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In the Library: Marks of Ownership
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
From the Library: The Fleeting Structures of Early Modern Europe
Modern Lab: Material Interventions
Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800)
I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
Larger Than Life: Ter Brugghen's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene
Collections Frozen in Time: Selections from the National Gallery of Art Library
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit
The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection: 1525–1835
The Declaration of Independence: The Stone Copy
Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome: The Capitoline Venus
A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre"
Publishing Modernism: The Bauhaus in Print
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
The Solemnity of Shadows: Juan Laurent's Vision of Spain
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700
Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900
American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy
The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875
Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Reading the Modern Photography Book: Changing Perceptions
Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art
Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
Recent Acquisitions: The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books
Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
Edouard Manet's "Ragpicker" from the Norton Simon Foundation
Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction
The Beffi Triptych: Preserving Abruzzo's Cultural Heritage
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle
An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works
Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns
Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes
Bronze and Boxwood: Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection
Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
The Lure and Lore of Antiquity: J. Carter Brown Memorial Exhibition
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965
Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
Undisturbed by Color: Art and the Early Photographic Album
States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns
Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art
Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper 1450–1700
Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
Rembrandt's "Titus" from the Norton Simon Museum
Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Mellon at the National Gallery of Art
Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945
Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence
Tabernacle Frames from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris
Photographic Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections
The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art
Gauguin Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection: Selections from Breton Sketchbook No. 16
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856–1909)
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida
The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938–1958
Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings
Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain
Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
Jan De Bray and the Classical Tradition
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
Roy Lichtenstein: A New Gift of Drawings
Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits"
Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea
Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life
Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America"
Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters
Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
"That the Freedom of the Human Spirit Shall Go On" World War II and the National Gallery of Art
Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions
All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 - 1860
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938
Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment
The East Building: Celebrating 25 Years
Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte
Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
Mark Rothko: The Mural ProjectsColorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici
An American Vision, Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
Drawing on America's Past, Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Ginevra de Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women
Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
Gerrit Dou (1613-1675): Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt
The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
The Impressionists at Argenteuil
Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century
American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection
From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art
Photographs from the Collection
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ: Saints and Sinners in Baroque Painting
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China
The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Johannes Vermeer's The Art of Painting
Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press
Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment