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 20th centuries. This special exhibition, the first in 45 years to explore the extraordinary legacy left to the nation by this passionate collector, features some 83 of his finest French and American paintings.
Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau (1834), Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), Mary Cassatt's Boating Party (1893/1894), Edouard Manet's Old Musician (1862), Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques (1905), and George Bellows' Blue Morning (1909). Other artists represented include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet.
Dale was an astute businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street in the bond market. He thrived on forging deals and translated much of this energy and talent into his art collecting. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Art from 1943 and as president from 1955 until his death in 1962. Portraits of Dale by Salvador Dalí and Diego Rivera are included in the show, along with portraits of Dale's wife Maud (who greatly influenced his interest in art) painted by George Bellows and Fernand Léger.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art.
Sponsor: The exhibition is made possible by United Technologies Corporation.
Schedule: National Gallery of Art, January 31, 2010–July 31, 2011
The above is from http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/daleinfo.shtm
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From Impressionism to Modernism
The Chester Dale Collection
The remarkable collection of paintings that Chester Dale (1883-1962) bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art profoundly transformed the museum's holdings of French art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More than three hundred works of art came to the Gallery through this single benefactor, the first donated in 1942, only a year after the museum opened its doors. Dale was an astute businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street in the bond market. He thrived on making deals and translated much of this energy and talent into acquiring great works of art, a passionate enterprise undertaken with the encouragement and discerning guidance of his wife, Maud, herself a trained artist. "She had the knowledge, I had the acquisitiveness," Dale often stated. The result was a formidable partnership.
The Dales' initial foray into collecting began in 1918, with purchases of American art, including the works of George Bellows. By the mid-1920s, Maud helped to focus their collecting on French art spanning 150 years, from paintings by impressionistic and post-impressionistic artists such as Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Auguste Renoir. They were also among the most notable Americans to buy works by contemporary artists such as Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and later Diego Rivera and Salvador Dali.
The Chester Dale Collection has long enjoyed a mythic status in the history of collecting modern art in America. In accordance with a stipulation Dale included in his will, none of the paintings in his bequest is ever lent. The National Gallery is presenting a selection of some eighty of the finest paintings from the collection in a new exhibition for the first time since the gift was officially unveiled to the public in 1965. Additional works from Dale's extraordinary collection are also on view throughout the museum.
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