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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June 28, 1987 - February 15, 1988
A Century of Modern Sculpture
This free-standing marble sculpture shows a man’s abstracted head and shoulders carved in angular planes. The top third of the piece is a smooth head, perhaps bald, with a curling, pointed oval shape coming down the middle of his forehead. The middle third is the elongated, rectangular face. Closed eyes are suggested by thin ridges carved in deep recesses on either side of a long nose, which is shaped by flat planes. The mouth is delineated by a thick, downturned, upper lip, and a narrow goatee hangs from the pointed chin. The bottom third is the shoulders, suggested by a downward-facing arch carved on the side we can see. The surface is rough and unpolished with a few streaks of gray in the sand-colored marble. This photograph shows the sculpture angled to our right against a pale gray background.
May 24 - September 7, 1987
American Drawings and Watercolors of the Twentieth Century
May 24 - September 27, 1987
American Drawings and Watercolors of the Twentieth Century
May 10 - July 26, 1987
Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection
April 19 - September 7, 1987
New York Interpreted
April 3 - June 15, 1987
Donatello at Close Range
January 25, 1987 - January 17, 1988
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

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