Past Exhibitions

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January 19 - February 19, 1989
Master Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
December 13, 1988 - December 31, 1990
Twentieth-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building
Tall trunks and the canopies trees sweep to our left in a stiff wind in this horizontal landscape painting. The bottom half of the canvas is packed solid with leafy trees. Several spindly trunks shoot high above the canopy against a sky mottled with a sheet of pale gray clouds. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “F. VALLOTTON. 10.”
November 13, 1988 - February 20, 1989
The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588
November 6, 1988 - January 22, 1989
The Pastoral Landscape
November 6, 1988 - May 1, 1989
Nineteenth-Century Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
October 30, 1988 - January 23, 1989
Japan
October 16, 1988 - January 29, 1989
Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes
A shallow bowl filled with oranges, grapes, and nuts is surrounded by a short, flaring glass, a glass decanter, a lemon, and more nuts arranged along a wooden tabletop in this horizontal still life painting. The objects nearly fill the composition, and the table extends off both sides. The three oranges are pale, with the one at the center nearly yellow, and a stem of dark green leaves lies across the top. A bunch of shriveled grapes, like raisins still on the vine, lies across the almonds and other nuts, all in their shells, in the bowl. The outside of the bowl is white, and it has a gently scalloped rim. A lemon sits to our left of the bowl of fruit, and behind it, the glass decanter has a teardrop-shaped glass stopper. Light coming from the front and our left makes the peachy liquid glow. To our right are four whole walnuts in their shells, with a few grapes hanging from the bowl. Behind the walnuts, a long stemmed, flaring, clear glass is almost filled with the peach-colored liquid. The background is deeply shadowed at the upper left, lightening slightly to elephant gray toward the lower right. The artist inscribed the painting as if he had written his name, date, and location on the front edge of the table, near the lower right corner: “Raphaelle Peale Aug: 5th 1814 Philad:”

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