Still Lifes of the Golden Age: Northern European Paintings from the Heinz Family Collection

May 14-September 10, 1989

Overview: 44 paintings were shown from the collection of Senator and Mrs. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. The exhibition included rare Dutch, Flemish, and German still lifes from the late 16th to the early 18th century, by artists such as Jan Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Claesz., and others. The National Gallery organized the exhibition.

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting at the National Gallery, and Peter C. Sutton and Theodore E. Stebbins of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, selected the paintings in consultation with the Heinz family. Peter Tillou and Ingvar Bergström, both authorities on northern European still lifes, were consultants, as well as Charles S. Moffett, senior curator and curator of modern painting at the National Gallery. Exhibition curators were Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.; Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, professor emerita of the history of landscape architecture, Harvard University; and Lawrence O. Goedde, associate professor of art history, University of Virginia.

Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser designed the exhibition, and Gordon Anson designed the lighting.

Attendance: 149,397 (120 days)

Location: East Building, Mezzanine, Northwest

Catalogue: Still Lifes of the Golden Age: Northern European Paintings from the Heinz Family Collection, edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989.

Other venue:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

October 4-December 31, 1989

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