Release Date: December 6, 1996
"Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906"
Opens at National Gallery of Art, Washington March 30 - July 27, 1997
Travels to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fall 1997
Release Date: May 15, 1997
Picasso Electronic Fieldtrip a First
for National Gallery of Art
Release Date: (News Release)
National Gallery Presents Captivating
Work of Dutch Draftsman "M.C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute," October 26,
1997 - April 26, 1998
Release Date: (News Release)
National Gallery of Art Presents First
U.S. Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Master Lorenzo Lotto
Release Date: (News Release)
National Gallery Acquires Missing Rembrandt
Copperplate Found on Back of Painting
Release Date: (News Release)
One of America's Greatest Sculptures,
"Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts
Fifty-Fourth Regiment," on View in Washington, 21 September 1997
Release Date: (News Release)
National Gallery of Art Showcases Treasured
Works on Paper in "Six Centuries / Six Artists," February 2 - May 4, 1997
Release Date: (News Release)
First Retrospective of Landscapes by
Thomas Moran at the National Gallery of Art, September 28, 1997; includes
Yellowstone Images that Inspired U.S. Congress to Establish First National
Park
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