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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Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
Closed July 30, 1978
A jumble of abstracted objects, including a stringed instrument, tableware, and fruit, are gathered on a tabletop in this horizontal still life painting. The objects are made up of areas of mostly flat color in muted fawn brown, cream, bright white, fern green, slate gray, and black. Many forms are outlined in black, creating the impression that the some shapes are two-dimensional and assembled almost like a collage. To our left, a musical instrument, perhaps a lute, sits next to appears to be lined paper, perhaps abstracted sheet music, at the center of the composition. In front of the paper, two pieces of pale yellow fruit sit on a silver plate. A rolled up white napkin sits next to the plate in front of an urn and a jug. A steel-gray goblet sits to the left of the plate. The background behind the table is painted with zones of moss green, sky blue, and gray. The edges appear torn, as if the painting is done on a loose canvas or sheet of paper that was then affixed to a support. The surface of the painting is rough and appears scratched throughout, and looks as if paint had been applied when nearly dry. The artist signed and dated the painting in white near the lower left corner: “G Braque 28.”
The European Countryside
Closed March 19, 1978
Nineteenth-Century Toys
Closed March 19, 1978
The image shows a vintage toy train engine with a black body, red and blue front, red chimney, and green and blue cab with red detail. The wheels are brown. The color palette includes worn reds, blues, greens, blacks, and hints of gold due to oxidation. The train is positioned laterally, facing right. It displays the left side of its cab, main body, prominent rear wheels, and the smaller front part fading into the background.
French Prints by Twentieth-Century Masters
Closed November 20, 1977
Four people are depicted from the waist up, sitting closely together. Two younger individuals sit between two older figures, all wearing dark shawls and distinctively tied white caps with pink accents. The older individuals have prominent profiles with elongated noses, while the younger people have rounder faces. They have neutral expressions facing the sea. They are positioned against a backdrop that includes rustic stone huts with thatched roofs. On the left, there is a view of the sea behind some structures, and some green thistle-like plants are in the foreground.
Matisse
Closed October 24, 1977
New Glory Part II
Closed September 5, 1977
Accessible Arts
Closed May 22, 1977
Prints of Paris: The 1890s
Closed July 31, 1977
Paper in Prints
Closed July 31, 1977
This is a drawing of a theater scene with a large clownish figure and an audience. The drawing shows a theatrical performance with a character resembling a clown on the right, and an audience on the left. The audience is depicted in rows, with a seated figure above operating the curtain. The scene conveys a sense of theatricality and humor, capturing the atmosphere of a performance.
The Tokugawa Collection
Closed May 22, 1977
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections
Closed March 13, 1977
Treasures of Tutankhamun
Closed March 15, 1977

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