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- American Painting
Selected Tours- American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
- American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
- Mary Cassatt: Selected Paintings
- John Singleton Copley
- Portraits of the Founding Benefactors
- Gilbert Stuart
- Gilbert Stuart Paints the First Five Presidents
- Selected African American Artists
- Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner: Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s
In-Depth Studies- American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
- Exploring Themes in American Art
- American Impressionism and Realism
- John Singleton Copley: Watson and the Shark
- William Harnett: Trompe l'Oeil
- Jasper Johns: Perilous Night
- Thomas Moran
- Jackson Pollock: Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist)
- Edward Ruscha: Lisp
- Frederic Remington
- Mark Rothko
- Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)
Streaming Slideshow- Winslow Homer: Right and Left (Download RealPlayer)
- British Painting
Selected Tours- British Conversation Pieces and Portraits of the 1700s
- Constable and Turner: British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
- Britain's Royal Academy of Art in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
- British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s
- British and American History Paintings of the 1700s
- Dutch and Flemish Painting 17th Century
Selected Tours- Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s
- Dutch Still Lifes and Landscapes of the 1600s
- Frans Hals
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens
- Sir Anthony van Dyck
- Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s
In-Depth Studies- Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance
- Johannes Verspronck: Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer
- French and Italian Painting 17th Century
Selected Tours- Seventeenth-Century French Painting
- The Emergence of New Genres
In-Depth Studies- Valentin de Boulogne: Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats)
- French and Italian Painting 18th Century
Selected Tours- 18th-Century France: Boucher and Fragonard
- 18th-Century France: Chardin and Portraiture
- 18th-Century France: The Rococo and Watteau
- 18th- and 19th-Century France: Neoclassicism
In-Depth Studies- Claude Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck
- French Painting 19th Century
Selected Tours- Manet and His Influence
- The Beginnings of Impressionist Landscape
- Impressionism
- Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne
- Paul Gauguin
- Mary Cassatt, Auguste Renoir
- Mary Cassatt: Selected Paintings
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Romantics and Realists
In-Depth Studies- Edgar Degas: The Dance Lesson
- Edouard Manet: The Railway
- Edouard Manet: The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight
- Small French Paintings
Virtual Exhibition Tours- Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Download QuickTime)
- Italian Painting 13th–14th Centuries
Selected Tours- Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and 1300s
- Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries
- Italian Painting 15th Century
Selected Tours- Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries
- The Early Renaissance in Florence
- Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence
- Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance
Streaming Slideshow- Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi: The
Adoration of the Magi
(Download RealPlayer) - Italian Painting 16th Century
Selected Tours- Raphael
- Venice and the North
- Fresco Cycle with the Story of Procris and Cephalus
- The Feast of the Gods
- Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
- Mannerism
- Titian and the Late Renaissance in Venice
- Venetian Painting in the Later 16th Century
In-Depth Studies- Jacopo Bassano: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
- Northern European Painting 15th–16th Centuries
Selected Tours- Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
- 15th- and Early 16th-Century Germany
- Netherlandish and Spanish Altarpieces in the Late 1400s and Early 1500s
- Antwerp in the Early 1500s
- Spanish Painting
Selected Tours- El Greco
- Spanish Painting in the 17th Century
- Francisco de Goya
In-Depth Studies- Pablo Picasso: The Tragedy
- Modern and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Selected Tours- Selections from the 20th-Century Collections
- Selected African American Artists
In-Depth Studies- Alexander Calder: Vertical Constellation with Bomb
- Henri Matisse: The Fauves
- Jasper Johns: Perilous Night
- Pablo Picasso: The Tragedy
- Jackson Pollock: Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist)
- Mark Rothko
- Edward Ruscha: Lisp
- Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)
- Édouard Vuillard: Place Vintimille
Virtual Exhibition Tours- Alexander Calder: 1898–1976 (Download QuickTime)
- European Sculpture 14th–19th Centuries
Selected Tours- Florentine Sculpture of the 15th Century
- Marble Sculpture from France
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- Prints and Drawings
Selected Tours- M.C. Escher: Life and Work
- Works on Paper from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection
- Selections from John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1826–1838)
- Winslow Homer Watercolors: A Survey of Themes and Styles
- Mary Cassatt: Selected Color Prints
- Rembrandt's Late Etchings
In-Depth Studies- Rembrandt van Rijn: Abraham Entertaining the Angels
Virtual Exhibition Tours- Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press (Download QuickTime)
- Index of American Design
Selected Tours- Costumes
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- Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
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Selected Tours- Selected Photographs from the Collection
In-Depth Studies- Julia Margaret Cameron: The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty
- Edward Steichen: Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)
- Decorative Arts
Selected Tours- Chinese Porcelains
- French Renaissance Ceramics
- Italian Cabinet Galleries
- Italian Renaissance Ceramics
- Medieval Metalwork and Enamels
- Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
- Production of French Decorative Arts in the 1700s
- Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s
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- Exhibitions
- Current Exhibitions
- Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
- Documenting Discovery: The Excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
- The Lure and Lore of Antiquity: J. Carter Brown Memorial Exhibition
- Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz
- George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
- Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection
- Permanent Installations
- Sculpture Galleries: Permanent Collection
- Armand Hammer Collection
- Dutch Cabinet Galleries
- Italian Cabinet Galleries
- Shaw Memorial
- Small French Paintings
- Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #65
- Mel Bochner: Theory of Boundries (1969–1970)
- Andy Goldsworthy: Roof
- Alexander Calder Mobile
- Henri Matisse: Cutouts
- Leo Villareal Installation
- National Gallery Sculpture Garden
- Upcoming Exhibitions
- Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
- Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
- Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
- Exhibitions on Tour
- Martin Puryear
- Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
- Richard Misrach: On the Beach
- Virtual Tours of Exhibitions
- Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Alexander Calder: 1898–1976
- Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
- Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press
- Past Exhibition Resources
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Exhibitions: Online Resources (1997–2008)
- 1997
- 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
- 1998
- A Design for the National Gallery of Art: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of I.M.Pei's East Building
- Alexander Calder: 1898–1976
- Degas at the Races
- Mark Rothko
- Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
- Van Gogh's Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Edo: Art in Japan 1615–1868
- 1999
- 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
- Mary Cassatt
- 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: The Art of Painting
- 2000
- Martin Johnson Heade
- Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
- Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
- Gerrit Dou: 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
- Art Nouveau, 1890–1914
- Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s
- 2001
- Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
- Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
- The Unfinished Print
- Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
- Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Ginevra de' Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Henry Moore
- Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
- A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
- 2002
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
- The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici
- Goya: Images of Women
- 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
- 2003
- Édouard Vuillard
- 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
- The Art of Romare Bearden
- Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
- The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
- Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783–1853
- 2004
- Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
- Drawings of Jim Dine
- 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
- Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
- All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860
- Gerard Ter Borch
- Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
- Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection
- 2005
- The Andy Goldworthy Project
- Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
- André Kertész
- Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
- Jan De Bray and the Classical Tradition
- Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
- Gilbert Stuart
- Roy Lichtenstein: A New Gift of Drawings
- Irving Penn: Platinum Prints
- 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
- Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele
- 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
- 2006
- Cézanne in Provence
- Dada
- 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
- Charles Sheeler: Across Media
- Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
- Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856–1909)
- Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
- 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
- 2007
- 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
- Homer, Eakins, and Bellows: American Paintings, 1870–1925, from the National Gallery of Art's Permanent Collection
- 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
- J.M.W. Turner
- Edward Hopper
- The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
- Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
- The Baroque Woodcut
- 2008
- 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
- Max Ernst: Illustrated Books
- Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
- Richard Misrach: On the Beach
- Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
- Martin Puryear
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