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EXHIBITING
In the Tower: Mel Bochner Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
included eighty works, the majority of which came from
the Gallery’s rich holdings of the artist’s prints and drawings.
Organized according to recurrent themes in his
work—biblical journeys, the memory of the antique, the
Flight into Egypt, religious nocturnes, and fantastic physiognomy—the
exhibition also explored his innovations in
technique. Castiglione’s works and comparative examples
were shown side by side, underscoring the serial aspect of
his creativity.
Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam comprises
two long-term loans from the Amsterdam Museum and
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and features two larger-than-
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life renderings of the Governors of the Kloveniersdoelen
by Govaert Flink and Bartholomeus van der Helst. These
exceptional works, on view adjacent to the Dutch portrait
galleries in the West Building for five years, immortalize
the civic pride of the men who governed the
Kloveniersdoelen, the building where one of Amsterdam’s
three militia companies held its meetings. The exhibition
was funded by a generous gift from the Hata Foundation,
and the fully illustrated brochure was funded through the
generosity of Mrs. Henry H. Weldon.
This year, the Gallery displayed one of Japan’s most celebrated
cultural treasures, Colorful Realm of Living Beings
by Itō Jakuchū, in its entirety for the first time outside of