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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July 20 - October 19, 1986
Gifts to the Nation
June 22 - September 7, 1986
George Inness
The painting depicts a view overlooking a valley with a river in the distance. The sky is painted in shades of light blue with faint pinks. There is a hill in the front of the image, and below it are distant landscapes that appear hazy. On the hill are large trees and fields with earthy green and brown tones. There are two small figures nearby towards the front of the painting, one of which appears to be on horseback. That figure appears to wear a red dress with a white shawl, while a figure walking behind the horse wears darker colors.
May 1 - June 15, 1986
Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the USSR
April 6 - September 29, 1986
Baroque Paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
March 9 - May 11, 1986
Drawings by Jacques de Gheyn
March 2 - May 11, 1986
Winslow Homer Watercolors
January 17 - April 6, 1986
The New Painting
Painted entirely with small dots of pure color mostly in slate and azure blue, olive green, and cream white, this scene shows a sandy beach stretching to a lighthouse at the center and a four-story building to our right in this horizontal seascape. The tall, slender lighthouse standing on the water’s edge a short distance from us is painted with specks of azure and sky blue, ivory, and peach. In the distance to our left, a pier stretches into the sea along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this composition. A sailboat floats just off the pier, near the left edge of the painting. To our right of the lighthouse and extending off the right edge of the canvas, the building has three levels of windows and a row of dormers along the tall, peaked roof. The building is painted with touches of dove gray, sapphire blue, and pale pink. In front of the building and to our right, a denim-blue shed has a tangerine-orange roof. A wooden rowboat outlined in cornflower blue with flecks of dandelion yellow rests on the sand next to the shed. In front of us, dots of moss green blend into the blond tones of the sand, creating an impression of grass on the beach. Sunlight shimmers on the sea to our left, which is painted with short dashes of mint and seafoam green, baby blue, cream, and shell pink, beneath a clear, ice-blue sky.

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