The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C will show some of Edvard Munch most beloved images from the Gallery’s Collection from May 19- July 28.
The National Gallery of Art marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch, Norway’s most famed painter and printmaker, with an exhibition of more than 20 renowned works on paper from the Gallery’s collection. On view from May 19 through July 28, 2013, on the Ground Floor of the West Building, Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute includes Geschrei (The Scream) (1895), The Madonna (1895), and a unique series of six variant impressions, Two Women on the Shore (1898).
For more than 65 years The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has showcased Edvard Munch’s work. The first exhibition was Woodcuts, Lithographs, and Etchings by Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, which ran April 6–June 1, 1947.
The Munch Museum in Oslo loaned the painting The Sick Girl, which was featured in the exhibition The Sick Girl by Edvard Munch in 1975.
When the National Gallery opened its East Building in 1978, the first artist chosen for a monographic exhibition was Munch, in that year’s Edvard Munch: Symbols and Images, as seen in photos on this page. In 1990 the Edvard Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family Collection was shown. The most recent exhibition, in 2010, Edvard Munch: Master Prints, explored the artist’s reworking of images through various printmaking techniques.
The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It is made possible by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art.
Read more about the exhibition on The National Gallery of Art home page
Or on the official Norwegian anniversary page.