National Gallery of Art | Videos Podcast
1) Vera Lutter | nga
Drawing on one of the earliest forms of photographic technology, Vera Lutter (German, b. 1960) creates monumental photographs of compelling architectural spaces. She first builds a camera obscura by d...Show More
2) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art Part VI: Rockwell Kent and the End of the World
Justin Wolff, associate professor of art history, University of Maine. In November 1937 Life magazine featured four lithographs by the American artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) in the article “Four Wa...Show More
3) Hubert Robert at the Flower-Strewn Abyss
Nina L. Dubin, associate professor of art history, University of Illinois at Chicago. On the occasion of the exhibition Hubert Robert, 1733–1808 at the National Gallery of Art, Nina Dubin presented a ...Show More
4) Discoveries from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives
Paige Rozanski, curatorial assistant, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art. In this lecture held on September 26, 2016, as part of the Works in Progress series at the National Gallery of ...Show More
5) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, V: Marsden Hartley’s Maine
Randall Griffey, associate curator, department of modern and contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art. American painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) entered the modernist canon as a result of the a...Show More
6) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, IV: Arthur Dove: Circles, Signs, and Sounds
Rachael Z. DeLue, associate professor, department of art and archaeology, Princeton University. The modern American artist Arthur Dove (1880–1946) drew inspiration from the natural world when making h...Show More
7) Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Narrated by John Lithgow, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Stuart Davis: In Full Swing. Stuart Davis (1892 –1964) was an American original. Trained as a realist painter, he became...Show More
8) John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, III: Seeing in Detail: Frederic Church and the Language of Landscape
Jennifer Raab, assistant professor, department of the history of art, Yale University. What does it mean to see a work of art “in detail”? Speaking at the inaugural John Wilmerding Symposium on Americ...Show More
9) Jean Tinguely, "Portrait of Virginia"
Swiss artist Jean Tinguely spent several months in Los Angeles in 1963 preparing for a Dwan Gallery exhibition. In this kinetic portrait, Tinguely depicts gallery owner Virginia Dwan as a delicate arr...Show More
10) Virginia Dwan, Journey to Southern Mexico
In April 1969, Virginia Dwan joined artists Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt on a journey to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The trio visited ancient Maya sites and took a boat ride on the Usumacinta River ...Show More