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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March 24 - July 7, 2019
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
March 24 - June 9, 2019
Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto
January 21 - April 12, 2019
In the Library: The Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art
December 13, 2018 - July 30, 2019
Diverse Modernisms, 1935–1955
November 14, 2018 - February 18, 2019
No More Play
Narrow boards of a wood gymnasium floor were taken apart and reassembled as vertical planks that make up this wide, rectangular panel, which hangs on a wall. Several boards have long strips of black tape and one, near the top right corner, has a band of red tape. Most of the markings are short checks of black, white, red, and green tape. The wood stain is dark in some areas, gray with damage in others, or flaking in places. The two longest horizontal black stripes are near the top left corner and across the right half, about a third of the way down from the top edge of the piece. The room where this hangs has wider planked wood floors and a white wall.
November 4, 2018 - February 18, 2019
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, 1940-1950
A young Black man stands in profile looking out a tall window to our right in this vertical black and white photograph. The image is cropped so his head, shoulder, and upper arm fill the left half of the composition. He has short hair and wears a shirt or jacket that diffuses the light to suggest that it could be flannel or another soft fabric. With a cigarette dangling loosely from his lips, he stares through the shattered upper pane of the window and he holds his right hand across his chest. The strong light source from the right accentuates his nose, cheeks, hair, and shoulder, and the space behind him is lost in shadow. A blurred, three-story building across the street has a dark façade with white stone lintels above the windows and a mansard roof with curved dormers.
October 14, 2018 - January 20, 2019
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy

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