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See also area map, public transportation, and parking. The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, is bounded by Constitution Avenue and Madison Drive and by 7th and 9th Streets NW. See also area map, location, and hours. Location Address 4th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20565 Mailing Address 2000B South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785 Exhibition and General Information For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176. Admission is always free. Please check the current exhibition page for pass information. Visitor Guides What to See in an Hour? West Building (PDF 176k) (Download Acrobat Reader) What to See in an Hour? East Building (PDF 464k) (Download Acrobat Reader) Plan your visit to the National Gallery with these maps of must-see works. Calendars of Events Find out what's happening this month at the National Gallery of Art. 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Today in Gallery History On October 31, 1982, Braque: The Papiers Collés opened at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georges Braque, who was the originator of modern collage. 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Collection by Expanded Criteria Search the Collection by Provenance Search the Collection by Accession Number Search the Collection by Index of Artists 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 Sculpture Galleries 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 Dolls Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest Furniture Metalwork Pennsylvania German Folk Art Pottery Shaker Crafts Textiles Toys Woodcarving Photographs 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 In-Depth Studies Art Nouveau, 1890–1914 Architecture Tours West Building East Building Sculpture Garden Foreign Language Guides Gallery Guides in English (PDF) Gallery Guides in French (PDF) Gallery Guides in German (PDF) Gallery Guides in Italian (PDF) Gallery Guides in Spanish (PDF) Exhibitions Current Exhibitions The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson J.M.W. Turner British Picturesque Landscapes Edward Hopper Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Mellon at the National Gallery of Art Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper 1450–1700 Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings Homer, Eakins, and Bellows: American Paintings, 1870–1925, from the National Gallery of Art's Permanent Collection States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns Undisturbed by Color: Art and the Early Photographic Album 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 National Gallery Sculpture Garden Upcoming Exhibitions The Baroque Woodcut Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections 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 Exhibitions on Tour Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945 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 Past Exhibitions: Online Resources (1997–2007) 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 Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art Rembrandt's "Titus" from the Norton Simon 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 Online Tours Education NGA Classroom: Online Resources for Teachers and Students NGA Loan Program: Teaching Packets, DVDS, Videos, and Other Media School Tours High School Programs Family Activities Teacher Workshops Teacher Institute Children's Films Internships Summer Internships Academic Year Graduate Lecturers Volunteer Fellowships Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Conservation Volunteer Opportunities Docents Art Information Library High School NGA KIDS Adventures with Art (Activities & Projects) George Catlin's Paintings of Native Americans John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark" Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon in His Study" Martin Johnson Heade's "Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds" Leonardo da Vinci's "Ginevra de' Benci" Rogier van der Weyden's "Saint George and the Dragon" Frank Stella's "Jarama II" James Jacques Joseph Tissot's "Hide and Seek" Lizzy & Gordon Visit the Sculpture Garden Wassily Kandinsky's "Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)" The Art Zone (Download Shockwave) 3-D Twirler Collage Machine Collage Machine II Cubits Diamonds Dutch Dollhouse Flow Jungle Mobile Paintbox Pixel Face River Run SwatchBox Wallovers Calender of Events for Kids Films for Children Family Workshops Stories in Art Family Guides (Download Acrobat Reader) The Art of Romare Bearden (PDF 900k) Édouard Vuillard (PDF 432k) The Quest for Immortality: The Art of Ancient Egypt (PDF 684k) Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (PDF 684k) Inside Scoop (Download Acrobat Reader) Andrea del Castagno (PDF 260k) Andy Goldsworthy (PDF 296k) Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Shaw Memorial (PDF 1.5MB) Canaletto (PDF 196k) Dan Flavin (PDF 128k) Diego Rivera (PDF 1.5MB) Dutch Still Life (PDF 176k) Edgar Degas (PDF 388k) Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun (PDF 148k) Frank Stella (PDF 348k) French Fauvism (PDF 240k) Georgia O'Keeffe (PDF 124k) Gilbert Stuart (PDF 516k) Hendrick Avercamp (PDF 144k) John Constable (PDF 192k) John Singleton Copley (PDF 1.5MB) J.M.W. 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