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Prints by Toulouse-Lautrec
Closed December 13, 1959
The image shows a horse-drawn carriage viewed from slightly above and behind. The rear of the carriage is visible, with two figures inside: a man in a light-colored hat and a woman in a red hat. A dog follows the carriage, moving towards the bottom right. The carriage is driven by a horse on a pale pathway, with a high horizon showing a sky with pastel clouds and green fields. The brushstrokes are light and fluid in an impressionist style, with a color palette of soft yellows, greens, and blues.
American Prints Today/1959
Closed October 18, 1959
Etchings and Mezzotints from Turner's Liber Studiorum
Closed November 8, 1959
The image displays a landscape scene seen from an elevated point. The horizon stretches across the center of the composition with distant landforms meeting a calm expanse of water or sky. The brushstrokes exhibit a detailed and meticulous technique, conveying textures of trees and foliage. The color palette is a warm sepia tone. Closest to us, a figure is seated on the ground surrounded by trees and shrubs. Remnants of structures can be seen to the right, partially hidden among trees.
Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting
Closed May 24, 1959
From behind a low stone wall, on which a young woman with pale skin sits, we look across a wide, shimmering blue waterway toward a town along the opposite shore, under a pale blue sky with wispy white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. The caramel-brown, stone wall runs across the lower right corner, into the distance to our right. The woman sits on our side of the wall with her legs angled to our right, and she twists to lean onto her right hand, on our left, as she looks down toward the water. Her brown hair and face are shaded by the pale, shell-pink umbrella she holds in her left hand, to our right. She wears an ankle-length white dress with long sleeves, and a touch of white on the black hat she wears suggests it is decorated with a flower. The waterway seems to be lined with smooth walls like a canal. Ships with black hulls and wooden masts nearly span the passageway and reflect in the surface of the water beyond the woman. The shore across from us is lined with a row of deep green trees in front of a cluster of cream-white buildings with charcoal-gray roofs. More buildings are visible in the distance on our side of the waterway. The scene is loosely painted so many details are difficult to make out, especially in the woman’s face. The artist signed the work in dark paint at the lower center: “B Morisot.”
Whistler Etchings
Closed June 23, 1959
The image shows a low perspective scene near water with a boat at the bottom. The horizon is marked by the water's edge and stone structures. A large architectural arch is central, leading toward buildings and a street. The artwork features light and intricate brushstrokes, with a monochromatic color palette of earth tones and sepia. Faint outlines of figures near the archway suggest subtle activity in a canal-side setting.
Christmas Prints
Closed March 22, 1959
The image shows a woman holding a small child against her chest. She is standing on a crescent moon, wearing a long red robe. The woman has long flowing hair, a serene expression, and a large crown on her head with a halo surrounding it. The child is unclothed with curly hair, looking up at the woman. The background features golden rays, and there are depictions of foliage at their feet on a light yellow backdrop.
Winslow Homer
Closed January 4, 1959
A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled onto a sandy beach in this horizontal painting. All the people have light skin. The turquoise and aquamarine-blue ocean beyond meets the pale blue sky at the horizon line, about halfway up the composition. To our left of center, one end of the wooden rowboat has been propped on what might be a fallen piling on the sandy, rocky beach. The boy sitting in the bow faces our left almost in profile, and wears a round, brimmed straw hat over brown hair, a brown, long-sleeved shirt, and charcoal-gray pants. His face turns away from us so we only see his cheek and the curve of his ear. To our right, the woman’s dark hair is pulled up and she wears a white apron over a long brown skirt. She stands angled to our right and looks over the shoulder of the blond baby she holds up against her chest. The child is dressed in a white skirt, blue sash, a red jacket, and black shoes. The beach around the people is strewn with another rowboat, large boulders, a wooden barrel, and fishing nets hung over a tall frame to dry. A few tufts of scrubby grass grow in the sand around the woman’s feet. The white sails of several ships line the horizon in the deep distance. Thin, pale peach clouds float across an ice-blue sky. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint in the lower left corner: “WINSLOW HOMER 1873.”
Dutch Drawings
Closed October 26, 1958
Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt
Closed September 21, 1958
The image shows an older man depicted from the waist up. His head is slightly turned to the left and he appears to be looking downward. He has a full beard and mustache, with a high forehead and thinning hair. He is dressed in a voluminous robe with flowing lines. The background is plain with a neutral backdrop.
Etchings and Lithographs by Redon
Closed December 7, 1958
American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art
Closed September 21, 1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz
Closed April 27, 1958

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