Exhibition News - National Gallery of Art Washington DC

October 07, 2020

The National Gallery of Art, founded as a gift to the nation, serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. Our collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art and showcases some of the triumphs of human creativity. Across 363 days a year, the Gallery offers a full spectrum of special exhibitions and public programs free of charge.

CURRENT EXHIBITION - 

True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870

An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, open-air painting was a core practice for emerging artists in Europe. Intrepid artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Constable, Simon Denis, Jules Coignet, and André Giroux—highly skilled at quickly capturing effects of light and atmosphere—made sometimes arduous journeys to paint their landscapes in person at breathtaking sites, ranging from the Baltic coast and Swiss Alps to the ruins of Rome. Drawing on new scholarship, this exhibition of some 100 oil sketches made outdoors across Europe during that time includes several recently discovered works and explores the variety of inventive ways in which enraptured artists recorded their moments in nature.

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris; and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Passes: Admission is always free, but timed passes are required for entry for the West Building 

Exhibition Dates: Until November 29th 2020

Exhibition Hours: 11am to 4pm daily

Venue: West Building, 6th Street & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20565

Directions - https://www.nga.gov/visit/getting-here.html

Website - https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions.html

Also in Exhibition News

Tate Britain

October 22, 2021

Back in 1897 when Tate Britain opened to the public, it was a single site museum with a collection of British artworks, albeit quite small in size. Since its inception it has continued to go from strength to strength. It now has four different sites and contains 70,000 artworks from both within the United Kingdom and globally. For artlovers living or indeed visiting London it is must see on the cultural tour of London.

Read More

Currier Museum

October 15, 2021

The Currier Museum of Art connects art with diverse audiences, from its neighborhood to international and digital visitors, and embracing regional new museum-goers and under-served communities. We facilitate conversations and experiences around art.

Read More

Seattle Art Museum

October 14, 2021

With three separate locations The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is the main art museum located in downtown Seattle opened in 1991, with the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) be founded in 1994 and located at Volunteer Park, and down at central Seattle waterfront you will find the Olympic Sculpture Park which opened to the public in 2007 .

Read More