December • November november • december 2005 calendar 

 F O R T H E M O S T U P - T O - D AT E C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S W W W. N G A . G O V / G I N F O / G E N I N F O . H T M V I S I T 

National

 Gallery of Art,

Washington

Pieter Claesz: Master 

of Haarlem Still Life

Through December 31, 2005

West Building, Dutch Cabinet Galleries 

Pieter Claesz, Tabletop Still Life with

 Mince Pie and Basket of Grapes (detail), 1625,

Private collection

National Gallery of Art

NW Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue 

DC Washington, 

Mailing address:

 South Club Drive B 2000

 20785 MD Landover, 

www.nga.gov • (202) 737-425

Non-Profit Organization

U.S. Postage

PAID

Washington, DC

Permit No. 972
exhibitions

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C O N T I N U I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Winslow Homer in the 

National Gallery of Art

Through February 20, 2006

East Building, Mezzanine

The National Gallery of Art owns 

an important group of oil paintings and watercolors by Winslow 

Homer (836 –90), one of America’s most distinguished and bestknown artists. From early oils such 

as the Civil War scene Home, Sweet 

Home (863), to the late watercolor 

masterworks including Key West, 

Hauling Anchor (903), all phases 

of Homer’s career are represented 

in this exhibition of works selected 

from the Gallery’s own collection.

Organized by the National Gallery 

of Art, Washington.

Sponsored by Siemens.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/homerinfo.htm

O P E N I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Nicholas Nixon: 

The Brown Sisters

November 13, 2005 – February 20, 2006

West Building, Ground Floor

Beginning in 975, Boston-based 

photographer Nicholas Nixon 

(b. 947) has made one photograph 

each year of his wife, Beverly (Bebe) 

Brown, with her three sisters. 

The resulting thirty-one photographs on view in this exhibition 

create one of the most compelling 

investigations of portraiture and 

time in contemporary photography. 

Viewers can study not only incidental changes in background, lighting, and dress, but also the gradual, 

incremental aging of the women, 

as well as changes in demeanor 

and their relationships with one 

another. Although the photographs 

C O N T I N U I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Masterpieces 

in Miniature: 

Italian Manuscript 

Illumination from 

the J. Paul Getty 

Museum

Through January 2, 2006

East Building, Mezzanine

Painting in books was a major art 

form in the Middle Ages and 

Renaissance. The artistic achievements of manuscript illuminators 

from six regions in Italy during 

the twelfth through sixteenth centuries are explored through fortyfour exquisite volumes, individual 

leaves, and miniatures from the J. 

Paul Getty Museum, as well as a 

select number of related medals and 

panel paintings from the Gallery’s 

own collection, a seven-minute 

video on the complex process of 

creating a manuscript, and listening 

stations of recorded Gregorian 

chants that appear in two of the 

choir books on display.

The exhibition begins in southern Italy with a breviary from Montecassino, the cradle of Benedictine 

monasticism, proceeding to Bologna, the site of the first medieval 

university, and then on to Siena, 

Florence, and the Renaissance 

courts of northern Italy. It ends 

in Rome, the seat of papal power 

and home to some of the greatest 

High Renaissance works of art. 

Organized by the J. Paul Getty 

Museum, Los Angeles.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/miniatureinfo.htm

C O N T I N U I N G E X H I B I T I O N

The Prints of Félix 

Buhot: Impressions of 

City and Sea

Through February 20, 2006

West Building, Ground Floor

French artist Félix-Hilaire Buhot 

(847 – 898) created impressionist 

prints notable for their inventiveness in depicting conditions such 

as rain, snow, mist, and fog. The 

Gallery maintains an outstanding 

collection of over one hundred 

Buhot prints and drawings, many 

rare, from which this exhibition 

is drawn. Sixty-four prints and four 

drawings closely examine Buhot’s 

experimental techniques through 

his two most frequent subjects: 

the city and the sea. His city prints 

depict the grand public squares 

and streets of Paris and London; 

those of the sea show passing 

tempests, foreboding skies, and 

pervasive melancholy. 

Organized by the National Gallery 

of Art, Washington.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/buhotinfo.htm

Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, 

1984. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund

Franco dei Russi, Initial E: The Adoration of the Magi, probably Ferrara 

or Mantua, 1470s. © The J. Paul Getty 

Museum, Los Angeles

have their roots in family snapshots, the artist’s rigor and the 

subjects’ commitment transcend 

the project’s more informal heritage, creating a moving testament 

to human relationships.

Organized by the National Gallery 

of Art, Washington.

This exhibition was made possible 

through the generous support of 

the Trellis Fund and The Ryna and 

Melvin Cohen Family Foundation.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/nixoninfo.htm

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, Winter in Paris 

(Paris in the Snow), 1879. National 

Gallery of Art, Washington, Helena 

Gunnarsson Buhot Collection
exhibitions

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C O N T I N U I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Audubon’s Dream 

Realized: Selections 

from The Birds of 

America

Through March 26, 2006

West Building, Central Gallery

John James Audubon (785 – 85) 

produced some of the most beautiful and lifelike depictions of birds 

ever created. This exhibition presents one of the artist’s oil paintings, 

the superb Osprey and Weakfish

(829), a new gift to the Gallery 

from Richard Mellon Scaife, as well 

as fifty of the artist’s hand-colored 

etchings selected from the Gallery’s 

early edition of The Birds of America

(827 – 838), one of only two 

known complete sets preserved in 

an original, unbound state. 

Audubon’s dream of recording 

every bird native to North America 

consumed nearly twenty years of 

his life and was realized with the 

publication of this mammoth edition consisting of 435 hand-colored 

etchings, all based on his vivid 

life-size drawings. Some of the set’s 

most celebrated and outstanding 

prints will be on view, including 

American Flamingo (838), Carolina 

Parrot (827), and Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (829), which depicts a species thought to be extinct until its 

recent sighting in Arkansas. 

In conjunction with the education division of the National Gallery 

of Art, the Audubon Naturalist 

Society in Chevy Chase, Maryland 

is offering a bird-watching walk 

on November 9 and December 0, 

where participants may view birds 

portrayed by Audubon. To register, 

call (30) 652-988, ext. 0.

Organized by the National Gallery 

of Art, Washington.

This exhibition is made possible by 

General Dynamics.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/auduboninfo.htm

U P C O M I N G E X H I B I T I O N S

Cézanne in Provence

January 29 – May 7, 2006

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/

cezanneinfo.htm

Dada

February 19 – May 14, 2006

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/

dadainfo.htm

Amorous Intrigues and 

Painterly Refinement: 

The Art of Frans van 

Mieris

February 26 – May 21, 2006

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/

vanmierisinfo.htm

C L O S I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Pieter Claesz: Master 

of Haarlem Still Life

Through December 31, 2005

West Building, Dutch Cabinet 

Galleries 

Pieter Claesz, who lived and 

worked in Haarlem between 62 

and 660, was one of the most 

important Dutch still-life painters 

of the seventeenth century. Claesz 

pioneered the development of 

monochrome tabletop still lifes (socalled banketjes), quietly restrained 

works imbued with an extraordinary sense of naturalism. The exhibition showcases twenty-seven of 

Claesz’s still lifes from all phases of 

his career. The paintings of mincemeat pies, breads, lemons, olives, 

nuts, fruits, and wine are visual 

feasts that delight the eye and whet 

the appetite. 

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Frans Hals 

Museum, Haarlem, and the Kunsthaus Zürich.

The exhibition in Washington is made 

possible through the generous support 

of Greg and Candy Fazakerley.

The exhibition is supported by an 

indemnity from the Federal Council 

on the Arts and the Humanities.

Catalogue: hardcover, $50 

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/claeszinfo.htm

C L O S I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Origins of European 

Printmaking: FifteenthCentury Woodcuts and 

Their Public

Through November 27, 2005

West Building, Ground Floor

The introduction of printing in 

Europe — an event as significant for 

the reproduction of pictures as it was 

for books — had a profound impact 

on Western culture. This exhibition 

of some 40 early woodcuts, manuscripts, printed textiles, and other 

related objects examines the multifaceted role of the replicated image 

in late medieval culture.

The majority of works in this 

exhibition come from the outstanding collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Germanisches 

Nationalmuseum, together with 

loans from many public and private 

collections throughout Europe 

and America.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the 

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 

Nuremberg.

Air transportation is provided by 

Lufthansa.

The exhibition is supported by an 

indemnity from the Federal Council 

on the Arts and the Humanities.

Catalogue: hardcover, $65 

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/originsinfo.htm

C L O S I N G E X H I B I T I O N

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, 

Nanni di Banco, 

and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele

Through December 31, 2005

West Building, Main Floor

Three monumental masterpieces 

of Italian Renaissance sculpture 

by Lorenzo Ghiberti (378 – 455), 

Nanni di Banco (c. 380/85 – 42), 

and Andrea del Verrocchio (435 – 

488) have traveled to the National 

Gallery of Art to celebrate the completion of their restoration. It is 

the first time that major works by 

Ghiberti and Nanni di Banco are 

on view in the United States. 

The works, Ghiberti’s Saint 

Matthew (49–423), Nanni di 

Banco’s Quattro Santi Coronati 

(Four Crowned Martyr Saints)

(c. 409 – c. 47), and Verrocchio’s 

Christ and Saint Thomas (467 – 

483), were originally created for 

the exterior of Orsanmichele in 

Florence, and they represent the 

highest achievement of fifteenthcentury Florentine sculpture. 

During the Renaissance, Orsanmichele — one of the most important 

though less well-known Renaissance structures — functioned both 

as a church and a grain storage 

and market facility; the Florentine 

trade guilds chose it as the site for 

statues of their patron saints. Since 

984 the statues have undergone 

conservation under the supervision 

of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, 

Florence’s premier national restoration center.

The exhibition has been organized by 

the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Opificio delle Pietre 

Dure, Florence, in collaboration 

with the Soprintendenza per i Beni 

Architettonici e per il Paesaggio and 

the Soprintendenza al Patrimonio 

Storico Artistico e Etnoantropologico, 

Florence.

The exhibition is made possible 

through the generous support of an 

anonymous donor.

The exhibition is supported by an 

indemnity from the Federal Council 

on the Arts and the Humanities.

Learn more: www.nga.gov/

exhibitions/orsanmicheleinfo.htm

Installation view of Andrea del 

Verrocchio’s Christ and Saint Thomas

(1467–1483) at the National Gallery 

of Art. Photo by Rob Shelley. © 2005 

Board of Trustees, National Gallery of 

Art, Washington

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Roseate Spoonbill, 1836. National 

Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of 

Mrs. Walter B. James
N O V E M B E R

 1 T U E S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Record of a 

“Vanishing Race”: George 

Catlin and His Indian 

Paintings (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Origins of 

European Printmaking: 

Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts 

and Their Public (wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Pieter Claesz: 

Master of Haarlem Still Life 

(wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Andrew 

Mellon’s Paintings (wb)

 2 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winslow 

Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (eb)

 Gallery Talk Origins of 

European Printmaking: 

Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts 

and Their Public (wb)

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Reading Food 

and Drink (wb)

 3 T H U R S D A Y

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Pieter Claesz: 

Master of Haarlem Still Life 

(wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Andrew 

Mellon’s Paintings (wb)

 4 F R I D A Y

 0:5 • Lecture Passion, Death, 

and Resurrection of Jesus 

(eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winslow 

Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (eb)

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Reading Food 

and Drink in Art (wb)

 5 S A T U R D A Y

 0:00 Family Activity 

Family Weekend: 

Explore Sculpture (eb)

 0:30 Children’s Film Alexander 

Calder On-screen (ebsa)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winslow 

Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (eb)

 2:00 Film A Model for Matisse: 

The Chapel of the Rosary at 

Vence (eba)

 4:00 Film I Am Cuba (eba)

 6 S U N D A Y

 :00 Family Activity 

Family Weekend:

Explore Sculpture (eb)

 :30 Children’s Film Alexander 

Calder On-screen (ebsa)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winslow 

Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (eb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Record of a 

“Vanishing Race”: George 

Catlin and His Indian 

Paintings (wb)

 2:00 Lecture Titian Paints 

Isabella d’Este (eba)

 4:00 Film I Am Cuba (eba)

 6:30 Concert National Gallery 

Vocal Arts Ensemble (wgc)

 7 M O N D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winslow 

Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (eb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Andrew 

Mellon’s Paintings (wb)

 8 T U E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Masterpieces 

in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination 

from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum (eb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb) 

 9 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb)

 2:30 Film Other People’s Pictures 

(eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Andrew 

Mellon’s Paintings (wb)

 10 T H U R S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Record of a 

“Vanishing Race”: George 

Catlin and His Indian 

Paintings (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb)

 2:30 Film Other People’s Pictures 

(eba)

 11 F R I D A Y

 0:5 • Lecture Mary, Angels, and 

the Saints (eba)

 2:30 Film Other People’s Pictures 

(eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Masterpieces 

in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination 

from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum (eb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Audubon in 

Focus (wb)

 12 S A T U R D A Y

 2:30 Film Other People’s Pictures 

(eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Audubon in 

Focus (wb)

 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

A Valparaíso; Valparaíso, 

mi amor (eba)

 13 S U N D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Masterpieces 

in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination 

from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum (eb)

 :00 Family Activity 

Workshop: Feathered 

Friends (wb)

 2:00 Lecture The Sydney J. 

Freedberg Lecture on Italian 

Art: Illuminated Choral 

Manuscripts of the Italian 

Renaissance (eba)

 4:00 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

Palomita blanca (eba)

 6:30 Concert Håvard Gimse, 

pianist (wgc)

 14 M O N D A Y

 2:0 Lecture The Mermaid 

in the Study: Renaissance 

Bronzes of Hybrid Sea 

Creatures (ebsa)

 :00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb)

 :0 Lecture The Mermaid 

in the Study: Renaissance 

Bronzes of Hybrid Sea 

Creatures (ebsa)

 15 T U E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 16 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Masterpieces 

in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination 

from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum (eb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Nicholas 

Nixon: The Brown Sisters 

(wb)

 17 T H U R S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Emanuel de 

Witte’s “The Interior of the 

Oude Kerk, Amsterdam” 

(wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Masterpieces 

in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination 

from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum (eb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 18 F R I D A Y

 0:5 • Lecture More Saints and 

the Last Judgment (eba)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 19 S A T U R D A Y

 2:00 Lecture New Art City: 

Adventures among the 

Painters and Poets of MidCentury Manhattan (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio 

at Orsanmichele (wb)

 4:00 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

Salvador Allende (eba)

 20 S U N D A Y

 :30 Family Activity 

Stories in Art: The Empty 

Pot (wb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Family Activity 

Stories in Art: The Empty 

Pot (wb)

 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 2:00 Lecture Rediscovering a 

French Romantic Artist: 

Félicie de Fauveau (eba)

 4:00 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Vive le tour; 

Place de la République (eba)

 6:30 Concert Adkins-Newman 

Duo (wgc)

 22 T U E S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 23 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Origins of 

European Printmaking: 

Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts 

and Their Public (wb)

 25 F R I D A Y

 2:30 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: God’s 

Country (eba)

 3:00 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: And the 

Pursuit of Happiness (eba)

 26 S A T U R D A Y

 2:30 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: My Dinner 

with André (eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Audubon in 

Focus (wb)

 3:00 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: My Dinner 

with André (eba)

 27 S U N D A Y

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Winter Scenes 

in the National Gallery 

(wb)

 2:00 Lecture The Still Lifes of 

Pieter Claesz: Visual Feasts 

That Delight the Eye and 

Whet the Appetite (eba)

 Lecture Food in Pieter 

Claesz’s Paintings: 

Reflections of Reality? (eba)

 4:30 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: El 

Chacalde Nahueltoro (eba)

 6:30 Concert Awadagin Pratt, 

pianist (wgc)

 29 T U E S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Nicholas 

Nixon: The Brown Sisters 

(wb)

 30 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Point/

Counterpoint: Jackson 

Pollock (eb)

 Guide to Locations

 eb East Building 

 Art Information Desk

 eba East Building Auditorium

 ebsa East Building Small Auditorium

 wb West Building Rotunda

 wblh West Building Lecture Hall

 wgc West Building, 

 West Garden Court

 sg Sculpture Garden

 sgp Sculpture Garden Pavilion Café

 See listings under Guided Tours 

 for daily tours of the collections 

 and foreign language tours.

 Programs subject to change.

For up-to-date information, visit 

our Web site: www.nga.gov.

• Denotes lectures in the Christian 

Imagery in European Art series

 N A T I O N A L G A L L E R Y O F A R T • N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 5 W W W . N G A . G O V 3

calendar
 1 T H U R S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Focus on 

Winslow Homer (eb)

 2:00 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts  – 3) (eba)

 2 F R I D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 2:00 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts  – 3) (eba)

 3 S A T U R D A Y

 0:30 Children’s Film Bambi 

(eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Nicholas 

Nixon: The Brown Sisters 

(wb)

 2:00 Lecture Champion of the 

Avant-Garde: Katharine 

Kuh and the New York 

School (eba)

 4:00 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: Julio 

comienza en Julio (Julio 

Begins in July) (eba)

 4 S U N D A Y

 :30 Children’s Film Bambi 

(eba)

 :00 Family Activity 

Workshop: Feathered 

Friends (wb)

 Gallery Talk Nicholas 

Nixon: The Brown Sisters 

(wb)

 2:00 Lecture Louis Malle’s 

Reinventions (eba)

 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Human, Too 

Human (eba)

 4:30 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Calcutta (eba)

 6:30 Concert Geir Draugsvoll, 

accordionist (wgc)

 5 M O N D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Pieter Claesz: 

Master of Haarlem Still Life 

(wb)

 2:0 Lecture The Art of the 

Name: Some SixteenthCentury Italian Artists’ 

Names (ebsa)

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 :0 Lecture The Art of the 

Name: Some SixteenthCentury Italian Artists’ 

Names (ebsa)

 6 T U E S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Pieter Claesz: 

Master of Haarlem Still Life 

(wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Paintings and 

Tapestries (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Focus on 

Winslow Homer (eb)

 7 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Pieter Claesz: 

Master of Haarlem Still Life 

(wb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Point/

Counterpoint: Jackson 

Pollock (eb)

 8 T H U R S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Point/

Counterpoint: Jackson 

Pollock (eb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba) 

 :00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Paintings and 

Tapestries (wb)

 2:00 Film Risk and Reinvention 

— the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts 4, 5) (eba)

 9 F R I D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and 

Majolica (wb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winter Scenes 

in the National Gallery 

(wb)

 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts 4, 5) (eba)

 10 S A T U R D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Paintings and 

Tapestries (wb)

 :30 Holiday Caroling 

Fredericksburg Singers

(wb) 

 2:00 Gallery Talk Winter Scenes 

in the National Gallery 

(wb)

 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Vanya on 

Forty-second Street (eba)

 2:30 Holiday Caroling 

Fredericksburg Singers 

(wb)

 4:30 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: La 

Frontera (The Borderland)

(eba)

 11 S U N D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk Focus on 

Winslow Homer (eb)

 :30 Family Activity 

Stories in Art: The Snowy 

Day (wb)

 2:00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and 

Majolica (wb)

 2:30 Film Winslow Homer: The 

Nature of the Artist (eba)

 :00 Family Activity 

Stories in Art: The Snowy 

Day (wb)

 :30 Holiday Caroling 

Annapolis Christian 

School Madrigal Singers 

(wb)

 2:00 Lecture The Domenichino 

Affair: Novelty, Imitation, 

and Theft in SeventeenthCentury Rome (eba)

 2:30 Holiday Caroling 

Annapolis Christian 

School Madrigal Singers 

(wb)

 4:00 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

Amnesia; Chile Obstinate 

Memory (eba)

 6:30 Concert Pacifica String 

Quartet (eba)

 12 M O N D A Y

 2:0 Lecture From Jerusalem to 

Paris with the Volto Santo 

of Lucca (ebsa)

 :0 Lecture From Jerusalem to 

Paris with the Volto Santo 

of Lucca (ebsa)

 13 T U E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Nicholas 

Nixon: The Brown Sisters 

(wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Paintings and 

Tapestries (wb)

 14 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Point/

Counterpoint: Jackson 

Pollock (eb)

 15 T H U R S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Paintings and 

Tapestries (wb)

 2:30 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts 6, 7) (eba)

 16 F R I D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and 

Majolica (wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 2:30 Film Risk and Reinvention

 — the Films of Louis 

Malle series: Phantom 

India (parts 6, 7) (eba)

 17 S A T U R D A Y

 2:00 Lecture The Story of a 

Missing Caravaggio (eba)

 :30 Holiday Caroling Central 

Bucks High School West 

Chamber Choir (wb)

 2:30 Holiday Caroling Central 

Bucks High School West 

Chamber Choir (wb)

 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

Coronación (Coronation)

(eba)

 18 S U N D A Y

 :30 Holiday Caroling 

Metropolitan Memorial 

United Methodist Church 

Vocal and Handbell 

Choirs (wb)

 2:00 Lecture Looking at 

Winslow Homer’s 

Watercolors (eba) 

 2:30 Holiday Caroling 

Metropolitan Memorial 

United Methodist Church 

Vocal and Handbell 

Choirs (wb)

 4:30 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: El 

Chacotero Sentimental (The 

Sentimental Teaser) (eba) 

 6:30 Concert Suspicious Cheese 

Lords (wgc)

 19 M O N D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and 

Majolica (wb)

 20 T U E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 21 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Joseph 

Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and 

Majolica (wb)

 :00 Gallery Talk Monumental 

Sculpture from Renaissance 

Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni 

di Banco, and Verrocchio at 

Orsanmichele (wb)

 22 T H U R S D A Y

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 23 F R I D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Audubon in 

Focus (wb)

 27 T U E S D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Focus on 

Winslow Homer (eb)

 28 W E D N E S D A Y

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 29 T H U R S D A Y

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 :00 Gallery Talk The Christmas 

Story in Art (wb)

 30 F R I D A Y

 2:00 Gallery Talk Audubon in 

Focus (wb)

 2:30 Film Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy Working 

with Time (eba)

 31 S A T U R D A Y

 2:00 Film Cine Chileno: 

Forty Years of Film 

from Chile series: 

Machuca (eba)

D E C E M B E R

 Guide to Locations

 eb East Building 

 Art Information Desk

 eba East Building Auditorium

 ebsa East Building Small Auditorium

 wb West Building Rotunda

 wblh West Building Lecture Hall

 wgc West Building, 

 West Garden Court

 sg Sculpture Garden

 sgp Sculpture Garden Pavilion Café

 See listings under Guided Tours 

 for daily tours of the collections 

 and foreign language tours.

 Programs subject to change.

For up-to-date information, visit 

our Web site: www.nga.gov.

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calendar
programs

Audio Programs

West Building, Mall entrance

The Director’s Tour: 

Masterpieces at the National 

Gallery

Rental: $5 per tour

Adventures in Art

Rental: $3 per tour, $2 for additional headphones

Guided Tours 

West Building Rotunda (wb) or East 

Building Art Information Desk (eb)

Introductory Tours

1900 to Now: An Introduction to the 

East Building Collection (eb)

Monday – Friday at 0:30 and :30

Saturday and Sunday at :30 

and 3:30

American Collection (wb)

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 

and Sunday at :30

Early Italian to Early Modern: 

An Introduction to the West Building 

Collection (wb)

Monday – Friday at :30

Saturday at 0:30 and 2:30

Sunday at 2:30 and 4:30

Italian Renaissance Collection (wb)

Monday, Wednesday, and 

Friday at 2:30 

Saturday and Sunday at :30

Nineteenth-Century French 

Collection (wb)

Tuesday and Thursday at 2:30 

Saturday and Sunday at 3:30

Points of View: The Painter’s 

Choices (wb)

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 

at 2:30 

New Tour

The Sculpture Galleries (wb)

Tuesday and Thursday at :30

Saturday and Sunday at :30

Foreign Language Tours

American art in French: November 

7 and December 5 at 2:00 (wb)

American art in Spanish:

November 8 and December 23 

at 2:00 (wb)

Chinese: November 6 and 

December 4 at 2:00 (wb) 

and 2:00 (eb)

French: November 2 and 

December 9 at 2:00 (wb) 

and 2:00 (eb)

German: November 5 and 9; 

December 20 and 24 at 2:00 

(wb) and 2:00 (eb)

Italian: November 8 and 2; 

December 3 and 7 at 2:00 

(wb) and 2:00 (eb)

Japanese: November 5, 0, 5, and 

7; December 3, 8, 3, and 22 at 

2:00 (wb) and 2:00 (eb)

Russian: November 2 and 

December 0 at 2:00 (wb) 

and 2:00 (eb)

Spanish: November 8, 7, and 9; 

December 6, 5, and 7 at 2:00 

(wb) and 2:00 (eb)

Lectures

East Building Auditorium (eba) / 2:00 

(except where noted)

Special Lecture Series

Christian Imagery in European Art

Presented by J. Russell Sale (0:5)

An exploration of major themes and 

symbols from the Old and New 

Testaments from the rise of Christianity through the seventeenth century. Look for the (•) symbol on 

page 3 to indicate these programs.

November 4: Passion, Death, 

and Resurrection of Jesus

November : Mary, Angels, 

and the Saints

November 8: More Saints and 

the Last Judgment

Weekend Lectures

November 6: Titian Paints Isabella 

d’Este. Joanna Woods-Marsden, 

professor of art history, University 

of California, Los Angeles

November 3: The Sydney J.

Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: 

Illuminated Choral Manuscripts of 

the Italian Renaissance. Jonathan J. 

G. Alexander, Sherman Fairchild 

Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of 

Fine Arts, New York University

November 9: New Art City: 

Adventures among the Painters and 

Poets of Mid-Century Manhattan.

Jed Perl, art critic, The New Republic,

and author of New Art City. Book 

signing to follow. (2:00)

November 20: Rediscovering a 

French Romantic Artist: Félicie 

de Fauveau. Charles Janoray, 

independent scholar, New York

November 27: The Still Lifes of 

Pieter Claesz: Visual Feasts That 

Delight the Eye and Whet the 

Appetite. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., 

curator, northern baroque 

paintings, National Gallery of Art; 

Food in Pieter Claesz’s Paintings: 

Reflections of Reality? Peter G. Rose, 

author and food historian

December 3: Champion of the 

Avant-Garde: Katharine Kuh and 

the New York School. Avis Berman, 

writer and art historian. Book 

signing to follow. 

December 4: Louis Malle’s Reinventions. Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado, 

executive director, International 

Film Seminars. Film to follow.

December : The Domenichino 

Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and 

Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome.

Elizabeth Cropper, dean, Center 

for Advanced Study in the Visual 

Arts, National Gallery of Art. Book 

signing to follow. 

December 7: The Story of a Missing 

Caravaggio. Jonathan Harr, author 

of The Lost Painting. Book signing 

to follow. (2:00)

December 8: Looking at Winslow 

Homer’s Watercolors. Barbara Ernst 

Prey, artist, and Judy Walsh, 

associate professor of paper 

conservation, Buffalo State 

University, New York

Works in Progress

East Building Small Auditorium (ebsa) 

Mondays, 12:10 and 1:10

November 4: The Mermaid in 

the Study: Renaissance Bronzes of 

Hybrid Sea Creatures. Alison Luchs, 

curator of early European sculpture, 

National Gallery of Art

December 5: The Art of the Name: 

Some Sixteenth-Century Italian 

Artists’ Names. Robert G. LaFrance, 

research associate, Center for 

Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 

National Gallery of Art 

December 2: From Jerusalem to 

Paris with the Volto Santo of Lucca.

Areli Marina, visiting assistant 

professor, department of art, music, 

and theater, Georgetown University

Gallery Talks

West Building Rotunda (wb) or East 

Building Art Information Desk (eb)

Introducing Art

Reading Food and Drink in Art

(60 mins.). Philip Leonard. 

November 2 and 4 at :00 (wb)

Special Exhibitions

Origins of European Printmaking: 

Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and 

Their Public (60 mins.). Eric 

Denker. November , 2, and 23 at 

2:00 (wb) 

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem 

Still Life (60 mins.). Philip Leonard 

and Eric Denker. November  and 3 

at :00; December 5, 6, and 7 at 

2:00 (wb)

Winslow Homer in the National 

Gallery of Art (50 mins.). Diane 

Arkin. November 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 

at 2:00 (eb)

Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscript Illumination from the 

J. Paul Getty Museum (50 mins.). 

J. Russell Sale. November 8, 3, 6, 

and 7 at 2:00; November  at 

:00 (eb)

Audubon in Focus (30 mins.). Anna 

O. Marley, graduate student lecturer, November , 2, and 26 at 

2:00; Philip Leonard, December 23 

and 30 at 2:00 (wb)

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di 

Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele (50 mins.). David Gariff and 

J. Russell Sale. November 5, 7, 

9, 20, and 22, and December 2 at 

:00; December 6 at :00; December 5 at 2:00 (wb)

Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters

(50 mins.). Sally Shelburne. November 6 and 29, and December 4 at 

:00; December 3 and 3 at 2:00 

(wb)

Focus on Winslow Homer (30 mins.). 

Kimberly Curtiss, graduate student 

lecturer, December  and  at :00 

and December 6 at 2:00; staff, 

December 27 at 2:00 (eb)

Focus: The Collection

Andrew Mellon’s Paintings (60 mins.). 

Dianne Stephens. November , 3, 7, 

and 9 at 2:00 (wb)

Record of a “Vanishing Race”: George 

Catlin and His Indian Paintings

(30 mins.). Kimberly Curtiss, graduate student lecturer. November  

and 0 at :00; November 6 at :00 

(wb)

Emanuel de Witte’s “The Interior of 

the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam”

(20 mins.). Christopher With. 

November 8 and 4 at :00; 

November 9, 0, and 5 at 2:00; 

November 7 at :00 (wb)

Winter Scenes in the National Gallery (30 mins.). Anna O. Marley, 

graduate student lecturer. November 27 at :00; December 9 and 0 

at 2:00 (wb)

Point/Counterpoint: Jackson Pollock

(50 mins.). David Gariff and 

Sally Shelburne. November 30 

and December 7, 4 at :00; 

December 8 at 2:00 (eb)

The Christmas Story in Art (60 mins.). 

J. Russell Sale. December 2, 4, 

and 20 at 2:00; December 5, 6, 22, 

28, and 29 at :00; December 8 at 

:00 (wb)

Joseph Widener’s Paintings and Tapestries (60 mins.). Philip Leonard. 

December 6, 8, 0, 3, and 5 at :00 

(wb)

Joseph Widener’s Rock Crystal, 

Chinese Porcelains, and Majolica

(60 mins.). Philip Leonard. December 9, , 6, 9, and 2 at 2:00 (wb)

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The Domenichino Affair author Elizabeth Cropper gives a lecture and book 

signing on December 11.
programs

Family Activities

For details: (202) 789-3030 or 

www.nga.gov/programs/family.htm

Children must be accompanied by 

an adult 

Family Weekend

For details: (202) 842-6254 / East 

Building (eb) 

Explore Sculpture

November 5 and 6 

Investigate modern and contemporary sculpture by Alexander Calder, 

Louise Bourgeois, Andy Goldsworthy, Henry Moore, Martin Puryear, 

Richard Serra, David Smith, and 

Rachel Whiteread. Create your own 

sculpture to take home! See films, 

watch a performance, and get family 

activity sheets. 

Family Workshop

Required online registration / West 

Building Rotunda (wb) / Ages 8 – 12

Feathered Friends 

November 3 and December 4

:00 – 3:00 

See owls, pelicans, hummingbirds, 

egrets, and other fascinating birds! 

Both children and adults will learn 

drawing and watercolor techniques 

while exploring the pictures of John 

James Audubon and other American naturalists. Led by artist and 

educator Clare Grizzard. 

Family Workshops are made 

possible by the generous support of 

ChoicePoint Government Services.

Stories in Art

West Building Rotunda (wb) / Ages 4 – 7

The Empty Pot

By Demi

November 20 at :30 and :00 

This Chinese folktale tells the story 

of a young boy named Ping who 

loves flowers and impresses the 

emperor with his honesty. After 

reading the story, participants will 

look at vases in the Chinese porcelain collection and make their own 

pots to take home. 

The Snowy Day

By Ezra Jack Keats

December  at :30 and :00

Listen to this story about a young 

boy who can’t wait to jump in his 

snowsuit and run out to explore the 

first snowfall. After looking at winter landscape paintings, participants 

will create a snowy work of art. 

Family and Youth Programs are 

made possible in part by the generosity of the Prince Charitable Trusts.

Children’s Film Program

First-come, first-seated / www.nga.

gov/programs/filmchild.htm

Alexander Calder On-screen 

November 5 at 0:30 – 3:30; 

November 6 at :30 – 4:30 

Ages 7 and up

East Building Small Auditorium 

(ebsa)

Learn about American artist Alexander Calder through two films 

about his work. Calder’s Circus

(Carlos Vilardebo, 96, 9 mins.) 

shows Calder acting as ringmaster 

for the miniature circus he created 

in Paris, moving and working the 

tiny wire performers to walk tightropes, dance, lift weights, and do 

acrobatics. Mobile, by Alexander 

Calder (National Gallery of Art, 

980, 24 mins.) follows his journey 

with architect I. M. Pei, artist/engineer Paul Matisse, and museum 

officials as they face the challenge 

of creating the large, technically 

complex mobile for the National 

Gallery’s East Building. 

Calder’s Circus will be shown on 

Saturday at :00, 2:00, :00, 2:00, 

and 3:00, and Sunday at 2:00, :00, 

2:00, 3:00, and 4:00. Mobile will be 

shown on Saturday at 0:30, :30, 

2:30, :30, and 2:30, and Sunday at 

:30, 2:30, :30, 2:30, and 3:30.

Bambi

(David Hand, U.S., 942, 70 mins.)

December 3 at 0:30 

December 4 at :30

Ages 5 and up

East Building Auditorium (eba)

This Disney classic follows a young 

deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild 

after his mother is shot by hunters. 

With friends like the playful rabbit 

Thumper and the bashful skunk 

Flower to help him through struggles, Bambi triumphs. An endearing animal tale about the beauty 

of nature, birth, love, and death, 

Bambi is a piece of film history: 

it was a first for animators to create 

animals that not only moved and 

looked realistic, but also achieved 

humanistic expressions at the 

same time.

The Children’s Film Program is 

made possible by the generous support 

of washingtonpost.com.

Film Programs

For details: www.nga.gov/programs/

film.htm

Rivers and Tides: 

Andy Goldsworthy 

Working with Time

Andy Goldsworthy’s evanescent 

sculptures with natural materials 

reflect the character of their local 

settings. His site-specific Roof is 

now on view in the East Building 

of the National Gallery. (Thomas 

Riedelsheimer, 2000, 90 mins.)

A Model for Matisse: The 

Chapel of the Rosary at Vence

The warm and relatively unknown 

relationship between Henri Matisse 

and Monique Bourgeois (Sister 

Jacques-Marie), initially the artist’s 

nurse who became his model, and, 

eventually, a Dominican nun, is the 

subject of this documentary based 

entirely on an interview with Sister 

Jacques-Marie, who was instrumental in procuring for Matisse a 

commission for one of his late masterworks, the Chapel at Vence. 

I Am Cuba

A new 35mm restored print of one 

of the great Soviet classics, I Am 

Cuba (964) — with lush black-andwhite tableaux of street life and 

revolutionary awakenings in 

Havana set against the “good life” 

in clubs and resorts — features 

Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poetic script 

and Mikhail Kalatozov’s brilliant 

direction. On the tenth anniversary 

of its initial U.S. release, a restored 

print of I Am Cuba with new subtitles and remastered Spanish 

soundtrack bestows new life on a 

celebrated classic. 

Winslow Homer: The Nature 

of the Artist

This portrait, produced by the 

National Gallery of Art and featuring Homer scholar John Wilmerding, probes the artist’s wide-ranging subject matter and technique. 

Presented in conjunction with the 

exhibition Winslow Homer in the 

National Gallery of Art.

Cine Chileno: Forty Years of 

Films from Chile

During the past forty years the cinema of Chile has developed from 

a relatively basic enterprise into a 

mature, elegant art form influenced 

as much by documentary tradition 

as by fiction or drama. Chile’s 

celebrated directors, such as Aldo 

Francia, Miguel Littin, Raúl Ruiz, 

Patricio Guzmán, and Silvio Caiozzi 

have all been influenced by the 

nonfiction narrative. Several of them 

continue to work in exile; others 

have remained in Chile. This series 

presents twelve films, a sampling 

of the work that has been produced, 

sometimes under difficult circumstances, since the late 960s. 

On November 9, Patricio 

Guzmán will be present to introduce the Washington premiere of 

his new film Salvador Allende.

Other People’s Pictures

Nine passionate collectors chat 

about their motives for collecting 

vintage snapshots, revealing an 

understanding that, no matter what 

their origins, these photographs 

share significant information about 

human nature, history, and the 

remarkable similarities in everyone’s past. Presented in conjunction 

with the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: 

The Brown Sisters. 

Risk and Reinvention —

the Films of Louis Malle

The National Gallery joins the 

American Film Institute and the 

Embassy of France in presenting a 

complete retrospective of the works 

of acclaimed French director Louis 

Malle (932 – 995) on the tenth 

anniversary of his death. 

Apprenticing first as a cinematographer with Jacques Cousteau 

and later as assistant to Robert 

Bresson in the 950s, Malle attempted his own first feature, Ascenseur 

pour l’échafaud, in 957. The theme 

of reinvention became his trademark. Nine films, including Malle’s 

documentaries, will be shown in 

November and December.

Gallery Concerts

West Building, West Garden Court 

(wgc) or East Building Auditorium 

(eba) at 6:30 / First-come, first-seated 

beginning at 6:00 / Entry at Sixth 

Street until 6:30 / For details: (202) 

842-6941 or www.nga.gov/programs/

music.htm

November 6: National Gallery 

Vocal Arts Ensemble, Gregorian 

chant, laude, and music by 

Palestrina; Presented in honor of 

Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian 

Manuscripts from the J. Paul Getty 

Museum

November 3: Håvard Gimse, 

pianist; Music by Haydn, Franck, 

Chopin, and Norwegian composers

November 20: Adkins-Newman 

Duo: Elizabeth Adkins, violinist, 

and Edward Newman, pianist; 

Music by Stravinsky, Falla, Rosza, 

and Franck

November 27: Awadagin Pratt, 

pianist; Music by Haydn, 

Beethoven, Chopin, and other 

composers

December 4: Geir Draugsvoll, 

accordionist; Music by Mozart, 

Grieg, Bach, and Nørgård; 

Presented in conjunction with the 

Norwegian Christmas Festival

December : Pacifica String 

Quartet; Music by Beethoven, 

Janaček, and Mendelssohn

December 8: Christmas Concert: 

Suspicious Cheese Lords, Renaissance and baroque music of the 

season for men’s voices

December 25: No concert

Holiday Caroling 

in the Rotunda

Caroling in the seasonally decorated West Building Rotunda 

has become a favorite family activity of the holiday season at the Gallery. Guest choirs lead afternoon 

sing-along caroling at :30 and 

2:30 on December 0, , 7, and 

8. Singers and listeners of all ages 

are welcome.

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Alexander Calder, The Circus (detail), 

1932, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. 

Perls. © 2000 Estate of Alexander 

Calder/Artists Rights Society (ARS), 

New York
Gallery Shops

Holiday Shop

It’s never too early to start shopping 

for the upcoming holidays. The 

Holiday Shop features an extensive 

assortment of handsome 2006 calendars, distinctive ornaments, and 

unique greeting cards based on this 

year’s traditional U.S. Postal Service holiday stamp, featuring the 

Gallery’s painting Madonna and 

Child (43) by Lorenzo Monaco.

West Building, Ground Floor

Stylish personal accessories, artinspired items for the home, and 

framed and unframed reproductions of famous works of art in 

many sizes and formats including 

posters, postcards, and stationery 

are available at this location.

Concourse Bookstore

Gallery exhibition catalogues, 

collection guides, and other publications complement this shop’s 

extensive holdings of books, videos, 

and DVDs on art, design, architecture, and photography.

Concourse Children’s Shop 

Books, games, toys, and puzzles to 

delight the young and young at 

heart.

Ordering Information

To order from the Gallery Shops, 

call (202) 842-6002 or (800) 

697-9350; fax (202) 789-3047; or 

e-mail mailorder@nga.gov. You 

may also visit the shops online 

at www.nga.gov/shop.

Restaurants

www.nga.gov/ginfo/cafes.htm 

Terrace Café

East Building, Upper Level

Beginning November 24, enjoy 

a light fare menu of salads, sandwiches, and desserts in the Terrace 

Café overlooking the atrium and 

the National Mall.

November 24 – 27, :00 – 4:00

December 26 – 30, :00 – 4:00

$9.95 (adults)

$9.95 (children 0 and under)

Cascade Café/Espresso

& Gelato Bar

East Building, Concourse

Cascade Café

Monday – Saturday, :00 – 3:00

Sunday, :00 – 4:00

The Cascade Café, with a view 

of the waterfall, offers coffee and 

pastries beginning at :00, followed by soups, salads, specialty 

entrées, wood-fired pizzas, sandwiches, sushi, and freshly baked 

desserts. 

Espresso & Gelato Bar

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – 4:30

Sunday, :00 – 5:30

A full espresso bar offers homemade gelato, panini, and sweets.

Garden Café

West Building, Ground Floor

The Garden Café provides a serene 

spot for lunching on traditional 

American fare à la carte or from 

the buffet.

.

Monday – Saturday, :30 – 3:00

Sunday, 2:00 – 4:00 

2:00 – 6:00 (during concert season)

Pavilion Café

Sculpture Garden

With a view of the Sculpture Garden, the Pavilion Café offers pizzas, 

sandwiches, salads, desserts, and 

full beverage service. 

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – 4:00

Sunday, :00 – 5:00

Extended hours 

(beginning mid-November)

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – 9:00

Sunday, :00 – 8:00

information

Ice-Skating Rink

The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ice-skating rink is 

open mid-November through midMarch, weather permitting. Visit 

www.nga.gov/ginfo/skating.htm for 

more details.

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – :00

Sunday, :00 – 9:00

Admission

$7 (adults)

$6 (children 2 and under, students 

with ID, seniors age 50 and over)

Skate rental is $3.

Season pass is $95.

Gallery Information

Admission

Admission to the Gallery, its Sculpture Garden, and its activities is 

free, except as noted.

Security Check

Visitors are asked to present all 

bags for inspection as they enter 

the Gallery. Backpacks and parcels 

must be left in the checkrooms. 

No parcels larger than 7 x 26 

inches are accepted in the checkrooms. Suitcases are permitted 

but must be x-rayed at the East or 

West Building entrances on Fourth 

Street before being accepted in 

the checkrooms.

The Collection

The National Gallery of Art, one 

of the world’s preeminent museums, 

was created for the people of the 

United States of America by a joint 

resolution of Congress accepting 

the gift of financier, public servant, 

and art collector Andrew W. Mellon 

in 937. European and American 

paintings, sculpture, works on 

paper, photographs, and decorative 

arts are displayed in the collection 

galleries and Sculpture Garden. 

Temporary exhibitions of art from 

countries and cultures throughout 

the world are presented on a regular 

basis.

Works of art on paper and photographs that are not on view may be 

seen by appointment on weekdays; 

call (202) 842-6380 for prints and 

drawings or (202) 842-644 for 

photographs. 

Library

library.nga.gov

The Gallery’s library collection of 

more than 330,000 books and periodicals on the history, theory, and 

criticism of art and architecture 

emphasizes Western art from the 

Middle Ages to the present, and 

American art from the colonial era 

to the present. Adult researchers may 

gain access to the library by calling 

(202) 842-65. The library is closed 

weekends and all federal holidays.

Location

The Gallery is located on Constitution Avenue between Third and 

Ninth Streets NW. Nearby Metrorail stations are located at Judiciary 

Square (red line), Archives/Navy 

Memorial (yellow and green lines), 

and Smithsonian (blue and orange 

lines). Metrobus stops are located 

on Fourth Street, Seventh Street, 

and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Hours

Gallery

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – 5:00

Sunday, :00 – 6:00

Sculpture Garden 

Monday – Saturday, 0:00 – 5:00

Sunday, :00 – 6:00

Exhibition and 

General Information

Call (202) 737-425 or visit the 

Web site at www.nga.gov. Call (202) 

842-676 for the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD).

Calendar

To access the calendar on the 

Web, go to www.nga.gov/ginfo/

calendar.htm.

Call (202) 842-6662 or e-mail 

calendar@nga.gov to receive this 

free bimonthly calendar of events 

by mail.

Group Tours

Free one-hour tours for groups 

of twenty or more adults may be 

booked three weeks to four months 

in advance. Call (202) 842-6247.

Accessibility

Ramps for wheelchairs and strollers are located at the Sixth Street 

entrance to the West Building 

on Constitution Avenue NW and 

at the Fourth Street entrance 

to the East Building. Wheelchairs 

and strollers are available at all 

entrances. For information about 

access to public areas and galleries, 

refer to the Map and Visitor’s Guide 

for the East and West Buildings at 

the Art Information Desks. Limited 

parking is available in front of the 

East Building for vehicles displaying the international symbol 

of accessibility (). The Sculpture 

Garden is accessible to those with 

disabilities. Call (202) 842-6690.

Assistive listening devices are available on a free loan basis. For East 

Building Auditorium programming, visit the building’s Art Information Desk. For West Building 

Lecture Hall programming, visit 

the Constitution Avenue entrance 

Art Information Desk.

Sign language interpretation is 

available with three weeks’ notice. 

Call (202) 842-6247 or TDD (202) 

842-676.

A wheelchair-accessible TDD has 

been installed at the public telephone adjacent to the stamp 

machine near the sales shop on 

the Concourse.

Over the next several years, 

sections of the collection of the 

National Gallery of Art will close 

for renovation. Check at the Art 

Information Desks for additional 

details or visit www.nga.gov/ginfo/

renovation.htm.

© 2005 Board of Trustees, National 

Gallery of Art, Washington

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