Image Galleries from Special Exhibitions

Includes nearly 300 works from 30 artists, reinstalled over the entire 4th Floor painting and sculpture galleries and the collection galleries for drawings and prints. Abstract Expressionist New York will mark the first time in over 40 years that the AbEx artists have "hung together" at MoMA, so to speak. Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Hoffman,...

It's evident that dismissing Norman Rockwell as "merely" an illustrator is foolish. He captured life in the United States through bad times (the Great Depression and World War II) and good (the idyllic 50s), and, with the onset of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, uncomfortable and unjust.

A fascinating overview of how Willem de Kooning evolved artistically from a classically trained Dutch teenager, to a progressive artist in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, to a living American legend out on Long Island. The exhibition includes more than 200 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.

Demonstrates the development of Italian drawing from the beginning of the 15th-century, which coincides with the start of the Early Renaissance, to roughly 1510, close to the end of the High Renaissance. Along the way, these 101 fragile, 500+ year old drawings allow us to see the introduction of perspective and naturalism.

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection assembles over 80 key pieces of the Dale Collection from throughout the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and has regrouped them. No longer separated by chronology or artist, the exhibition instead imitates the canvases' stylistic placement within the Dale's Manhattan townhouse.

The first major museum exhibition to focus on portraiture and the representation of gay and lesbian identities in American art, this show explores six eras in a chronological arc.

Contained more than 60 paintings and drawings by the Master, along with paintings by his pupils and collaborators. Almost all of Leonardo's surviving Milanese works were reunited --including two that have never been in the same room before: the National Gallery's The Virgin of the Rocks (ca. 1491/2-99 and 1506-08) and the Louvre's The Virgin of...

Thoroughly chronicles Picasso's Guitar series (1912-14), which most art historians mark as the turning point between Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism.

Consists of paintings, prints and drawings by the Dutch Master himself and a select group of his pupils. The show is a rare opportunity to view fragile works on paper that are rarely seen, let alone loaned. It also represents a tale of two collectors -- an American industrialist and a Dutch scholar -- and their common fascination with Rembrandt.

Comprised of some 250 works, the show was presented by period in thirteen "chapters" ranging from Magritte's early Surrealist paintings, to his Post-War experiments and kitschy période vache ("cow period"), to his late Empire of Light series -- united throughout by green apples, veils, and the ubiquitous gentlemen in bowler hats.

In 2011, as the 10th anniversary of September 11 drew near, painter Todd Stone held an exhibition the series he has been working on since that horrific day. This image gallery concentrates on the day of the attacks, but subsequent paintings in the series chronicle rescue, clean up, and rebuilding efforts.

Berthe Morisot in Madrid

Though his career was relatively short, the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound influence on his contemporary artists during the first three decades of the 17th century. Of the more than 50 works in this exhibition, over 40 are from European painters who were infected with Caravaggio's sense of drama. The...