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El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections (& Portland OR)

On view through February 16, 2015,  El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration  National Gallery of Art  El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos),  Laocoön , c. 1610/1614 oil on canvas Samuel H. Kress Collection The 400th anniversary of El Greco's death will be remembered at the National Gallery of Art with an exhibition of 11 paintings from the Gallery, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and from the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore. On view through February 16, 2015,  El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration  includes some of the artist's most beloved paintings, renowned for compositions of bold colors and subjects with dramatic expression. "This exhibition showcases the artist's groundbreaking style of painting that fused elements of Byzantine and Renaissance art with the heightened spirituality of the Counter-Reformati

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye at National Gallery of Art, Washington

Gustave Caillebotte  at National Gallery of Art, Washington June 28–October 4, 2015 Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, from November 8, 2015, through February 14, 2016  Gustave Caillebotte , On the Pont de l’Europe , 1876-1877 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Fifty of the most important and beloved paintings of Paris and its environs by impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) will be the focus of the first major U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 20 years. On view in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from June 28 through October 4, 2015,  Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye  will provide visitors with a better understanding of Caillebotte's artistic character and the complexity of his contribution to modernist painting. "Caillebotte's paintings were inaccessible for almost a century, and they are still hard to come by in public institutions. For those interested in his work, there is no place to go

“PICASSO/DALI, DALI/PICASSO” AT THE DALI MUSEUM IN ST. PETERSBURG, FL

After its premier at The Dali, the exhibit will be on display at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona from March 19-June 28, 2015. Arguably the two most influential 20th century Spanish artists, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, come together this fall in this landmark exhibition at The Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, FL. Organized by The Dali and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona with the collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali, “Picasso/Dali, Dali/Picasso” runs through February 16, 2015. The exhibit features rarely loaned works from more than 20 international museums and collectors worldwide. There are over 90 works in the exhibit including a large assortment of paintings, as well as drawings, prints and sculpture plus archival documents such as postcards from Dali to Picasso.  “This Picasso exhibition offers the possibility of rereading the relationship between two key figures of twentieth-century art and exploring new interpretations of the period in which their lives and works