WASHINGTON, DC.- Ten themes—Scrape, Concentricity,
Line, Gesture, Art on Art, Drip, Stripe to Zip, Figure or Ground, Monochrome,
and Picture the Frame—reveal surprising juxtapositions among the 126 paintings,
sculptures, drawings, and prints selected from the famed collection of Robert
and Jane Meyerhoff, amassed between 1958 and 2004, the
year of Jane Meyerhoff’s death. While six American masters—Jasper Johns,
Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans
Hofmann, and Frank Stella—figure prominently, all of the leading abstract
expressionists and several younger artists are also represented. The Robert and
Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works will be on view in the East
Building of the National Gallery of Art through May 2,
2010.