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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June 1 - November 29, 2007
French Drawings from the Hammer Collection
May 27 - August 12, 2007
Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman
May 19 - December 31, 2007
Paul Mellon and the National Gallery of Art
May 11 - September 4, 2007
Rembrandt's "Titus" from the Norton Simon Museum
May 6 - September 16, 2007
Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places
May 6 - September 16, 2007
Private Treasures
March 30, 2007 - July 28, 2008
Homer, Eakins, and Bellows
Close to us, a young man and three boys sit or recline in a small sailboat that tips to our left on a choppy dark green sea in this horizontal painting. The billowing sail extends off the top left corner of the canvas and is echoed in the background to our right by the tall sails of another ship in the distance. The horizon line comes about a third of the way up the composition, and puffy gray and white clouds sweep across the turquoise sky. The sun lights the scene from our right so the boys’ ruddy faces are in shadow under their hats. The young man and boys all face our left so they lean against and into the boat as it cants up to our right. The boy nearest the sail to our left reclines across the bow. Next to him to our right, a younger boy perches on the edge of the boat and holds on with both hands. The oldest, in a red shirt, sits on the floor of the boat as he maneuvers the sail with a rope. Closer to us and to our right, a younger boy sits with his bare feet pressed together in front of his bent knees on the back edge of the boat, gazing into the distance over his right shoulder as he handles the tiller. The artist signed and dated the painting in dark letters in the lower right corner: “HOMER 1876.”

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