Key | Imgs | Short Description |
1997_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
1999_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2000_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2002_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2005_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2006_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2007_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2008_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2009_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 33 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2012_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2014_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 15 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2020_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space Closed due to Covid-19. |
2021_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 46 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2022_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 30 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space The east wing reopened in July. And the Calder piece was eventually reinstalled back in the atrium. |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Bldg | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space |
2002_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2008_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 24 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2012_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2021_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Concourse | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation) |
2024_02_19B6_NGAEW_Places | 65 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: American Places: Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection American Places: Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection
November 3, 2023 – May 5, 2024
Being alone and being in a crowd: many American artists in the early 20th century probed these opposed yet essential aspects of modern life. See how artists captured landscapes from isolated mountaintops... |
2010_DC_NGAEW_Arcimboldo | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy
September 19, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Overview: Sixteen examples of the fantastic composite heads painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo will be featured in this exhibition, their first appearance in the United States. Bizarre yet scientifically accurate, the unusual... |
2021_DC_NGAEW_Projects | 36 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Kay Rosen Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Kay Rosen
Ongoing from April 10, 2021
Experience the familiar spaces of the East Building through intriguing works by artists Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, and Kay Rosen. Their site-responsive installations, commissioned by the National Gallery,... |
2022_DC_NGAEW_C2Create | 77 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South
September 18, 2022 – March 26, 2023
For decades Thornton Dial, James “Son Ford” Thomas, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, and many other Black artists in the South worked with little recognition, often using recycled materials as their... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Weems | 41 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
September 12, 2017 – May 18, 2018
Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table Series established her as one of the leading artists of her generation. The series, consisting of 20 carefully staged photographs depicting Weems herself sitting at a kitchen table under a lamp,... |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Dali | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Chester Dale and Salvador Dali |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Christo | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Christo: Over the River Project Christo Donates Two Preparatory Collages for Over The River Project to National Gallery of Art, Washington
On View with Related Works from Gallery Collection through January 23, 2012
Washington, DC—The artist Christo presented the National Gallery of Art with two original preparatory collages for... |
2006_DC_NGAEW_Dada | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Dada Dada
February 19 – May 14, 2006
Overview: 448 works in a wide range of media, including collages, assemblages, photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, posters, films, and audio recordings were presented in this multimedia installation that traced the history of the Dada movement. The works of art... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Bazille | 123 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism
April 9 – July 9, 2017
A scion of a Protestant upper-middle-class family from Montpellier in southern France, Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) seemed destined for a career in medicine. In 1862 he traveled to Paris, ostensibly to pursue his medical studies,... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Truitt | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: In the Tower: Anne Truitt In the Tower: Anne Truitt
November 19, 2017 – April 1, 2018
Anne Truitt was one of the leading figures associated with minimalism, the sculptural tendency that emerged in the 1960s featuring pared-down geometric shapes scaled to the viewer’s body and placed directly on the floor. Born in Baltimore in... |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Kruger | 23 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: In the Tower: Barbara Kruger In the Tower: Barbara Kruger
September 30, 2016 – January 22, 2017
A focused exhibition featuring the work of American artist Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) reopens the East Building Tower Gallery after nearly three years of renovation to the space. Inspired by the Gallery's recent acquisition of Kruger's... |
2009_DC_NGAEW_Guston | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: In the Tower: Philip Guston In the Tower: Philip Guston
January 15, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Overview: 9 paintings and 8 prints created by American artist Philip Guston between 1948 and 1980 were presented in this installation. Of the works, 14 were drawn from the Gallery's collection, including gifts from Edward R. Broida and... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Pollock | 19 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Jackson Pollock’s "Mural" Jackson Pollock’s "Mural"
November 19, 2017 – October 28, 2018
A special installation in the Gallery’s East Building features Mural (1943) by Jackson Pollock, on loan from the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York City townhouse, the early... |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Dwan | 89 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971 Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971
September 30, 2016 – January 29, 2017
Overview: The remarkable career of gallerist and patron Virginia Dwan will be featured front and center for the first time in an exhibition of some 100 works, featuring highlights from Dwan's promised gift of her... |
2021_DC_NGAEW_Benglis | 32 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis
June 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022
East Building, Mezzanine
In the late 1960s, American artist Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) expanded the boundaries traditionally assigned to media and gender with her bold, physical, and tactile works. Since then, Benglis’s endless innovation has made her a... |
2024_02_22E1_NGAEW_Rothko | 122 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024
This exhibition is popular, and you may need to join a line on weekends and busier days. Please enter the exhibition on the East Building Mezzanine. Independently led groups are not permitted.
Joy, despair, ecstasy, tragedy: these are... |
2008_DC_NGAEW_Cutouts | 6 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Matisse: The Cut-Outs Matisse: The Cut-Outs
September 10 – October 24, 1977
Overview: 57 works in cut paper by Henri Matisse included 5 acquired in 1973 for the opening of the Gallery's East Building. The exhibition was organized by Jack Cowart of the Saint Louis Art Museum and John Hallmark Neff of the Detroit Institute... |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Cutouts | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Matisse: The Cut-Outs Matisse: The Cut-Outs
September 10 – October 24, 1977
Overview: 57 works in cut paper by Henri Matisse included 5 acquired in 1973 for the opening of the Gallery's East Building. The exhibition was organized by Jack Cowart of the Saint Louis Art Museum and John Hallmark Neff of the Detroit Institute... |
2022_DC_NGAEW_Night_Moods | 41 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Night Moods Night Moods
June 30 – December 31, 2022
Shrouded in smoky grays and velvety blacks, marked by deep shadows, or shifting reflections illumined by the glow of moonlight, the night has been a continual source of artistic inspiration. These prints and photographs, exhibited with George Ault’s painting,... |
2019_DC_NGAEW_OLJackson | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings
April 14 – September 15, 2019
American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and... |
2018_DC_NGAEW_Outliers | 83 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Outliers and American Vanguard Art Outliers and American Vanguard Art
January 28 – May 13, 2018
Self-taught artists—variously termed folk, primitive, visionary, naïve, and outsider—have played a significant role in the history of modernism, yet their contributions have been largely disregarded or forgotten. Again and again in the... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Guston_Now | 166 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Philip Guston Now Philip Guston Now
March 2 – August 27, 2023
Philip Guston Now charts the 50-year career of one of America’s most influential modern artists through more than 150 paintings and drawings. Guston’s story is one of epic change—of artistic styles, from muralism to abstract expressionism to figuration, of... |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Reinvented | 26 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
September 30, 2016 – March 5, 2017
Overview: The collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker brings together works of critically important artists who have changed the course of photography through their... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Guston_Nixon | 85 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Poor Richard: Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings |
2018_DC_NGAEW_Whiteread | 80 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Rachel Whiteread Rachel Whiteread
September 16, 2018 – January 13, 2019
As the first comprehensive survey of the work of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), this exhibition brings together some 100 objects from the course of the artist’s 30 year career, including drawings, photographs, architecture-scaled... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Recent | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions: Made in California Recent Acquisitions: Made in California
September 12, 2017 – May 18, 2018
Seven recent acquisitions on view are connected by a profound common denominator—individuality.
Produced across many decades by artists of different backgrounds and orientations, the works cover such movements as Light and... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Longo | 15 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Robert Longo Drawings: Engines of State Robert Longo Drawings: Engines of State
March 26 – July 9, 2023
Robert Longo (b. 1953) is perhaps best known as a leading artist of the “Pictures Generation”—a group of artists who were influenced by the self-reflective, critical principles of Conceptual and Pop Art during the 1970s and 1980s. They... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Steinberg | 78 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg
September 12, 2017 – May 18, 2018
This special installation of 18 drawings, two photographs, and an assortment of small sculptures by Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) is part of an initiative—dating from the reopening of the East Building galleries in 2016—to include selected modern drawings,... |
2021_DC_NGAEW_City | 21 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The City |
2022_DC_NGAEW_City | 50 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The City The City
Ongoing from February 20, 2020
East Building, Ground Level - Gallery 106A
Towering skyscrapers, massive steel bridges, and the hubbub of city streets captivated artists working in the first half of the twentieth century. Roaming the rapidly changing urban environment, they explored ways to... |
2022_DC_NGAEW_Double | 178 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
July 10 – October 31, 2022
When two forms or images are presented together, our eyes can’t help but compare them. We “see double” and identify differences and similarities. The art of the double causes us to see ourselves seeing.
The Double is the... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Interior_Life | 45 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions
March 17 – September 10, 2023
Writer James Baldwin highlighted the power of people’s interior lives, specifically those of artists, to move our world forward. While our emotional, spiritual, and psychological existences often remain hidden, visual artists bravely... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_Ancestors | 98 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
September 22, 2023 – January 15, 2024
East Building, Upper Level, West Bridge
Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), this exhibition brings together works by an... |
2019_DC_NGAEW_Animals | 317 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The Life of Animals in Japanese Art The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
June 2 – August 18, 2019
Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to the subject, The Life of Animals in Japanese Art covers 17... |
2022_DC_NGAEW_WWoman | 100 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
July 3 – October 10, 2022
Joanna Hiffernan’s close professional and personal relationship with artist James McNeill Whistler lasted more than two decades—yet who was she? She is featured in numerous works by Whistler, including his three... |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Venice | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
February 20–May 30, 2011
Venice inspired a school of competitive view painters whose achievements are among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, through some 20 masterworks by... |
2024_04_16D1_NGAEW_Woven_Hist | 428 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
March 17 – July 28, 2024
This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past hundred years.
In the 20th century, textiles have often been considered lesser—as applied art, women’s work, or domestic... (Partially reviewed) |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Folks_160930 | 13 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Folks during reopening day I ran into several folks on the reopening day: Mara Mayor (with her granddaughter and friend), Perry Chin (being interviewed by Voice of America), and James Ponti (author of "Framed! A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery").
Perry Chin was an associate of I.M. Pei, the original architect who designed the East Wing back... |
2024_02_22E2_NGAEWP | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Paintings |
2016_DC_NGAEWP | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Paintings in common areas |
2022_DC_NGAEWP | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Paintings in common areas |
2023_DC_NGAEWP | 15 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Paintings in common areas |
2002_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2007_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 25 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2008_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 97 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2009_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 13 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2010_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 29 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2011_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 108 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2012_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2016_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 360 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2017_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 50 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2021_DC_NGAEW_Galleries | 47 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries |
2016_DC_NGAEW_RT | 21 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... |
2017_DC_NGAEW_RT | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... |
2021_DC_NGAEW_RT | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... |
2022_DC_NGAEW_RT | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... |
2023_DC_NGAEW_RT_Pride | 29 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... -- of PRIDE |
2021_DC_NGAEW_RT_AJ | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from... -- of Rally for Abortion Justice march |
2002_DC_NGAEWS | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2007_DC_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2008_DC_NGAEWS | 12 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2009_DC_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2011_DC_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2012_DC_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2014_DC_NGAEWS | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2016_DC_NGAEWS | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2017_DC_NGAEWS | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2020_DC_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2021_DC_NGAEWS | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2022_DC_NGAEWS | 22 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2023_DC_NGAEWS | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2024_02_19B7_NGAEWS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas |
2010_DC_NGA_Body | 22 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Body Inside and Out The Body Inside and Out: Anatomical Literature and Art Theory: Selections from the National Gallery of Art Library
July 24, 2010–January 23, 2011
During the Renaissance, a new focus on the science of anatomy came to light. Artists and physicians worked together and formed partnerships -- Leonardo and... |
2014_DC_NGA_de_Hooghe | 23 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Book Illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe From the Library: The Book Illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe
September 20, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Artistically gifted and socially well connected, Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) can help us to unravel the complexities of the late Dutch Golden Age, particularly through his vast and varied oeuvre of book... |
2014_DC_NGA_Planning | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: City Planning and Improvements From the Library: Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books
March 1 – September 1, 2014
The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books allows the National Gallery of Art Library to expand its holdings of books in all areas of architectural studies. One of our main areas of... |
2012_DC_NGA_Fleeting | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Fleeting Structures of Early Modern Europe From the Library: The Fleeting Structures of Early Modern Europe
February 4–July 29, 2012
For centuries, the world has seen its cities enrobed in festive garb for all manner of honorary events. Today, urban centers find themselves revitalized and beautified to host the Olympic Games or celebrate a... |
2015_DC_NGA_Florentine | 30 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Florentine Publishing in the Renaissance From the Library: Florentine Publishing in the Renaissance
February 1 – August 2, 2015
With neither a unified state nor even a common vernacular language among the various regions of the Italian peninsula, printing presses were established in every city and in many smaller towns. The needs of the... |
2013_DC_NGA_Book | 29 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Pre-Raphaelites and the Book Pre-Raphaelites and the Book
February 17–May 19, 2013
Image: Many artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle not only involved themselves in book design and illustration but were also highly regarded poets in their own right. Organized to complement Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this... |
2012_DC_NGA_Text | 12 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Text as Inspiration Text as Inspiration: Artists' Books and Literature
July 30, 2011–January 29, 2012
Artists' books exemplify the creative and inventive abilities of their makers. Working in a visual and tactile format, they transform the book into a total art concept, with poignant, humorous, and clever results.... |
2013_DC_NGA_Ovid | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Transformation of Ovid's Metamorphoses From the Library: The Transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
August 10, 2013 – February 9, 2014
By the sixteenth century, Ovid’s Metamorphoses had become the most important single source for mythological lore from the ancient world. It was read in many different languages, from the original Latin to... |
2018_DC_NGA_Garfield | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- James Garfield Signs |
2020_DC_NGA_Garfield | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- James Garfield Signs |
2021_DC_NGA_Rebranding | 24 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Rebranding (2021) |
1999_DC_NGASG | 34 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2002_DC_NGASG | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2003_DC_NGASG | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2004_DC_NGASG | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2005_DC_NGASG | 20 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2006_DC_NGASG | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2007_DC_NGASG | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2008_DC_NGASG | 53 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Including the ice skating rink. |
2009_DC_NGASG | 49 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Several visits:
(090904) Friday night jazz concert. Includes running into Mara Mayor and her granddaughter.
(091021) They're preparing for both the ice skating rink and a new outdoor sculpture.
(091108) Graft by Roxy Paine.
At the National Gallery, art that goes out on a limb
By Blake... |
2010_DC_NGASG | 6 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Preparing for the fountains to come back on. |
2013_DC_NGASG | 6 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2014_DC_NGASG | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2015_DC_NGASG | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden |
2016_DC_NGASG | 12 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Taking down the ice skating ring. |
2017_DC_NGASG | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Ice skating rink is still open. |
2021_DC_NGASG | 44 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden The National Gallery's outdoor sculpture garden has reopened after being closed again on September 21. |
2023_DC_NGASG | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden They were doing maintenance on some of the pieces. |
2020_DC_NGASG | 44 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden (including Marc Chagall: Orphée) Marc Chagall: Orphée
In 1968, Marc Chagall visited the Georgetown home of his friends and patrons Evelyn and John Nef, and decided that he would design a mosaic specifically for the Nefs’ garden. There the work Orphée (Orpheus)—remained until it was bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art by Evelyn... |
2015_DC_NGAA_Bierstadt | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Alcove: Alfred Bierstadt and Samuel F.B. Morse |
2012_DC_NGAA_Catlin | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Alcove: George Catlin |
2023_DC_NGAA_Buffalo | 6 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Alcove: Last of the Buffalo? |
2013_DC_NGAA_Moran | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Alcove: Thomas Moran, "Green River Cliffs, Wyoming" |
2011_DC_NGAAH | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection |
2012_DC_NGAAH | 16 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection |
2014_DC_NGAAH | 22 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection |
2015_DC_NGAAH | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection |
1982_DC_NGA_Bldg | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
1997_DC_NGA_Bldg | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
1999_DC_NGA_Bldg | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2000_DC_NGA_Bldg | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2002_DC_NGA_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2004_DC_NGA_Bldg | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2005_DC_NGA_Bldg | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2007_DC_NGA_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2008_DC_NGA_Bldg | 26 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building Included here are two guards who asked that I take their pictures. |
2009_DC_NGA_Bldg | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2012_DC_NGA_Bldg | 23 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building Including workers on the dome. |
2013_DC_NGA_Bldg | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2014_DC_NGA_Bldg | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2017_DC_NGA_Bldg | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2020_DC_NGA_Bldg | 33 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building Closed and then reopened under Covid-19. |
2021_DC_NGA_Bldg | 37 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2022_DC_NGA_Bldg | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building For some reason, the NGA is one of the few buildings that puts up fencing around its building and the Mellon Fountain before Pennsylvania Avenue-centric marches and parades. These fences are up to protect the building from PRIDE. |
2023_DC_NGA_Bldg | 13 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2024_02_19B2_NGA_Bldg | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Building |
2017_DC_NGA_Adoration | 12 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Adoration of the Shepherds Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1764/1765
Mengs, Anton Raphael
German, 1728 - 1779 |
2022_DC_NGA_Afro_Atlantic | 259 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Afro-Atlantic Histories Afro-Atlantic Histories
April 10 – July 17, 2022
For centuries, artists have told and retold the complex histories of the African Diaspora. Explore this enduring legacy in the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories, which takes an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of... |
2019_DC_NGA_Berruguete | 95 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
October 13, 2019 – February 17, 2020
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain is the first major exhibition held outside Spain to celebrate the expressive art of the most important sculptor active on the Iberian Peninsula during the... |
2017_DC_NGA_Collects_French | 136 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
May 21 – August 20, 2017
When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon, arrived in the United States in 1815, he brought with him his exquisite collection of eighteenth-century French paintings. Put on public view, the works caused a sensation,... |
2015_DC_NGA_Corcoran | 62 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: American Masterworks from the Corcoran, 1815-1940 American Masterworks from the Corcoran, 1815-1940
February 7 – May 3, 2015
In 2014 the National Gallery of Art assumed stewardship of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s renowned collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs. Two installations featuring highlights... |
2019_DC_NGA_Pre_Raphaelites | 125 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: American Pre-Raphaelites The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists
April 14 – July 21, 2019
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the most influential art critic of the Victorian era, the Gallery will present more than 90 paintings, watercolors, and drawings created by American... |
2022_DC_NGA_Silence | 56 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams
May 29 – October 2, 2022
For 50 years, Robert Adams (b. 1937) has made compelling, provocative, and highly influential photographs that show us the wonder and fragility of the American landscape, its inherent beauty, and the inadequacy of our response... |
2018_DC_NGA_Barye | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Antoine-Louis Barye Animal Sculptor |
2021_DC_NGA_Aquatint | 142 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya
October 24, 2021 – February 21, 2022
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the blossoming of a new printmaking technique—aquatint—vastly expanded possibilities for creating and disseminating images across Europe. Aquatints offered the unprecedented means to... |
2023_DC_NGA_Canova | 145 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Canova: Sketching in Clay Canova: Sketching in Clay
June 11 – October 9, 2023
How does a sculptor turn an initial idea into a finished work of marble? For Antonio Canova (1757–1822), the most famous artist of Europe’s revolutionary period, the answer was with clay.
Working with his hands and small tools, Canova produced... |
2011_DC_NGA_Capitoline | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Capitoline Venus Important Roman Statue Capitoline Venus Leaves Rome for Second Time Since 1797; Officially on View at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 8 to September 5, 2011
Presentation of Sculpture is First Act of New Sister Cities Relationship; Mayor of Rome to Announce Dream of Rome... |
2018_DC_NGA_Cezanne | 81 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Cézanne Portraits Cézanne Portraits
March 25 – July 1, 2018
Cézanne Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the famed post-impressionist’s portraits. The exhibition explores the unconventional aspects of his portraiture, the role his portraits play in the development of his radical style and method, and the range... |
2010_DC_NGA_Dale | 97 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Chester Dale Collection From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
January 31, 2010–July 31, 2011
Chester Dale's magnificent bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included a generous endowment as well as one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early... |
2021_DC_NGA_Clouds | 41 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Clouds, Ice, and Bounty Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings
October 17, 2021 – February 27, 2022
Depicting a rich cross section of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish life and culture, this exhibition brings together 27 paintings acquired through... |
2023_DC_NGA_Conversations | 13 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley
November 18, 2023 – January 31, 2025
Two centuries apart, American artists John Singleton Copley and Kerry James Marshall pushed the boundaries of history painting.
A special installation brings together three monumental paintings for a... |
2018_DC_NGA_Corot | 54 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Corot: Women Corot: Women
September 9 – December 31, 2018
Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the impressionist movement of the 1870s. His figure paintings constitute a much smaller, less well-known portion of... |
2018_DC_NGA_Daumier36 | 61 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Daumier's Portrait Busts (36 French Leaders) |
2019_DC_NGA_Bey | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project
September 12, 2018 – April 21, 2019
For more than 40 years photographer Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has portrayed American youth and those from marginalized communities with sensitivity and complexity. Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project marks the National Gallery of Art's... |
2014_DC_NGA_Dancer | 25 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Degas's Little Dancer Degas's Little Dancer
October 5, 2014 – January 11, 2015
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–1881), Edgar Degas’s groundbreaking statuette of a young ballerina that caused a sensation at the 1881 impressionist exhibition, takes center stage in an exploration of Degas’s fascination with ballet and his... |
2020_DC_NGA_Degas_Opera | 140 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Degas at the Opéra Degas at the Opéra
March 1 – July 5, 2020
An exuberant display of fecund imagination and keen observation, Edgar Degas’s renowned images of the Paris Opéra are among the most sophisticated and visually compelling works he ever created. Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Opéra’s founding, Degas... |
2017_DC_NGA_Robbia | 100 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Della Robbia Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence
February 5 – June 4, 2017
Luca della Robbia (1399/1400-1482), a master sculptor in marble and bronze, invented a glazing technique for terracotta sculpture that positioned him as one of the most innovative artists of the 15th century. Today,... |
2023_DC_NGA_Lange | 127 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Dorothea Lange: Seeing People Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
November 5, 2023 – March 31, 2024
During her long, prolific, and groundbreaking career, the American photographer Dorothea Lange made some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century. Dorothea Lange: Seeing People reframes Lange’s work through the lens of... |
2023_DC_NGA_Drawing_Britain | 107 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Drawing in Britain, 1700–1900: New Additions to the Collection Drawing in Britain, 1700–1900: New Additions to the Collection
April 2 – August 6, 2023
Selected entirely from the National Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition of approximately 80 recently acquired drawings and watercolors provides an overview of two centuries of British art. Works on view... |
2019_DC_NGA_Tintoretto_Ven | 103 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice
March 24 – June 9, 2019
The first exhibition to focus specifically on Tintoretto’s work as a draftsman, Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice provides new ideas about his evolution as a draftsman, about the dating and function of the so-called sculpture drawings, and about... |
2017_DC_NGA_Munch | 24 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Edvard Munch: Color in Context Edvard Munch: Color in Context
September 3, 2017 – January 28, 2018
In the second half of the 19th century, advances in physics, electromagnetic radiation theory, and the optical sciences provoked new thought about the physical as well as the spiritual world. Aspects of that thought are revealed in... |
2023_DC_NGA_Etched | 55 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840–1940 Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840–1940
October 15, 2023 – February 4, 2024
Discover an intriguing chapter in the history of photography.
In the 19th and 20th centuries innovative practitioners searched for and perfected a method to produce identical photographic prints in ink.... |
2019_DC_NGA_Faces | 12 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Faces of D.C. Photo Mural Faces of D.C. Photo Mural
On View Through July 4, 2019
Celebrate the diversity of Washington, DC, with Faces of DC, a photo mural starring faces of the people we encounter every day. (Located at 7th Street & Madison Drive NW)
Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation. |
2017_DC_NGA_Fragonard | 58 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures
October 8 – December 3, 2017
Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, this revelatory exhibition brings together—for the first time—some 14 of the paintings known as the fantasy figures by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). He is considered among the most... |
2023_DC_NGA_Dante | 52 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Going through Hell: The Divine Dante Going through Hell: The Divine Dante
April 9 – July 16, 2023
Florentine poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) Divine Comedy called Commedia in Italian, was written in the Florentine vernacular that formed the basis for the modern Italian language. It describes Dante’s journey... |
2018_DC_NGA_Parks | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
November 4, 2018 – February 18, 2019
During the 1940s American photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional shooting for... |
2018_DC_NGA_Heavenly | 22 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna
February 25 – July 8, 2018
The Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (1612) depicts the monastery and dramatic rocky terrain of La Verna, the site where Saint Francis received the stigmata. The gifted baroque draftsman Jacopo Ligozzi was hired to... |
2016_DC_NGA_History | 82 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: History |
2016_DC_NGA_Mellon | 102 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: In Celebration of Paul Mellon In Celebration of Paul Mellon
May 8 – September 18, 2016
Paul Mellon played many crucial roles at the National Gallery of Art in carrying out the founding vision of his father, Andrew, who had laid plans for the museum before his death in 1937. The younger Mellon was a major donor of funds and works... |
2021_DC_NGA_JVDZee | 45 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem
November 28, 2021 – May 30, 2022
Photographer James Van Der Zee created an extraordinary chronicle of life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s and beyond. Residents of this majority Black neighborhood in New York City turned to Van Der Zee and his... |
2018_DC_NGA_Joan_Of_Arc | 31 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Joan of Arc series (Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel) |
2009_DC_NGA_LincolnM | 15 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Lincoln Memorial Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon:
February 12, 2009-April 4, 2010
The 6-foot-high plaster working model of the celebrated seated Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, will be... |
2023_DC_NGA_Looking_Up | 47 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800 Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800
January 29 – July 9, 2023
In modern architecture and contemporary interior design, ceilings have lost much of their original, complex meaning, becoming neutral fields or featuring generic decoration. However, in the European tradition that spanned nearly... |
2008_DC_NGA_Puryear | 23 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Martin Puryear A native Washingtonian who has achieved international acclaim, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) has created a distinctive body of sculpture that defies categorization. Serenely quiet and poetic, his work explores natural forms and materials, especially a wide variety of woods, and it engages issues of history,... |
2012_DC_NGA_Furniture | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Masterpieces of American Furniture Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
Opens October 7, 2012, on permanent view
The unveiling of the Kaufman Collection at the National Gallery of Art on the ground floor of the West Building is a landmark moment for the nation's capital, which until this time has... |
2013_DC_NGA_Furniture | 77 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Masterpieces of American Furniture |
2017_DC_NGA_Mansen | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Matthias Mansen: Configurations Matthias Mansen: Configurations
July 23 – December 13, 2017
Matthias Mansen (German, born 1958) creates large-scale woodcuts that explore abstraction and figuration. He advances the tradition of woodblock printing by transforming pieces of scavenged wood—discarded floorboards or fragments of abandoned... |
2015_DC_NGA_Memory | 32 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
May 3 – September 13, 2015
The Memory of Time presents work by contemporary artists who investigate the richness and complexity of photography’s relationship to time,... |
2018_DC_NGA_Sittow | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
January 28 – May 13, 2018
Considered Estonia's greatest Renaissance artist, Michel Sittow (c. 1469–1525) was sought after by the renowned European courts of his day, including those of King Ferdinand of Aragón and Queen Isabella of... |
2013_DC_NGA_David | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Michelangelo's David-Apollo Michelangelo's David-Apollo
December 13, 2012–March 3, 2013
The presentation of the David-Apollo, a marble statue by Michelangelo lent to the National Gallery of Art by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, opens the nationwide celebration 2013?The Year of Italian Culture. The graceful figure... |
2014_DC_NGA_Monuments | 59 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Monuments Officers and the NGA Monuments Officers and the NGA
Introduction:
During World War II the National Gallery of Art (NGA) was deeply involved in efforts to protect art, archives, libraries, historical buildings, and monuments in war theaters.
Several hundred men and women—including art historians, museum and art... |
2013_DC_NGA_George | 7 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Owned by George Washington |
2017_DC_NGA_Posing | 65 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel
September 17, 2017 – January 28, 2018
A selection of some 60 photographs in the Gallery’s collection made possible by Robert B. Menschel are on view in an exhibition that examines how the act of posing for a portrait changed with the invention of... |
2020_DC_NGA_Raphael | 66 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Raphael and His Circle Raphael and His Circle
February 16 – June 14, 2020
Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the greatest artistic figures working in the Western classical tradition. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of his death, the Gallery presents 25 prints and drawings in an intimate installation. The works will... |
2016_DC_NGA_Recent_Drawings | 27 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings
July 3, 2016 – January 3, 2017
West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 22
Overview: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings encompasses landscapes, seascapes, portraits, still lifes, and history subjects that demonstrate the originality of... |
2015_DC_NGA_Flesh | 35 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh
June 7 – October 4, 2015
Prints were a primary form of artistic expression in sixteenth-century Italy. Better than any other art form, prints satisfied an exploding demand for the images of the day. They ranged from depictions of the... |
2018_DC_NGA_Mann | 20 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
March 4 – May 28, 2018
For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s... |
2011_DC_NGA_Louvre | 31 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
June 25, 2011–July 8, 2012
Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a painter. One of his most important works is on loan from the Terra Foundation for American... |
2022_DC_NGA_Sargent_Spain | 220 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sargent and Spain Sargent and Spain
October 2, 2022 – January 2, 2023
Celebrated as the leading society portraitist of his era, John Singer Sargent influenced a generation of American painters. His personal captivation with Spain resulted in a remarkable body of work that documents his extensive travels from the north... |
2018_DC_NGA_Humor | 186 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sense of Humor Sense of Humor
July 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Humor may be fundamental to human experience, but its expression in painting and sculpture has been limited. Instead, prints, as the most widely distributed medium, and drawings, as the most private, have been the natural vehicles for comic content.... |
2018_DC_NGA_Sharing | 123 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze
April 1 – August 5, 2018
Inspired by the acquisition of the important William A. Clark maiolica (glazed Italian ceramics) collection from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and drawing largely on the Gallery’s newly expanded holdings, this... |
1997_DC_NGA_Shaw | 25 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
1999_DC_NGA_Shaw | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2000_DC_NGA_Shaw | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2002_DC_NGA_Shaw | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2004_DC_NGA_Shaw | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2008_DC_NGA_Shaw | 21 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2009_DC_NGA_Shaw | 26 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2013_DC_NGA_Shaw | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2016_DC_NGA_Shaw | 13 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2021_DC_NGA_Shaw | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2023_DC_NGA_Shaw | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Shaw Memorial |
2016_DC_NGA_Davis | 114 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Stuart Davis: In Full Swing Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
November 20, 2016 – March 5, 2017
Stuart Davis (1892–1964) was an American original. Born in Philadelphia to artists and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, he dropped out of high school to study painting in Manhattan with Robert Henri, the legendary teacher who urged his... |
2024_02_19B1_NGA_Anxious | 126 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy
February 11 – May 27, 2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy presents insights into the work of these innovative, early 20th-century artists and their continuing impact a century later. The National Gallery of Art has important... |
2018_DC_NGA_Chiaroscuro | 75 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
October 14, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Chiaroscuro woodcuts—color prints made from the successive printing of multiple blocks—flourished in 16th-century Italy, interpreting designs by leading masters such as Raphael, Parmigianino, and Titian, while boasting... |
2013_DC_NGA_Dying_Gaul | 33 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Dying Gaul The Dying Gaul: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome
December 12, 2013 – March 16, 2014
Created in the first or second century AD, the Dying Gaul is one of the most renowned works from antiquity. This exhibition marks the first time it has left Italy since 1797, when... |
2021_DC_NGA_New_Women | 224 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The New Woman Behind the Camera The New Woman Behind the Camera
October 31, 2021 – January 30, 2022
The iconic New Woman—modern, independent, stylish, creative, and confident—was a revolutionary model for women across the globe. Featuring more than 120 international photographers, The New Woman Behind the Camera explores the diverse... |
2022_DC_NGA_Renaissance | 52 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives
July 3 – November 27, 2022
The region of northern Europe today known as Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands experienced momentous social, political, and artistic transformation from 1450 through the early 1600s, a time now... |
2019_DC_NGA_Pastels | 92 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art
September 29, 2019 – January 26, 2020
Through the centuries, artists have adopted a variety of approaches to pastel, experimenting with it to achieve exciting and unexpected effects. Featuring approximately 70 exquisite examples drawn... |
2017_DC_NGA_Urban | 26 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Urban Scene: 1920–1950 The Urban Scene: 1920–1950
February 26 – August 6, 2017
American artists of the early 20th century sought to interpret the beauty, power, and anxiety of the modern age in diverse ways. Through depictions of bustling city crowds and breathtaking metropolitan vistas, 25 black-and-white prints in this... |
2017_DC_NGA_Woodner | 121 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries
March 12 – July 16, 2017
Some 100 drawings dating from the 14th to the 20th century are presented in an exhibition of masterworks donated by one of the great connoisseurs of the 20th century, Ian Woodner, and his daughters, Dian and Andrea.... |
2023_DC_NGA_Britain | 82 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: This is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s This Is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s
January 29 – June 11, 2023
Britain experienced profound changes in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was racked by deindustrialization, urban uprisings, the controversial policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Troubles in Northern... |
2016_DC_NGA_3Centuries | 171 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Three Centuries of American Prints Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art
April 3 – July 24, 2016
Since opening in 1941, the Gallery has amassed an outstanding collection of American prints representing the history of American art from the early 18th century to the present. Timed to coincide with the... |
2019_DC_NGA_Tintoretto | 110 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
March 24 – July 7, 2019
In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/1519–1594), the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special cooperation of the Gallerie dell’Accademia,... |
2014_DC_NGA_Danae | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Titian’s Danaë Titian’s Danaë from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples
July 1 – November 6, 2014
One of the most sensual paintings of the Italian Renaissance—Titian’s Danae? (1544–1545) from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples—will be on view at the Gallery to celebrate the commencement of Italy’s Presidency of the Council of... |
2020_DC_NGA_Nature | 137 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870 True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870
February 2 – May 3, 2020
An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, painting en plein air was a core practice for avant-garde artists in Europe. Intrepid artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John... |
2019_DC_NGA_Tintoretto_Prt | 38 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto
March 24 – June 9, 2019
Completing the panorama of Venetian art in the time Tintoretto is an exhibition that will present some 40 prints from the second half of the 16th century, ranging from the exquisite etchings of Parmigianino and his immediate followers... |
2022_DC_NGA_Vermeer_Secrets | 65 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Vermeer’s Secrets Vermeer’s Secrets
October 8, 2022 – January 8, 2023
Only about 35 paintings by Johannes Vermeer are known today. The National Gallery owns four works by or attributed to this beloved 17th-century Dutch artist: Woman Holding a Balance, A Lady Writing, Girl with the Red Hat, and Girl with a Flute.
For... |
2017_DC_NGA_Vermeer | 126 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
October 22, 2017 – January 21, 2018
This landmark exhibition examines the artistic exchanges among Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries from the mid-1650s to around 1680, when they reached the height of their technical ability and... |
2019_DC_NGA_Verrocchio | 110 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
September 15, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence is the first-ever monographic exhibition in the United States on Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488), the innovative artist, painter, sculptor, and... |
2022_DC_NGA_Carpaccio | 174 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
November 20, 2022 – February 12, 2023
A leading figure in the art of Renaissance Venice, Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526) is best known for his large, spectacular narrative paintings that brought sacred history to life. Although for... |
2018_DC_NGA_Water | 77 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
July 1 – November 25, 2018
The Dutch rose to greatness from the riches of the sea. During the seventeenth century they became leaders in marine travel, transport, commerce, and security as their massive cargo carriers and warships... |
2020_DC_NGA_4Ward | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Forward Into Light |
2012_DC_NGA_French | 11 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- French galleries reopen |
2002_DC_NGAP | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2004_DC_NGAP | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2005_DC_NGAP | 93 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2007_DC_NGAP | 29 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2008_DC_NGAP | 39 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2010_DC_NGAP | 29 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2011_DC_NGAP | 64 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings Including William J. Stone's "Declaration of Independence" |
2012_DC_NGAP | 283 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings Including the reopening of the French wing. |
2013_DC_NGAP | 6 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2014_DC_NGAP | 59 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2015_DC_NGAP | 62 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2016_DC_NGAP | 53 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings The Corcoran acquisitions have been incorporated further. |
2017_DC_NGAP | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
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2019_DC_NGAP | 18 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2020_DC_NGAP | 54 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2021_DC_NGAP | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2022_DC_NGAP | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2023_DC_NGAP | 25 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2024_02_19B4_NGAP | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings |
2009_DC_NGAP1 | 429 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings (Page 1 of 3) My summer project was to try to photograph the entire public art collection at the National Gallery of Art. |
2009_DC_NGAP2 | 547 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings (Page 2 of 3) My summer project was to try to photograph the entire public art collection at the National Gallery of Art. |
2009_DC_NGAP3 | 343 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings (Page 3 of 3) My summer project was to try to photograph the entire public art collection at the National Gallery of Art. |
1997_DC_NGAS | 19 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
1998_DC_NGAS | 4 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
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2012_DC_NGAS | 18 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2013_DC_NGAS | 77 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2014_DC_NGAS | 5 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2015_DC_NGAS | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2016_DC_NGAS | 8 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2017_DC_NGAS | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2018_DC_NGAS | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2020_DC_NGAS | 2 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2021_DC_NGAS | 9 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2023_DC_NGAS | 1 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2024_02_19B3_NGAS | 3 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture |
2023_DC_NGA_Renovate | 67 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Temporary Gallery Shifting During Renovation |
2023_DC_NGA_Corcoran | 33 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing --The Corcoran Collection |
2010_DC_World_100321 | 11 | DC Env Film Festival (2010) -- World In Our Hands @ Natl Gallery The World in Our Hands (A Selection of Children's Films) (52 min.)
Join us for a program of award-winning animated short films, each with an inspiring message about caring for the environment. The main character in each film imagines a better world and finds a way to contribute to the greater good with... |
2018_DC_Meyers_181209 | 121 | National Gallery of Art -- Artist talk: linn meyers: work linn meyers: work
linn meyers, artist and cofounder, STABLE, in conversation with Jonathan Frederick Walz, director of curatorial affairs and curator of American art, Columbus Museum
Artist linn meyers creates works that reveal the expansive potential of drawing. In monumental installations drawn... |
2023_DC_NGA_Curtis_230507 | 13 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Curtis on Tour (Rehearsing) Curtis on Tour
Listen to an enthralling program of works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms featuring the Viano String Quartet with special guest artist Roberto Díaz.
Praised for their “huge range of dynamics, massive sound and spontaneity” (American Record Guide), this critically acclaimed quartet won... |
2010_DC_NGA_Tour | 11 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Docent tour of animals in paintings Pictures from a wonderful tour of about a dozen paintings involving animals at the gallery. The tour was given by National Gallery docent Eric Danker. |
2007_DC_NGKemp_070903 | 11 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Image Before My Eyes and Partisans of Vilna (w/Aviva Kempner) "Image Before My Eyes": Joshua Waletzky's landmark documentary, Image Before My Eyes, tells the story of Jewish life in Poland between the two world wars, using historical footage of urban and rural life as well as interviews with survivors of the period. Shown in conjunction with Foto: Modernity in... |
2009_DC_Soler_090628 | 9 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Introduction to "The Art of Power" w/Alvaro Soler del Campo Introduction to the Exhibition—"The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain".
Alvaro Soler del Campo, curator, Patrimonio Nacional, Real Armería, Madrid
From http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/3018/curator.shtm
Alvaro Soler del Campo is director of the Royal Armory in Madrid. He... |
2019_DC_Burns_190428 | 19 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Ken Burns and the American Story w/David M. Rubenstein Ken Burns, filmmaker, in conversation with David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, trustee of the National Gallery of Art, and chairman of the Smithsonian Institution This program is coordinated with the Foundation... |
2012_DC_Taikoza_120331 | 65 | National Gallery of Art -- Event: Taikoza Drum Performance Taikoza
Marco Lienhard
Satsuki (Month of May)
Odori (Summer Festival)
Utsu Hachijo (Song from the Island of Hachijo)
Lienhard
Eisa (Okinawan Festival)
Odaiko (Big Drum)
Chichibu Yatai Bayashi (Chichibu Festival Drum Song)
The Musicians:
Founded in 1995 in New York City by members of... |