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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An American Vision
Closed October 6, 2002
Goya
Closed June 2, 2002
The Flowering of Florence
Closed May 27, 2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
Closed June 23, 2002
German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection
Closed March 3, 2002
A Century of Drawing
Closed April 7, 2002
Best Impressions
Closed January 21, 2002
Henry Moore
Closed January 27, 2002
Aelbert Cuyp
Closed January 13, 2002
Virtue and Beauty
Closed January 6, 2002
This square portrait shows the head and shoulders of a young woman in front of a spiky bush that fills much of the background except for a landscape view that extends into the deep distance to our right. The woman's body is angled to our right but her face turns to us. She has chalk-white, smooth skin with heavily lidded, light brown eyes, and her pale pink lips are closed. Pale blush highlights her cheeks, and she looks either at us or very slightly away from our eyes. Her brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back, but tight, lively curls frame her face. Her hair turns gold where the light shines on it. She wears a brown dress, trimmed along the square neckline with gold. The front of the bodice is tied with a blue ribbon, and the lacing holes are also edged with gold. A sheer white veil covers her chest and is pinned at the center with a small gold ball. The bush fills the space around her head with copper-brown, spiky leaves. A river winds between trees and rolling hills in the distance to our right. Trees and a town along the horizon, which comes about halfway up the painting, is pale blue under an ice-blue sky.
Spirit of an Age
Closed September 3, 2001
Jasper Johns
Closed October 7, 2001

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