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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October 4, 2016 - January 2, 2017
Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt
September 30, 2016 - April 11, 2017
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle
Pools of sapphire, aquamarine, and cobalt-blue watercolor puddle and bleed together in this abstract painting on paper. Most of the horizonal sheet is taken up with a dark blue form reminiscent of a hill. The upper corners of the sheet are painted powder blue, suggesting sky. The sheet is edged with the white of the paper, and the darker and lighter blue areas are also mostly separated by a thin white line.
September 30, 2016 - January 29, 2017
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971
September 30, 2016 - January 22, 2017
In the Tower: Barbara Kruger
A grainy black and white photograph showing a close-up of a woman’s profile is overlaid with three horizontal red bands with white text at the top, center, and bottom edges of this horizontal composition. The woman seems to lie down and look up at a metal instrument, perhaps a piece of medical equipment, with a long, eye-dropper-like tube extending close to her face. Her cheeks and profile appear between the central and bottom bands of text. Lit from our left, she has dark eyebrows and eyelashes, a straight nose, and her lips are closed. She seems to have pale skin and her hair is covered by a fold of fabric, perhaps a hat. The eye we see is open and the metal instrument points to the bridge of her nose, seeming to close in on her right eye. Light colored fabric behind her could be the uniform of a person standing opposite us. The red bands have white lettering saying, “Know nothing” across the top; “Believe anything” across the center; and “Forget everything” across the bottom.
September 30, 2016 - March 5, 2017
Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
September 30, 2016 - January 29, 2017
In the Library: Selections from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives
August 13 - November 27, 2016
Damien Hirst: The Last Supper

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