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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October 15, 1989 - March 18, 1990
Frederic Edwin Church
We look through a tropical forest lining a hazy, wide, placid river in this horizontal landscape painting. Densely packed trees, bushes, and plants create shadowed, thickly forested banks along both sides of the river. The trees are covered with climbing vines, and they have gnarled, sprawling branches. Light catches the flat leaves of a palm-like plant close to us to our left, and once we take a closer look, we find two minuscule black birds with cherry-red chests perched on a long curving stem. The vegetation is reflected in the water’s surface into the distance, where it becomes pale mauve-pink and blends imperceptibly with the sky and clouds. A flock of white birds create a long line low over the water to our right. The sun is a small disk of white low in the humid sky amid pale lavender-purple clouds. The sun reflects in the calm surface of the water below, and it brings our attention to a person rowing a canoe, barely visible on the river in the deep, misty distance.
October 1 - December 31, 1989
Frans Hals
September 24 - November 26, 1989
Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque
August 20 - December 31, 1989
American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
June 18 - August 27, 1989
Mary Cassatt
June 4 - September 4, 1989
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
May 28 - November 26, 1989
Drawings of Landscape and Architecture from the Armand Hammer Collection

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