Release Date: June 22, 2004

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OFFERS
SUMMER LECTURE SERIES ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING

In conjunction with the exhibition Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, on view June 27 through September 26, 2004, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is offering an eight-part series of lectures on the theme of landscape. Ranging in time from antiquity to the 20th century, but concentrating on Gifford’s era of the 19th century, the works discussed will reveal the continuing significance of the natural world to western civilization. Philosophy, literature, religion, and science are all forces shaping the artist’s imagination in interpreting this fascinating subject.

Lectures are given in the East Building Auditorium on Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

All lectures are free and open to the public.

July 11
Representing the Landscape in the Ancient World
Faya Causey, head, academic programs

July 18
Storms and Shipwrecks in the National Gallery of Art
J. Russell Sale, staff lecturer

July 25
The British Picturesque Landscape
Philip Leonard, staff lecturer

August 1
Modern Artists and the French Riviera
Diane Arkin, staff lecturer and adult docent coordinator

August 8
Caspar David Friedrich, Adolf von Menzel, and Arnold Böcklin:
Landscape as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century German Painting
Christopher With, art information coordinating curator

August 15
The Urban Landscape: Prints of Paris in the Impressionist Era
Eric Denker, staff lecturer

August 22
Approaches to the American Landscape
Alan Fern, director emeritus, National Portrait Gallery

August 29
"Sur le motif": The Landscapes of Paul Cézanne
Sally Shelburne, staff lecturer

General Information

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov.

Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering the East and West Buildings. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 x 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms.

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National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, MD 20785
phone: (202) 842-6353 e-mail: pressinfo@nga.gov

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OFFERS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OFFERS
SUMMER LECTURE SERIES ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING