The process of shutting down the National Gallery to the public, curtailing operations and furloughing non-excepted, non-exempt employees is expected to take no longer than one-half …
Chuck Close, Fanny, 1984, polaroid photograph mounted on board with masking tape border; squared in ink for transfer, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
To prevent the earth’s destruction, Jupiter, the king of the gods, intervened. He hurled a thunder-bolt at the chariot and sent it in a fiery plunge to earth. Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of …
To provide an overview of the physical and political boundaries and character of places in the Netherlands, or Low Countries (see p. 8, PDGA), during the seventeenth century.
Today, in its display case at the National Gallery of Art, the Chalice, with its beautifully banded stone cup and bejeweled mounts, appears eternal and unchanging. However, the history of …
Lines: What kinds of lines do you see? Describe them. • How does it contribute to a story the artwork might tell? Jacob Lawrence, Street to Mbari, 1964, tempera over graphite on wove …
This promised gift marks the Gallery’s first acquisition of American decorative arts and dramatically transforms the collection, complementing the existing holdings of European …
This exhibition places the statuette amid a select group of other works by Degas with ballet subjects from the Gallery’s collections, as well as an oil painting (fig. 1) and a pastel drawing …
A LASTING LEGACY Paintings and Sculptures from the Paul Mellon Collection l Gallery of Art. Enduring reminders of his generosity, these gifts are but one aspect of the philanthropist’s …
The Picturing France CD contains JPG files for every National Gallery work that appears in the Picturing France booklet (filenames start CD) and classroom guide, as well as most other …