Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
February 1–May 3, 2009

Looking In: Robert Frank’s "The Americans"
January 18 through April 26, 2009

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
October 26, 2008 through January 11, 2009

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:
Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples
October 19, 2008 through March 22, 2009

Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz
October 12, 2008 through March 15, 2009

George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
September 14, 2008 through January 4, 2009

Martin Puryear
June 22 through September 28, 2008

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
May 25 through September 1, 2008

Afghanistan: Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
May 25 through September 7, 2008

Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints and Illustrated Books
May 4 through November 2, 2008

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
March 2 through June 8, 2008

Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
February 3 through May 4, 2008

Bronze and Boxwood: Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith
January 27 through May 4, 2008

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
October 28, 2007 through March 30, 2008

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
October 7 through December 31, 2007

J.M.W. Turner
October 1, 2007 through January 6, 2008

The Baroque Woodcut
September 27, 2007 through March 30, 2008

Edward Hopper
September 16, 2007 through January 21, 2008

Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence
July 1 through October 8, 2007

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
June 10 through September 3, 2007

Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum
May 27 through August 12, 2007

Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
May 6 through September 16, 2007

Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450–1700
May 6 through September 16, 2007

Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art
March 25 through August 5, 2007

States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns
March 11 through September 28, 2007

Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
February 11 through May 6, 2007

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
January 28 through April 29, 2007

Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawing
November 19, 2006 through March 18, 2007

The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain
November 19, 2006 through March 18, 2007

Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
November 12, 2006 through May 27, 2007

Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings
October 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007

The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938-1958
September 17, 2006 through January 15, 2007

Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida
August 24 through November 12, 2006

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856-1909)
August 6, 2006 through January 28, 2007

Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
July 16 through October 15, 2006

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
June 18 through September 17, 2006

Charles Sheeler: Across Media
May 7 through August 27, 2006

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections
April 30 through November 26, 2006

The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art
April 30 through October 1, 2006

Photographic Discoveries: Recent Acquisitions
March 2 through July 30, 2006

Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris
February 26 through May 21, 2006

Dada
February 19 through May 14, 2006

Cézanne in Provence
January 29 through May 7, 2006

Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters
November 13, 2005 through February 20, 2006

J.M.W. Turner
September 25, 2005 through December 31, 2006

Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum
September 25, 2005 through January 2, 2006

Audubon’s Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America"
September 25, 2005 through March 26, 2006

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life
September 18 through December 31, 2005

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele
September 18, 2005 through February 26, 2006

The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea
September 4, 2005 through February 20, 2006

Origins of European Printmaking: 15th Century Woodcuts and Their Public
September 4 through November 27, 2005

Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art
July 3, 2005 through February 26, 2006

Irving Penn: Platinum Prints
June 19 through October 2, 2005

Gilbert Stuart
March 27 through July 31, 2005

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
March 20 through June 12, 2005

Jan de Bray and the Classical Tradition
March 13 through August 14, 2005

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(R), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
February 13 through May 30, 2005

André Kertész
February 6 through May 15, 2005

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
January 30 through May 1, 2005

Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection
December 12, 2004 through May 22, 2005

Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
November 14, 2004 through June 5, 2005

Gerard ter Borch
November 7, 2004 through January 30, 2005

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 - 1860
October 17, 2004 through January 2, 2006

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
October 3, 2004 through January 9, 2005

Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 18, 2004 through February 6, 2005

Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
June 27 through September 26, 2004

American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
May 9, 2004 through January 30, 2005

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
April 4 through July 25, 2004

The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
April 4 through July 25, 2004

Drawings of Jim Dine
March 21 through August 1, 2004

Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
February 13 through March 21, 2004

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853
November 23, 2003 through February 29, 2004

Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
October 26, 2003 through February 16, 2004

The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
October 12, 2003 through January 11, 2004

Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
October 1, 2003 through January 19, 2004

A Painter's Mind: Selections from the Library of Romare Bearden
September 14, 2003 through April 24, 2005

The Art of Romare Bearden
September 14, 2003 through January 4, 2004

Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte
June 29 through September 28, 2003

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment
May 4 through September 7, 2003

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
April 13 through July 13, 2003

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938
March 2 through June 1, 2003

Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788
February 9 through May 11, 2003

Édouard Vuillard
January 19 through April 20, 2003

Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
November 27, 2002 through March 2, 2003

Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
October 13, 2002 through March 2, 2003

Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
September 29, 2002 through January 5, 2003

The Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Bronzes
September 29, 2002 through February 17, 2003

An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith
September 22, 2002 through February 9, 2003

Anne Vallayer-Coster
June 30 through September 22, 2002

The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
June 30 through October 14, 2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
June 2 through September 2, 2002

An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum
May 5 through October 6, 2002

Goya: Images of Women
March 10 through June 2, 2002

The Flowering of Florence
March 3 through May 27, 2002

Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
February 3 through June 23, 2002

A Century of Drawing
November 18, 2001 through April 7, 2002

Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
November 4, 2001 through January 21, 2002

Henry Moore
October 21, 2001 through January 27, 2002

Aelbert Cuyp
October 7, 2001 through January 13, 2002

Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women
September 30, 2001 through January 6, 2002

The Unfinished Print
June 3 through October 7, 2001

Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades
June 3 through October 7, 2001

Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
May 10 through September 3, 2001

Cy Twombly: The Sculpture
May 6 through July 29, 2001

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
January 28 through April 22, 2001

Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s
October 22, 2000 through February 25, 2001

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century
October 1, 2000 through February 4, 2001

Small Northern European Portraits from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
September 17 through December 21, 2000

The Impressionists at Argenteuil
May 28 through December 3, 2000

Raphael and His Circle
May 14, 2000 through January 7, 2001

Gerrit Dou (1613-1675): Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt
April 16, 2000 through February 25, 2001

O'Keeffe on Paper
April 9 through October 29, 2000

Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
April 6, 2000 through July 8, 2001

Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection
March 5 through November 12, 2000

Vermeer's The Art of Painting
November 24, 1999 through February 6, 2000

An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
November 7, 1999 through February 27, 2000

From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
October 24, 1999 through January 9, 2000

Brassaï: The Eye of Paris
October 17, 1999 through January 16, 2000

Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
October 3, 1999 through January 9, 2000

Martin Johnson Heade
September 29, 1999 through September 1, 2000

The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
September 26, 1999 through January 9, 2000

The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China
September 19, 1999 through January 2, 2000

The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750
July 1, 1999 through May 3, 2001

Mary Cassatt
June 6 through September 6, 1999

Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ
May 30 through July 18, 1999

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
May 23 through August 22, 1999

Photographs from the Collection
April 25 through July 5, 1999

John Singer Sargent
February 21 through May 31, 1999

Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
February 20, 1999 through May 7, 2000

Northern Art
January 31 through May 31, 1999

American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection
January 24 through May 9, 1999

Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
November 15, 1998 through February 15, 1999

Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages
November 8, 1998 through January 31, 1999

Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages
November 8, 1998 through January 31, 1999

Bernini's Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
October 11, 1998 through January 18, 1999

Van Gogh's Van Goghs
October 4, 1998 through January 3, 1999

Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
June 24 through September 20, 1998

Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris,1887-1900
June 7 through September 7, 1998

Mark Rothko
May 3 through August 16, 1998

Alexander Calder: 1898-1976
March 29 through July 12, 1998

A Design for the National Gallery of Art: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of I.M. Pei's East Building
March 27 through October 11, 1998

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
November 2, 1997 through March 1, 1998

M.C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute
October 26, 1997 through April 26, 1998

Thomas Moran
September 28, 1997 through January 11, 1998

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
September 21, 1997 through December 14, 1998

Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
March 30 - July 27, 1997

Six Centuries/Six Artists
February 2 through May 4, 1997

 

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