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Image: Alfred Jensen, Twelve Events in a Dual Universe, 1978, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2007.35.1Image: Edward Hopper, East Side Interior, 1922, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.71Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Mortlake Terrace, 1827, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.109Image: Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.44
Focus: Exhibitions | Focus: the Collection | Twelve at Twelve | Drawing Salon | Food for Thought
Focus: Exhibitions
Citizens of the Republic: Portraits from the Dutch Golden Age
Molli Kuenstner
January 8, 11, 18, 22, 23, 31 at 12:00PM
February 3 at 12:00PM, 1:00PM
(20 minutes)
LeWitt's Colors: Wall Drawings #65 and #681C
Charles W. Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Williams College
January 14 at 3:00PM
(50 minutes)
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830
Naomi Remes, Wilford W. Scott, Dianne Stephens, or Martha Schloetzer
February 13, 16 at 1:00PM
March 9, 12, 14 at 1:00PM
April 16, 18, 23, 25 at 2:00PM
(60 minutes)
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900
Diane Arkin, Eric Denker, or David Gariff
February 20–22, 26–28 at 12:00PM
March 11–13, 27–29 at 2:00PM
March 23, 24 at 1:00PM
April 2, 3 at 2:00PM
April 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 23 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
Adam Davies
February 20–22, 27, 28 at 1:00PM
March 20–22, 28, 29 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac
Diane Arkin or Eric Denker
February 23–25 at 12:00PM
March 1, 2, 4, 5 at 2:00PM
March 3 at 1:00PM
March 27–30 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
Michelangelo's David-Apollo
Eric Denker
March 1 at 11:00AM
(20 minutes)
Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina
Eric Denker
March 31 at 12:00PM
April 1–4, 9–12, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29, 30 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
Focus: The Collection
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraiture
Eric Denker
January 2, 4, 6, 8 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape
Eric Denker
January 14–17 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
From the Fantastical to the Real: The Shifting Nature of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Adam Davies
January 23–27, 30 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
Images of the Opera
David Gariff
January 24, 25, 30 at 12:00PM
January 29, 31 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
"Richard Wagner" by Alfredo Pina
David Gariff
February 4, 6–8, 12, 14, 19 at 1:00PM
(30 minutes)
Picture This: Old Master Paintings for People with Visual Impairments
February 27 at 1:00PM
March 27 at 1:00PM
April 24 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
"Apollo and Daphne" by Giambattista Tiepolo
Eric Denker
March 4, 7, 8 at 11:00AM
(20 minutes)
"The Fall of Phaeton" by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Faya Causey
March 11, 13, 14 at 11:00AM
(20 minutes)
From the Fantastical to the Real: The Shifting Nature of Landscape Painting in 18th- and 19th-Century France
Adam Davies
April 3, 4, 17–21 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
The Artist as Collector
Gwendolyn Fernandez
April 14, 25–27 at 1:00PM
April 16 at 11:00AM
(50 minutes)
Twelve at Twelve

Everything you absolutely must know about this painting in 12 minutes or less!

Simon Hantaï's "Étude"
Deirdre D. Palmer
January 29 at 12:00PM
February 1, 2 at 12:00PM
(12 minutes)
Robert Seldon Duncanson's "Still Life with Fruit"
Wilford W. Scott
February 7–10 at 12:00PM
(12 minutes)
Drawing Salon

Gather around works of art for sketching and conversation. This series of workshops focuses on works in the collection through observation, drawing, and discussion. Led by practicing artists and museum educators, the program integrates art history and studio art practices.

Free, but space is limited to 35 participants per session. No advance registration; participation is on a first-come, first-served basis with sign-in beginning at 12:30 pm in the West Building East Garden Court and continuing until all spaces are filled. All drawing materials provided. The Drawing Salon is an adult program with a minimum participant age of 16. For more information, contact drawingsalon@nga.gov.

Texture and Shading: Nauman's Hands
December 6, 9 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Parts and Whole: Saint-Gaudens' "Shaw Memorial"
January 10, 13 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Tone and Atmosphere: Hudson River School
February 7, 10 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Line and Space: Calder's Mobiles
March 14, 17 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Composition and Perspective: Canaletto and Panini
April 11, 14 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Food for Thought

Participate in a seminar-style luncheon discussion of art history and related readings followed by a gallery tour of relevant art. Participants may bring their own lunch or purchase it prior to class in the Cascade Café.

Preregistration is required and limited to 25 participants per session.

Registration form
 

Rebuilding Ruins: Landscapes of Decadence and Display
Adam Davies
January 17, 31 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM

John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
David Gariff
April 10, 24 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM