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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July 16 - October 15, 2006
Henri Rousseau
June 18 - September 17, 2006
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads bowed down toward an infant who lies on a white cloth on the ground in this horizontal painting. The nude baby has a rounded belly, chubby limbs, and short blond hair. To our right and near the edge of the panel, a woman kneels with her hands in prayer, looking toward the baby so she faces our left in profile. She wears a lapis-blue robe over a rose-pink dress, and a white cloth covers her head and shoulders. Behind her and to our left, a man with a white beard, wearing a golden yellow robe, sits or kneels next to a rock at the mouth of a cave cut into a rocky outcropping that extends off the top of the composition. To the left of the baby and at the center of the foreground, a pair of men wear tattered clothing and hold shepherd’s staffs. The man closer to us kneels with his hands pressed together in prayer as the man behind him bends his knee as if to kneel. The landscape recedes deep into the distance on the left half of the painting with a winding river, houses and other buildings, grassy hills, and mountains beneath a blue sky. A small winged angel wearing white looks down on the scene from the upper left corner.
June 11 - November 27, 2006
Gauguin Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
May 7 - August 27, 2006
Charles Sheeler
April 30 - October 1, 2006
The Poetry of Light
April 30, 2006 - January 2, 2007
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections
March 26 - July 30, 2006
Photographic Discoveries

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