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During the fiscal year the Gallery produced
eight book-length publications
including seven exhibition catalogues;
labels and wall texts for all fiscal year
2012 exhibitions; brochures formatted for
print, Web, and mobile applications;
printed or online materials for more than
300 education projects; eighty-five online
audio and four video presentations; recurring
event calendars, newsletters, and
periodicals; and several hundred pieces
of Gallery ephemera.
STAFF PUBLICATIONS
>Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance
Bronzes
Eleonora Luciano et al.
(224 pages, 157 color, 6 b/w, hardcover
edition only) Copublished by Paul
Holberton Publishing
>George Bellows
Charles Brock et al.
(348 pages, 270 color, hardcover and
softcover editions) Hardcover edition
copublished by DelMonico • Prestel
>Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower
Paintings by Itō Jakuchū
Yukio Lippit
(240 pages, 200 color, hardcover edition
only) Copublished by the University of
Chicago Press
>Color, Line, Light: French Drawings,
Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix
to Signac
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Andrew
Robison, et al., with a foreword by
Richard Brettell
(180 pages, 150 color, hardcover and
softcover editions) English hardcover
edition copublished by DelMonico •
Prestel; French softcover edition
published by Musée des
impressionnismes, Giverny
>Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and
Drawings, 1475–1540
Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira
(120 pages, 48 color, hardcover edition
only) Copublished by Lund Humphries
>The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished
Collection of Drawings and Watercolors
Margaret Morgan Grasselli and
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
(208 pages, 355 color, hardcover
edition only)
>Shock of the News
Judith Brodie et al.
(168 pages, 102 color, 30 b/w, hardcover
edition only) Copublished by Lund
Humphries
CENTER FOR ADVANCED
STUDY IN THE VISUAL ARTS
(CASVA) PUBLICATIONS
>Orsanmichele and the History and
Preservation of the Civic Monument
Studies in the History of Art, volume 76,
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke fans, and the Twitter feed has more than >Nazi Loot in American Collections
(416 pages, 145 color, 176 b/w,
hardcover edition only) Distributed by
Yale University Press
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Annual report, print and Web versions
15,593 followers with 458 tweets in fiscal
year 2012.
Video Podcasts
>American Originals Now: Jem Cohen:
Curious Visions
>Joan Miró Symposium
Miró’s Studios: Reflecting His Roots,
His References, and His Memories
L’Oeuvre de guerre of Miró:
Constellation Series, Série Barcelona,
and Ceramics, 1940–1945
EXHIBITION BROCHURES >Itō Jakuchū’s “Colorful Realm,” Press
Conference Highlights
“The Farm”: Primitivism and
Transfiguration
(printed, unless otherwise specified) >David McCullough, “Morse at the Louvre”
Perspective, Position, and Politics:
Joan Miró
>Civic Pride: Group Portraits from >Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
Carob Link: A Promenade with Miró
Amsterdam by Henriette de Bruyn Kops
>Deacon Peckham’s “Hobby Horse” by
>“Multiverse,” Leo Villareal Installation
(September 8–December 6, 2008)
>Introduction to a Painting: Edouard
Manet’s “The Railway”
Deborah Chotner (digital, iPad App) >George Bellows, Part 1
>Rings: Five Passions in World Art,
>From the Library: Citizens of the Republic:
Portraits from the Dutch Golden Age by
Molli Kuenstner
>From the Library: The Fleeting Structures
of Early Modern Europe by Yuri Long
>George Bellows, Part 2
>Paris to Fort Lee: French Filmmakers
and the American Industry
>Ann Hamilton
A Preview of the Olympic Exhibition
>Celebrating the Reopening of
the Nineteenth-Century French
Galleries Symposium
Reinstalling the Nineteenth-Century
>In the Tower: Barnett Newman by Harry
Cooper
>I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the
Street, 1938–2010 by Sarah Greenough
(digital)
>The Collecting of African American Art
VIII: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker in
Conversation with Michael Harris
>The Art of Boxing—George Bellows at
the National Gallery of Art, Washington
European Collection at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Art
History in France: The Musée d’Orsay
Renovated
The Nineteenth Century According to
>The Serial Portrait: Photography and
Identity in the Last One Hundred Years by
Ksenya Gurshtein, Sarah Kennel, and
Margaret Doyle (digital)
>Antico in Context by Emily Pegues and
Carla Brenner
>In the Tower: Mel Bochner by the
departments of modern art and
exhibition programs
EXHIBITION FILMS
Music Podcasts
>National Gallery of Art String Quartet,
Wind Quintet, and Piano Trio
>National Gallery of Art New
Music Ensemble
>Nordic Voices
>Music to Honor the Chester Dale Collection
>Music by Jewish Composers
>Music for the Holidays at the
National Gallery
Albert Barnes
>Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
>Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Genius
in Context
>Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the
Louvre” in Focus Symposium
The Forest of the Old Masters: The
Chiaroscuro of American Places
Painting and Technology: Samuel F. B.
Morse and the Visual Transmission
of Intelligence
The Tradition of Paintings-within-
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
Narrated by Ed Harris
(30 minutes, color, captioned)
Distributed by Microcinema
George Bellows
Narrated by Ethan Hawke
(30 minutes, color, captioned)
Distributed by Microcinema
Audio Podcasts
>Introduction to the Exhibition
Shock of the News
Gilbert Stuart
Edo: Art in Japan, 1615–1868
Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life
Paintings of Willem van Aelst
Miró: Two Views
Paintings
“Gallery of the Louvre” and the Electric
Telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the
Louvre” as a Religious Painting
American Artists and the Louvre
Samuel Morse’s Louvre in Context
Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Lectures on the
Affinity of Painting with the Other Fine
WEB PRODUCTIONS
Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient
Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Arts” and the Creation of “Gallery of
the Louvre”
The number of visitors to www.nga.gov in
fiscal year 2012 was approximately
17,554,425 or 48,094 per day. The Gallery
now has more than twenty-two newsletters
that reach more than 155,795 subscribers;
more than 2,942,736 newsletters have
been sent out to subscribers this fiscal
George Bellows: An Unfinished Life
Édouard Vuillard
A Sense of Place—Cézanne in Provence
Warhol: Headlines
In the Tower: Mel Bochner
>An American Vision: Henry Francis du
Pont’s Winterthur Museum
Thoughts on the Conservation
Treatment of Morse’s “Gallery of the
Louvre”
>Architecture and Art: Creating Community
>Itō Jakuchū’s Colorful Realm: Juxtaposition,
Naturalism, and Ritual
>解決當代中國藝術
year. The Gallery produced 103 audio and
sixteen video podcasts, which equate to
1,984,891.99 minutes and 23,171,043.61
megabytes downloaded throughout the
fiscal year via the Gallery’s website. On
ArtBabble, Gallery video received 784,911
page views. The Gallery’s Facebook pres-
>PASSAGE 7: John Cage—incidents, texts,
conversations, and music
>Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-
Expression in American Paintings
>Exotic Beasts and Politics: The Menageries
of Josephine Bonaparte, Lorenzo de’ Medici,
>Solving the East/West Conundrum in
Modern Chinese Art
>Art on the Mall: The National Gallery
of Art Sculpture Garden
>David Finley, Andrew Mellon, and the
Founding of the National Gallery
ence has garnered more than 47,834 and Rudolph II
>Garden of Illusions: The National Gallery
of Art Sculpture Garden
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