Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1982
January 20, 1982
Rodin film premieres at National Gallery
January 25, 1982
Four fellowships awarded by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
January 28, 1982
Rodin exhibition [Rodin Rediscovered] extended through April 11. New Rodin film to be shown daily
January 28, 1982
Memorial exhibition to honor Lessing J. Rosenwald opens February 21 through May 9, 1982
March 1, 1982
First major El Greco exhibition [El Greco of Toledo] to open in Madrid in April
March 18, 1982
Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Lends Rembrandts, Vermeer, Hals, other Dutch masters
March 23, 1982
Drawings by Rembrandt, his contemporaries mark Netherlands-United States bicentennial
April 12, 1982
Advance Exhibition Schedule: From September 1982 through January 1983
April 22, 1982
Critic, Renaissance scholar Leo Steinberg to give 1982 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures
May 4, 1982
Modern Paintings from Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection begin U.S. tour at National Gallery May 30
May 13, 1982
John Wilmerding named successor to assistant director as of February 1
May 26, 1982
Eighteenth-century drawings from the collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler at National Gallery
June 16, 1982
El Greco exhibition begins U.S. tour July 2 at the National Gallery of Art
July 20, 1982
Bellows Boxing Pictures to open at the National Gallery of Art
August 10, 1982
Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica: Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection
August 23, 1982
Comprehensive exhibition of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) marks tercentenary of artist's death
August 24, 1982
Prints and photographs of nineteenth-century France at the National Gallery of Art
August 30, 1982
41st season of Sunday evening concerts at the National Gallery begins October 3
August 30, 1982
Press advisory [Press preview for Bellows and Maiolica exhibitions]
September 8, 1982
National Gallery acquires first complete set of Picasso's bull prints in U.S.
September 8, 1982
Braque: The Papiers Collés opens at the National Gallery of Art on October 31, 1982
September 16, 1982
1982-1983 fellowships awarded by Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
September 16, 1982
Harold Edwin Wethey appointed National Gallery Kress Professor for 1982-1983
September 17, 1982
David Smith opens at the National Gallery of Art on November 7, 1982
September 24, 1982
Advance Fact Sheet West Building: The New Ground Floor
September 28, 1982
Manet's Paris at the National Gallery of Art
September 28, 1982
Press advisory [Press preview for Claude Lorrain exhibition]
September 30, 1982
National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study receives endowment grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
October 21, 1982
Comprehensive exhibition of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz at the National Gallery of Art
October 29, 1982
Special exhibition of Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre at National Gallery of Art
November 10, 1982
Exhibition at National Gallery of Art celebrates 500th anniversary of Raphael's birth
November 15, 1982
First comprehensive exhibition of paintings by John F. Peto in thirty years at the National Gallery of Art
November 29, 1982
17th-Century Paintings from Naples on View at National Gallery of Art
December 6, 1982
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections
December 9, 1982
Advance Fact Sheet [Mauritshuis: Dutch Painting of the Golden Age from the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague]
December 15, 1982
American Naïve Paintings: A permanent collection at the National Gallery
December 28, 1982
National Gallery of Art announces major acquisitions [from collection of John Hay Whitney]