Edward Burtynsky: Oil
through december 13, 2009

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has traveled internationally for more than a decade to chronicle the global production, distribution, and use of oil, the energy source that has shaped the modern world. This world premiere exhibition, comprised of approximately 55 large-scale color landscape photographs, provides a penetrating look at one of the most important subjects of our time, by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world.

Sargent and the Sea
through January 3, 2010

In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century.

Sargent and the Sea is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and made possible by the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Christie's, The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc., and Altria Group, Inc. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and and The Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation.

Nature as Nation
19th-Century American Landscapes
from the Collection
on view now

This permanent collection installation features highlights of the Corcoran’s distinguished holdings of 19th-Century American landscape painting, one of the best such collections in the world.

American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
On view now

This installation of more than 30 bronze sculptures from the Corcoran’s world-renowned collection of American art highlights works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by such masters of the medium as Elie Nadelman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Alexander Phimister Proctor (sculptor of Washington’s Buffalo Bridge).  Works by women sculptors are a particular strength of the Corcoran’s collection, including those by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. The exhibition also features popular favorites such as western bronzes by Frederic Remington, a Civil War group by John Rogers, and sculptures by artists better known for their paintings, such as Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent.