Past Exhibitions

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Art Nouveau, 1890-1914

Closed January 28, 2001

This comprehensive exhibition of the international art nouveau style included some 380 paintings, works of sculpture, graphics, ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and architectural structures and designs.

A baby nestles in a mass of frilly white fabric atop a colorful patchwork, perhaps a pile of quilts, against a sage and spring-green background in this square painting. The baby’s face and right hand peeks out from the mountain of fabric at the top center of the composition. The infant has ash-white skin with pink cheeks and lips, and looks down toward us with large dark eyes. The pile of fabric creates a mosaic-like mix of pattern and color with vibrant royal and baby blue, sage green, turquoise, butter yellow, and shell and salmon pink. Some patterns are outlined in black while brushstrokes swirl together in other areas. The background is mottled with cool mint and asparagus-green strokes against pale beige.

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century

Closed February 4, 2001

Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

Closed December 21, 2000

Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection

Closed October 15, 2000

The drawing shows a reclining figure on a flat surface, positioned on their side with a slightly arched back, head leaned back, and facing upwards. The figure has a outlined face with closed mouth and defined chin, and loose hair. The body is unclothed, with attention to form and shading. The background is simple and sketched lightly. There are no visible accessories. The artwork is on textured paper, using charcoal or graphite for shading and white highlights for depth.

The Impressionists at Argenteuil

Closed August 20, 2000

A sun-dappled dirt road runs away from us, parallel to a shimmering body of water under a blue sky dotted with white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes, so some details are difficult to make out. The road moves back in space from the lower right corner of the canvas. It is lined with tall thin trees with narrow, dark green canopies to our right and with marshy grasses to our left. The road ends or curves in front of a row of terracotta-orange and gray buildings and smokestacks along the horizon, which comes about a third of the way up this composition. Two women and a child stand and sit in the shadows at the base of the trees to our right. Two sailboats drift on the glassy surface of the water. A row of celery-green trees on the horizon to our left and the sails of the boats reflect in the water. The artist signed the lower right corner, “Claude Monet.”

Landscape Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection

Closed November 12, 2000

The Triumph of the Baroque

Closed October 9, 2000

Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle

Closed July 23, 2000

66 drawings by Raphael and his precursors, assistants, and followers were selected from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to 21 works by Raphael, drawings by artists who influenced Raphael's style, including Perugino and Luca Signorelli, and by Raphael's followers Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, and Polidoro da Caravaggio were shown.