2011 Annual Report - National Gallery of Art

Hirzel. The Epstein Family Collection donated
two drawings and three prints by Edvard
Munch, notably the color aquatint Female Nude
in an Interior, 1896.
A bequest from Evelyn Stefansson Nef
included more than forty-five twentieth-
century prints, the highlight being a set of
Picasso’s fourteen Saltimbanques etchings and
drypoints. Major additions to the Gallery’s
German expressionist holdings were Otto
Lange’s Churchgoer with a Light, c. 1917, a monotype-wiped
woodcut purchased with funds
donated by Joan and David Maxwell, and a
monotype-colored proof of Lovis Corinth’s Fall
of Man, 1919. Kleine Dada Soirée, 1922, by Kurt
Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg is an advertisement
and program for a series of Dada
events. Thomas A. Cox added nine works by
John Taylor Arms in recognition of the Gallery’s
Arms exhibition.
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Two important postwar print acquisitions
included Louise Bourgeois’ extremely rare and
groundbreaking surreal set of nine engravings,
He Disappeared into Complete Silence, 1947, made
possible by Dian Woodner. Nelson Blitz funded
a uniquely complete set of seven state proofs by
Picasso, crucial to demonstrate the development
of his reduction-manner linocut The Dejuner sur
l’Herbe (after Manet), 1962.
PHOTOGRAPHS The Gallery acquired
more than 200 photographs this year. An exceptional
gift was the donation of forty-five
photographs by American modernist Harry
Callahan, given by the Callahan family.
Ranging from early works made in Detroit in
the 1940s, to portraits of his wife, Eleanor,
from the 1940s through the 1950s, to his last
vivid color photographs of the 1980s and 1990s,
the group was selected by Callahan himself.
� William Henry Fox
Talbot, A Scene in
York: York Minster from
Lop Lane, Edward J.
Lenkin Fund, Melvin
and Thelma Lenkin
Fund, and Stephen
G. Stein Fund