Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1986
January 15, 1986
Titian's masterpiece The Flaying of Marsyas on view at the National Gallery of Art
January 29, 1986
Baroque Paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art at the National Gallery of Art
February 3, 1986
First exhibition of drawings by Jacques de Gheyn at National Gallery of Art
February 13, 1986
Media advisory [Announcements concerning Treasure Houses of Britain]
February 18, 1986
Treasure Houses [exhibition] Extended Until April 13
February 18, 1986
Washington Revisits Brideshead - Over Eleven Lunches [Granada Television International news release]
March 5, 1986
Graphicstudio archive acquisition announced by National Gallery of Art
April 9, 1986
Lukas Foss named 1986 Andrew W. Mellon lecturer
April 15, 1986
Advance Exhibition Schedule: April 1986-February 1987
April 15, 1986
Treasure Houses doors finally close at the National Gallery of Art. Nearly one million visited popular exhibition
April 22, 1986
Advance passes now available for Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the U.S.S.R. opening May 1 at the National Gallery of Art
May 20, 1986
Hours extended for Soviet Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
May 20, 1986
Paintings by 19th-century landscape artist George Inness to go on view at the National Gallery of Art
June 11, 1986
Renaissance sculpture from Vienna on view at the National Gallery of Art
June 30, 1986
New Installation Fact Sheet [Seven American Masters]
July 1, 1986|
Elizabeth A.C. Weil to head National Gallery's corporate affairs office
July 1, 1986
Advance Exhibition Schedule: August 1986 - September 1987
July 1, 1986
National Gallery of Art receives new gift from collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
July 10, 1986
National Gallery to show selected works from [Mr. and Mrs. Paul] Mellon Gifts
July 22, 1986
American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection to open at the National Gallery
July 28, 1986
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent to open January 25, 1987 at the National Gallery
August 1, 1986
Fall and winter special exhibitions at the National Gallery range from 16th-century Italian masters to American decorative arts
August 1, 1986
National Gallery of Art to present paintings by Matisse
August 22, 1986
45th season of Sunday evening free concerts to open October 5, 1986 at the National Gallery of Art
August 23, 1986
Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross acquired by the National Gallery
August 27, 1986
National Gallery of Art presents works by Alexander Archipenko from the Tel-Aviv Museum
October 1, 1986
Celebration of works by Goya at National Gallery
October 1, 1986
Works by 16th-century master draftsmen on view at the National Gallery [The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings of the Sixteenth Century]
October 1, 1986
Sir Lawrence Gowing appointed National Gallery Kress Professor 1986-1987
October 29, 1986
Works by American artist John Marin donated to the National Gallery
November 7, 1986
Two scholars [Anne d'Harnoncourt and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann] named to board of Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
November 18, 1986
Centennial exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe to open in 1987 at the National Gallery of Art
December 1, 1986
Advance Exhibition Schedule
December 15, 1986
National Gallery acquires three Italian Baroque paintings [by Guercino and Francesco Albani]
December 16, 1986
National Gallery appoints new administrator [Anne Borden Evans]