted as he faces our left in profile. Glints of gold on his hat and back of his coat could be bells, and he wears a gold hoop earring. A young woman with smooth skin, a low-cut, very pale green dress and matching bonnet reaches out to take a card. Another wearing a mob cap and cloak stands at her far shoulder, and two children stand between her and the cardsharp. A pair of young boys stand with the cardsharp, facing away from us and looking down at the cards. More men and women in earth-toned clothes, some tattered, gather in a tight cluster around a wooden table beyond this grouping. On the table is a metal cup and some glass balls, perhaps marbles. A small, furry, brown dog sits and looks up and to the right with dark eyes in the bottom right corner of the painting. This group is backed by a high wall, presumably enclosing a private garden. Trees reach into the cloud-streaked blue sky beyond the wall. Two more dogs walk among the townspeople who move along the street to the left. Building facades on the far side of the walkway are in shadow, but one is labeled Patissier. The artist signed and dated the painting near the lower left corner, “L. Boilly 1806.”
Mark Rothko's Mural Commissions
Closed May 31, 2004
Picasso
Closed January 19, 2004
The Art of Romare Bearden
Closed January 4, 2004
Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte
Closed September 28, 2003
The East Building: Celebrating 25 Years
Closed July 6, 2004
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
Closed September 7, 2003
Frederic Remington
Closed July 13, 2003

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