Release Date: Release Date: May 17, 1999
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Fact Sheet
Release Date: November 23, 1999
National Gallery of Art Celebrates
the 1999 Holiday Season
Release Date: November 5, 1999
Johannes Vermeer's Extraordinary Masterpiece
"The Art of Painting" Travels from Vienna for Exclusive U.S.
Showing at the National Gallery of Art 24 November 1999 - 6 February 2000
Release Date: November 3, 1999
Exhibition of Masterworks Honors
Paul Mellon's Legacy of Gifts to the Nation; Includes 14 Rare Degas Waxes
Release Date: October 18, 1999
National Gallery of Art Names Jeffrey
Weiss Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Release Date: October 12, 1999
National Gallery of Art Presents "BrassaÏ:
the Eye of Paris," First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Celebrated
Photographer
Release Date: September 24, 1999
National Gallery of Art's Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Announces 1999 - 2000 Appointments
Release Date: September 21, 1999
Powerful and Evocative Master Drawings
by Annibale Carracci on View at National Gallery, 26 September 1999 -
9 January 2000
Release Date: September 20, 1999
Virtuoso Examples of Late Gothic Carving
by Tilman Riemenschneider on View at National Gallery, 3 October 1999
- 9 January 2000
Release Date: September 20, 1999
Related Activities for "Tilman
Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages" National
Gallery of Art, 3 October 1999 - 9 January 2000
Release Date: September 20, 1999
Related Activities for "The
Drawings of Annibale Carracci" National Gallery of Art, 26 September
1999 - 9 January 2000
Release Date: August 26, 1999
"The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology:
Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China" Opens
at the National Gallery of Art, 19 September 1999
Release Date: August 23, 1999
The Bronze Bells of the Marquis Yi
of Zeng Will Ring in Celebration of "The Golden Age of Archaeology"
at National Gallery of Art, 19 September 1999 - 2 January 2000
Release Date: August 18, 1999
Unprecedented Exhibition of Renaissance
Drawings and Watercolors Includes Masterworks by Schongauer, Dürer,
Grünewald, Cranach, and Holbein; at the National Gallery of Art,
24 October L999 - 9 January 2000
Release Date: June 25, 1999
Gifts from Paul Mellon Bring Depth to
National Gallery's French, American, and British Collections
Release Date: June 9, 1999
National Gallery Board Elects David
Maxwell as New Trustee
Release Date: June 8, 1999
National Gallery of Art Releases
New Edition of its Award-Winning 1983 Book, "Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs
& Writings."
Release Date: June 8, 1999
National Gallery of Art Presents
"Stieglitz" the Largest Collection of Stieglitz Photographs
in Two Books, on the Internet, and in an Exhibition
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Comprehensive Survey of Mary Cassatt's
Work on View at National Gallery of Art, 6 June-6 September 1999
Release Date: May 17, 1999
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Opens 23 May
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Collectors Committee Selects Rare
Painting by Edward Steichen, Major Photograph by David Smith, and Works
on Paper for Gallery's 20th-Century Collection
Release Date: May 6, 1999
Caravaggio's "'The Taking of Christ':
Saints and Sinners in Baroque Painting" on View at the National Gallery
of Art, 30 May - 18 July 1999
Release Date: May 3, 1999
Free Jazz Concert on the Mall, May 22,
with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Dukes of Dixieland to Celebrate
New National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Release Date: April 29, 1999
National Gallery of Art's Fifty-Sixth
American Music Festival Begins 2 May
Release Date: March 24, 1999
"Portraits by ingres: Image of
an Epoch" on View at the National Gallery of Art, 23 May - 22 August
1999
Release Date: March 24, 1999
Related Activities for "Portraits
by ingres: Image of an Epoch" at the National Gallery of Art, 23
May - 22 August 1999
Release Date: March 24 1999
The National Gallery of Art's Micro
Gallery is Now Available on Cd-Rom
Release Date: March 22, 1999
"Photographs from the Collection"
at the National Gallery of Art, April 25 - July 5, 1999
Release Date: February 2, 1999
Paul Mellon, Renowned Philanthropist
and Patron of the Arts, Leaves Behind a Great Legacy
Release Date: February 1, 1999
"John Singer Sargent" on
View at the National Gallery of Art, 21 February-31 May 1999
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Related Activities for "John
Singer Sargent" at the National Gallery of Art, 21 February - 31
May 1999
Release Date: January 14, 1999
Exquisite Dutch and Flemish Flower Still
Lifes on View at National Gallery of Art, 31 January-31 May 1999
Release Date: January 8, 1999
Renowned Horowitz Collection of American
Impressionism and Realism on View at National Gallery, 24 January-9 May
1999
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