2011 Annual Report - National Gallery of Art

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During the fiscal year, 129 lenders from
fifteen countries and thirteen states
loaned 781 works of art to twenty-one
exhibitions. The Gallery also worked on
another thirty projects scheduled to open
in the next five years and administered
the tour of eight exhibitions. United
States Government Indemnity was
secured for six exhibitions on view in
fiscal year 2011, resulting in a savings of
$2,728,335 in insurance premiums.
>From Impressionism to Modernism:
The Chester Dale Collection
Continued from previous fiscal year to
2 January 2012
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Harry Cooper and Kimberly Jones,
curators
Made possible by United Technologies
Corporation
Film made possible by the HRH
Foundation
>In the Tower: Mark Rothko
Continued from previous fiscal year to 9
January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Harry Cooper, curator
Made possible by the generous support
of the Aaron I. Fleischman Foundation
Film made possible by the HRH
Foundation
>American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Continued from previous fiscal year to
2 January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Nancy Anderson and Charlie Brock,
curators
>German Master Drawings from the
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900
Continued from previous fiscal year to
2 January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Andrew Robison, curator
Made possible through the generous
support of the STIFTUNG RATJEN,
Liechtenstein
>German Master Drawings from the
National Gallery of Art, 1580–1900
Continued from previous fiscal year to
2 January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Andrew Robison, curator
>Edvard Munch: Master Prints
Continued from previous fiscal year to
28 November 2010
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Andrew Robison, curator
Made possible through the generous
loans and support of the Epstein
Family and Catherine Woodard and
Nelson Blitz Jr.
>Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy
Continued from previous fiscal year to
9 January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
David Brown, Gretchen Hirschauer, and
Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, curators
Made possible by Louisa and
Robert Duemling
Sponsored by Altria Group
Additional support provided by
EXHIBITIONS AND LOANS
The Exhibition Circle of the National
Gallery of Art
Supported by an indemnity from
the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities
>The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British
Photography and Painting, 1848–1875
31 October 2010–30 January 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, in association with the
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Diane Waggoner, curator
Made possible through the generous
support of the Trellis Fund and the Ryna
and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation
and Marcella and Neil Cohen
Early support for research provided
by the Marlene Nathan Meyerson
Family Foundation
Supported by an indemnity from
the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities
>Larger Than Life: Ter Brugghen’s “Saint
Sebastian Tended by Irene”
21 January 2011–15 May 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Arthur Wheelock, curator
Made possible through the generous
support of Michael A. Glass
>Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
20 February 2011–30 May 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, and The National
Gallery, London
David Brown, curator
Made possible by the Bracco
Foundation and through the generous
support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen
Kellen Foundation
Additional support kindly provided by
Sally Engelhard Pingree and The Charles
Engelhard Foundation
Supported by an indemnity from the
Federal Council on the Arts and the
Humanities
>Gauguin: Maker of Myth
27 February 2011–5 June 2011
Organized by Tate Modern, London,
in association with the National Gallery
of Art, Washington
Mary Morton, curator
Sponsored globally by Bank of America
Made possible through the generous
support of The Marshall B. Coyne
Foundation through the Fund for
the International Exchange of Art
Additional support provided by
The Exhibition Circle of the National
Gallery of Art
Supported by an indemnity from
the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities
Film made possible by the HRH
Foundation
>In the Tower: Nam June Paik
13 March 2011–2 October 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Harry Cooper, curator
Made possible by The Exhibition Circle
of the National Gallery of Art
>Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit
20 March 2011–31 July 2011
Organized by The Art Institute
of Chicago
Matthew Wittkovsky, curator
Made possible through the generous
support of the Trellis Fund
>Gabriel Metsu, 1629–1667
10 April 2011–24 July 2011
Organized by the National Gallery
of Ireland, Dublin, in association with
the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Arthur Wheelock and Adriaan Waiboer,
curator
Made possible by the Hata Stichting
Supported by an indemnity from
the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities
>Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang
Ratjen Collection, 1525–1835
8 May 2011–27 November 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator
Made possible through the generous
support of the STIFTUNG RATJEN,
Liechtenstein
>The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms
8 May 2011–27 November 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of Art
Charles Ritchie, curator
>Declaration of Independence: The Stone Copy
28 May 2011–5 September 2011
Organized by the National Gallery of
Art, Washington
Deborah Chotner, curator
Lent by David M. Rubenstein
>The Capitoline Venus
8 June 2011–18 September 2011
Organized by Roma Capitale,
Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali–Musei
Capitolini, and the National Gallery of
Art, with the partnership of the Knights
of Columbus and the Embassy of the
Republic of Italy, Washington
Mary Levkoff, curator
Part of The Dream of Rome, a project
initiated by the Mayor of Rome, Gianni
Alemanno, to exhibit timeless
masterpieces in the United States from
2011 to 2013, and Italy@150, a series of
events and activities around Washington
and in the United States to celebrate the
150th anniversary of Italy’s unification,
under the high auspices of the President
of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano
>A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s
“Gallery of the Louvre”
25 June 2011–8 July 2012
Made possible by the generous support
of the Terra Foundation for American Art
and organized in partnership with the
National Gallery of Art
Nancy Anderson, curator
>The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the
Pastrana Tapestries
18 September 2011–8 January 2012
Organized by the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, and the Fundación
Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, in
association with the Embassy of Spain,
the Spain-USA Foundation, and the
Embassy of Portugal and with the
cooperation of the Embassy of Belgium
and the Embassy of Morocco,
Washington, as well as the Diocese
of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church
of Our Lady of the Assumption,
Pastrana, Spain
Julia Burke, Susan Arensberg, and
Mary Levkoff, curators
Made possible through the generous
support of the government of Spain; the
government of Portugal, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Instituto Camões; and
the government of Belgium, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Conservation of tapestries undertaken at
the initiative of the Spanish Fundación
Carlos de Amberes, with support from
the Belgian InBev-Baillet Latour Fund,
and the following Spanish institutions:
Fundación Caja Madrid, Region of
Castilla—La Mancha, Provincial Council
of Guadalajara, Diocese of Sigüenza-
Guadalajara, and Church of Our Lady of
the Assumption, Pastrana
>Warhol: Headlines
25 September 2011–2 January 2012
Organized by the National Gallery of
Art, Washington, in association with The
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the
Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna,
Rome, and the Museum für Moderne
Kunst, Frankfurt
Molly Donovan, curator
Sponsored by The Terra Foundation for
American Art
Made possible by The Exhibition Circle
of the National Gallery of Art
Supported by an indemnity from
the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities
LENDERS TO EXHIBITIONS
Private Collections
Mr. Michael D. Abrams
Verónica E. Betancourt
Mr. Michele Bonuomo
The Honorable Henry Channon,
the Honorable Georgia Fanshawe
and Robin Howard
Gary O. and Jean L. Cohen
Madame Vittorio Coin
John C. Bute
Richard de Pelet
Donny Deutsch
Mrs. Sarah G. Epstein
Viscount Fitzharris
Gordon Getty
Franck Giraud
Greg Gooding
John Gossage
Ken Hakuta
Thomas Kaplan
Andrea Kayne Kaufman and
Jacob J. Kaufman
David Knaus
Christopher Makos
Francesca McLin
Robert E. Meyerhoff
Lord Mountbatten, of Burma