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Homeless Animal Rescue Team

Homeless Animal Rescue Team ANNUAL REPORT

PO BOX 7261 • Fairfax Station, VA 22039 • 703-691-4278 • www.hart90.org

THE Homeless Animal Rescue

Team (HART), a no-kill

animal rescue group incorporated in 1990,

was founded to give animal rescuers a re-

source, responsible pet owners an option,

and animals on death row a chance. We’ve

assisted the unwanted, the lost, the sick,

the abused, and the dying. HART works

with local veterinarians, foster homes, ken-

nels, and trainers in temporarily caring for

an animal pending its placement in a loving,

carefully screened new home.

In carrying out our work, HART routine-

ly renders assistance to people who, due

to failing health, financial distress, or other

personal circumstances, require assistance

relating to their pets. To the extent possible,

HART provides resources to help senior

and indigent owners keep their compan-

ion animals. HART also helps those whose

circumstances force them to give up a be-

loved pet by placing the animal in a foster

or permanent home where it will receive

loving care for the remainder of its life. Fi-

nally, HART helps people who themselves

rescue an animal in distress, but are unable

to provide long-term care for the animal,

by relieving the rescuer of the emotional

burden of placing the animal in a public

shelter where it may well be put to death.

We continue to play an ever vital role in

assisting shelters in and surrounding the DC

Metro area by taking dogs and cats from

the shelters for rehoming through HART.

These shelters face a steady stream of un-

wanted animals and, in the case of rural

shelters, see virtually no traffic in potential

adopters. They are forced to destroy an un-

acceptable number of healthy, adoptable

animals each day. Our deepening relation-

ship with shelters throughout Virginia has

led to many success stories. In addition to

the young, readily adoptable dogs and cats,

we also make room for animals destined

for euthanasia because of medical or other

issues, giving them the medical attention or

training they need to get them to their for-

ever homes.

Thanks to our strong volunteer base,

HART operates with extremely mod-

est overhead expenses -- a record low of

1.9% during the present reporting period.

We maintain a minimally-staffed local office,

which has proved to be the optimal way of

housing our organization, establishing a fo-

cal point for executing our programs, while

providing the community convenient ac-

cess to HART. Medical and boarding ex-

penses remain our primary expenditures,

with training costs also significant. While

these expenses are necessary in our op-

erations, we are constantly seeking – and

finding – new ways of helping more ani-

mals with the resources available through

an ever-widening network of partners and

relationships.

“Thanks to our strong volunteer base, HART operates with extremely modest overhead

expenses — a record low of 1.9%”

Clockwise from Upper Left: Amanda and Rocky,

Lynette and Sam, Charlie the Shepherd mix

Founded to give animal rescuers a resource, responsible pet owners an option, and animals on death row a chance.

Overview

HART is one of the few or-

ganizations that assists

sick, older, and injured animals. We help

both purebred and mixed breed pets. We

rescue litters of puppies and kittens AND

their mothers who are all too often left be-

hind by other organizations. They come to

us from wealthy homes where the own-

ers no longer have time for them and they

come from incredible poverty where they

often have not been fed for days on end.

Many times they come to us from no home

at all. We have assisted over 2,000 animals

this year thanks to our supporters and their

stories are as unique as the vast number of

people that comprise HART.

This year in particular has presented new

challenges. Due to the high home foreclo-

sure rate, coupled with increasing unem-

ployment statistics, a record number of

pets are being surrendered to local shel-

ters. Even more horrific are the stories of

those pets who are simply left to fend for

themselves in abandoned houses. Animals

like little Marley, left alone in a closet with

a tiny bowl of food and water. What were

his owners thinking? Apparently it was quite

some time before agents from the fore-

closing bank discovered the now pitifully

thin, absolutely terrified Marley. He would

have starved to death in a day, maybe two,

if not for the network that is HART.

HART is frequently contacted by area

shelters and wardens when animals are

confiscated from breeders and hoard-

ers. Nothing, however, could have pre-

pared us, or the animal rescue community,

for the call that went out in August. A no-

torious puppy mill had been raided and

over 1,000 animals were in need of homes

and a great deal of medical care. HART

volunteers frantically manned the phones,

lining up foster home after foster home, a

total of 36. We ended up leaving the facil-

ity with 46 dogs and pups (math is never a

rescuer’s strong point) and the hope and

resolve that somehow we would find the

additional fosters. We did, thanks to the

kind-hearted folks who make up our foster

network. All dogs now are enjoying a life

they never knew could be so happy.

Divorce is another issue that impacts the

work we do. Daisy, a lovely Persian was

limping badly when her owner finally called

us. A visit to one of HART’s veterinary

partners soon diagnosed a fractured pel-

vis, but Daisy’s mother was having difficulty

meeting her family’s basic needs, let alone

finding the money for expensive surgery

and the time to help Daisy recuperate. Our

supporters made certain that Daisy had

the second chance at happiness that she

deserves.

Challenges “Due to the high home foreclosure rate a record number of pets are being

surrendered to local shelters”

Clockwise from Upper Left: Marley, Chance, Itsy BitsyOpposite:Daisy the Persian

Homeless Animal Rescue TeamHomeless Animal Rescue Team

Corinne SoveyRescue Coordinator

PO BOX 7261 Fairfax Station, VA [email protected]

United Way #8363, CFC #75875, CVC #8183

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Board Members and Staff

1. Maggie Colucci, Board Member 2. Charlie Dietz, Board Member 3. Tammy Burton, Office Manager 4. Joan Urban, Board Member 5. Charlene Bofinger, Board Member 6. Carol Klingler, Board Member 7. Pat Phelps, Board Member

HART is a United Way/Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) charitable organization

United Way #8363, CFC #75875, CVC #8183

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PO BOX 7261 • Fairfax Station, VA 22039 • 703-691-4278 • www.hart90.org

Clockwise from Upper Left: David & Lucy, Tom & Jerry, Barbara & Lucky,

Priness, Natalie and Sugar

ProcessAS we reported in 2007, we were

challenged with once again lo-

cating a reputable boarding facility after

Pleasant Valley closed its doors. We are cur-

rently housing our animals in foster homes

and in three facilities, Country Club Kennels

in Catlett, Pet Tailor in Castleton and a pri-

vate boarding kennel in Nokesville. While all

are far from our usual adoption venues, our

tireless volunteers make the long trek out to

bring our dogs to adoption events. The fa-

cilities provide loving environments for our

pets, one even going to the extra step of

bathing dogs about to board the van to an

adoption day.

Every weekend, HART brings an average

of 60 dogs to area Petcos, sometimes show-

ing dogs at as many as three locations. Our

weekly adoption events, coupled with the

ongoing permanent cage space made avail-

able for our cats by PetsMart, allows HART

to adopt as many as 20-30 animals in one

weekend!

After a concentrated effort to recruit new

fosters, our Cat Program experienced its

greatest number ever of those participat-

ing in the cat foster program. Cat fosters are

particularly difficult to locate in that few cat

lovers have just one cat. They frequently have

two or three cats already, making it difficult to

find those with room to spare.

The HOAP program, HART Owner As-

sistance Program, introduced in 2006, keeps

pets being given up by their owners in their

own homes while we search for a new one.

These animals attend adoption days and are

available on our website and we follow the

same rigorous approval process -- we merely

eliminate the cost, fiscal to HART and emo-

tional to the pet, of boarding. We also have

a tight knit group of supporters at what is

truly the “grass roots” of rescue, local and ru-

ral shelter employees. HART is known as the

organization that will take pets without regard

to age or medical condition. Other organiza-

tions have long lists of who they feel are suit-

able. We have no list, only an endless capacity

to love, coupled with a not-soendless bud-

get. While we can’t save them all, we help as

many as we possibly can, often scrambling for

resources (money and space), and gravitate

toward those who need help the most, not

only the most readily adoptable. HART had

a nice boost in exposure this year thanks to

the participation of four of our pups in Ani-

mal Planet’s filming of the “Puppy Olympics.”

These dog-oriented games were filmed and

shown prior to the opening of the Olympic

games in China. Copies of the tape are avail-

able from the Animal Plant website.

“Each week an average of 60 dogs are brought to Petcos for adoption. Permanent cage space for cats at PetsMart allows HART to adopt as many as 20-30 animals in one weekend! ”

18th Annual Silent Auction . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000 3rd Annual Homecoming/Dog Walk . . . . . $21,000 Annual Holiday Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,000

Fundraising Success

$73,000totaling

2%

24%

35%

Overhead Training Medical Boarding

Expenses

Income

United Way/CFC

Fundraising

Donations

39%

United Way and CFC as always played a critical role

in our operations in that campaign income

is the only source of funding that comes in timed increments. The

summer months, when adoption rates tend to decrease, would be

lean indeed without United Way/CFC support. In recognition of

our reliance on these funds, we direct a mailing every fall specifical-

ly asking supporters to designate HART as their United Way/CFC

Campaign beneficiary. Along with targeted print media advertising,

the mailing has proven most effective in increasing participation in

these campaigns.

Our 18th Annual Art and Silent Auction this Spring broke all

previous records, netting over $35,000, thanks to our loyal sup-

porters and to a change in venue to the Westfields Marriott. The

Marriott’s generosity in donating so many event “extras” certainly

contributed to the evening’s success. Our other two major fund-

raising events were also tremendously successful. HART’s third an-

nual Homecoming/Dog Walk, held in October, added an additional

$21,000 in desperately needed funds to our coffers. As always,

it was wonderful to see so many of the dogs we’ve helped to

new homes over the years as we strengthened life-long ties to

our organization as well as generated fresh interest in volunteer-

ing to help the cause. Our annual Holiday Party, held this year

at the home of two long-time volunteers, brought in more than

$17,000 as attendees stepped forward even in this “down econ-

omy” to support our work. The event provides another example

of HART’s partnership with the community as McCormick and

Schmick’s Seaford Restaurants donated much of the food for the

party. HART’s Donate a Car Program and several other fundrais-

ers held in conjunction with area businesses throughout the year

continue to support our efforts.

HART is fortunate to be the recipient of annual grants from

constant friends such as the Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum Family

Foundation, the H. Alexander Henry Foundation, the Bob Wiser

Charitable Trust Foundation, the Northern Virginia Community

Foundation, the Petco Foundation, and the Ochsman Foundation.

Additionally, we reap the benefits from the matching gift programs

at companies such as ExxonMobil, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wa-

chovia, Gannett, and American Express.

Funding

As our pool of volunteers continues to grow, thanks to our ever-

increasing visibility in the community (including on-air pres-

ence on Fox Channel 5 news), our website, and our presence on sites

such as www.volunteermatch.com, we look for a continued increase

in programs we offer our community. As always, we benefit from the

pro bono services of professional publication designers, event planners,

accounting services, attorneys, computer systems analysts, and so many

others. Our fabulous informative and user-friendly website continues to

draw well-deserved kudos from the community. HART’s webmasters

are true treasures who are constantly finding ways to make our website

an ever more invaluable tool in our work. This year they leveraged free

online services such as Google Maps and Wordpress blogs to effectively

support our search for the occasional animal who gets away from his/

her foster or new adoptive home. Our webmasters also brought on-

board this year some fresh new talent to handle photographs and re-

vamp our pages. The influence of these design-savvy and innovative

new volunteers may already be seen on our redesigned Alumni Stories

pages. In addition to our website, HART is increasingly making use of

other online media such as Facebook and blogging. This past year saw

HART win 4th place nationwide in Care2’s America’s Favorite Animal

Shelter Contest, bringing HART a $500 prize. In round two of the con-

test, ongoing now and ending on January 31, 2009, HART is hoping to

What’s Next...capture 1st place with its $10,000 award for our dogs and cats. HART

continues to sound the clarion call of the importance of spay/neuter. The

number of animals euthanized due to overpopulation, as we see daily in

our work with rural and local shelters, is such an avoidable tragedy, one that

can be entirely eradicated in one short generation. To that end, all print

and ad media clearly state a pro-spay/neuter message as does our ever

popular line of HART Hot Sauces, available for sale. With our solid core of

volunteers, our active presence in our community, our increasing awareness

of the power of online media and, especially, our fervent desire to prevent

or alleviate suffering wherever we find it, HART looks forward to continued

success in 2009.

Clockwise from Upper Left: Benji, Foxy, Patches, Moxie

Opposite: Frenchie

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The Idealist followed by My Father’s StudioJune 21 at 4:30PMNina Beveridge and Jennifer Alleyn in personJames Beveridge, documentary filmmaker extraordinaire and a cofounder of the National Film Board of Canada, was hardly known at all to his daughter Nina. The Idealist is Nina’s effort to claim her father’s legacy and to capture the true flavor of his remarkable life. (Nina Beveridge, 2004, digital beta, 76 minutes). In My Father’s Studio, Montreal filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn inherits her father Edmund Alleyn’s painting studio. Finding herself drawn more and more into the private space of his art, she makes this film to fathom her father’s psyche. (Jennifer Alleyn, 2008, digital beta, 70 minutes)

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to AbstractionJuly 5 at 2:00PMThree archival films on the British painter and printmaker are featured in association with the exhibition Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction. The first, A New Way of Gravure (Jess Paley, 1950, 12 minutes), shows the artist at work in Atelier 17; the second, The Other Side of the Mirror (Julian Hayter, 1976, 30 minutes), is a documentary by the artist’s son; and the third is Stanley William Hayter: The Artist as Teacher (Ohio State University, 1970, 12 minutes). (54 minutes total)

National Gallery of Art

Audio Tours West Building Main Floor, RotundaAudio tours are available for rental at the West Building Mall entrance for $10 per tour unless otherwise noted.

The Director’s TourThe Director’s Tour: Masterpieces at the National Gallery of ArtDirector Earl A. Powell III and Gallery curators explore more than 130 beloved masterpieces by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Claude Monet, and others, along with information on acquisition, history, and conservation. Handheld digital audio players allow visitors to choose the order in which they look and the length of time they spend with each work.

The Film Novels of Karel VachekJune 6, 13, 20, 27The director of the documentary department at Prague’s legendary FAMU (film school of the Academy of Performing Arts), Karel Vachek, has created one of the most original bodies of work in the history of Czech cinema. His film novels—enormous in scope, ambition, and duration—are improvisational and intuitive but also highly structured and philosophical. Handheld cameras relentlessly prowl, eavesdropping on politicians at ribbon cuttings and plunging headlong into heated discussions. They record the absurdities at ceremonies even as the voluble director acts as agent provocateur in his own interviews with seers, pundits, crackpots, and passersby. Following 20 years of manual labor from 1968 on, Vachek returned to film in the wake of the Velvet Revolution and proceeded to produce this enormous four-part kaleidoscope of the Czech Republic, post-freedom. Produced by Radim Procházka Productions and Alice Lovejoy with the support of The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography. The series is organized by Irena Kovarova.

Film Series

Art Films & Events

Early Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, and the Ensembles from Which They Came • July 12 J Russell Sale, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

The Painter and the Photographer: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred StieglitzJuly 19 Wilford W. Scott, head of adult programs, National Gallery of Art

The Crucible of Viennese Modernism: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka • July 26Christopher With, coordinator of art information, National Gallery of Art

Expatriate Rivals: James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent • August 30 Eric Denker, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Eros and Creativity: The Amorous Sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel • August 9David Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Genius in Tandem: Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns • August 2 Diane Arkin, lecturer and adult program docent coordinator, National Gallery of Art

Fomenting Revolution: Braque, Picasso, and Cubism • August 23 Sally Shelburne, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

LecturesEast Building Concourse, Auditorium 2:00 PM Lecture-related events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.

Summer Lecture SeriesClose Encounters—of an Artistic KindA series exploring intertwined works of art and their creators presented by the staff of the department of adult programs.

Film Programs Salute to Le Festival des 3 ContinentsJuly 4, 5, 12, 18, 19Le Festival des 3 Continents, held annually since 1979 in Nantes, France, presents a distinctive selection of new fiction, documentary, and classic art cinema from Africa, Asia, and South America to critics, filmmakers, and scholars from around the world. Devoted to raising awareness of important and interesting production outside the mainstream, F3C was the first festival to endorse, for example, China’s Hou Hsiao-hsien and Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami. The National Gallery is pleased to join the Freer Gallery of Art and the Embassy of France in saluting this vital forum on its 30th anniversary. Seven Latin American films from past festivals will be shown at the Gallery, African films at the Embassy of France, and Asian films at the Freer Gallery. Special thanks to Antoine Sebire, Tom Vick, and to Jean-Philippe Tessé, programmer for Le Festival des 3 Continents.

From Vault to Screen July 11, 17, 18, 25, 26August 15, 22, 23, 28–30The National Gallery’s annual showcase of recently preserved and restored films from international archives this year focuses on the work of La Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Anthology Film Archives, UCLA Film and Television Archive, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, British Film Institute, Cineteca Nazionale, L’Immagine Ritrovata, and La Cinémathèque française, with special thanks to Tim Lanza, Mike Mashon, Natacha Laurent, Antoine Sebire, Kim Tomadjoglou, Caroline Yeager, and Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual festival in Bologna, Italy, devoted to history, restoration, and rediscovery.

Carl Theodor Dreyer: The Late WorksAugust 2, 9, 16, 22Four rarely shown sound features and one short film by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968) are presented in recently restored or preserved pr ints to mark the 120th anniversary of his birth. While the director’s dedication to the form and contributions to world cinema are now celebrated, his first sound film Vampyr was a commercial failure, and the war and other material matters interfered with the accomplishment of these later works. Ultimately, however, they became his most remarkable achievements. The Gallery wishes to thank the Danish Film Institute for its cooperation in loaning these films.

From Novel to ScreenAugust 8, 15Two adaptations of Pierre Louÿs’ celebrated 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin (it was later also filmed by Luis Buñuel and Julian Duvivier) are presented in honor of the National Gallery exhibition The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain.

East Building Concourse, AuditoriumAn ongoing program of classic cinema, documentary, avant-garde, and area premieres occurs each weekend in the East Building Auditorium, 4th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Programs are free of charge but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Doors open approximately 30 minutes before each show. Programs are subject to change.

Dan Zhu, violinistwith Jie Chen, pianist

June 7 at 6:30PMMusic by Schubert and other composers

Made possible in part by a gift from The Markow-Totevy Foundation

National Gallery Piano Triowith Vilmos Szabadi, violinist, and Sylvia

Kovács, violistJune 14 at 6:30PM

Music by Dohnányi, Shostakovich, and Weiner

Tara Kamangar, pianistJune 21 at 6:30PM

Music by Hossein and Khaleghi

The Washington Sängerbundwith the National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble

June 28 at 6:30PMDavid Montgomery, conductor

Music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and other composers

June 2009

The Director’s Tour: Highlights in Foreign LanguagesVisitors can hear the director’s introduction and commentary at 26 stops on the tour in Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin.

Adventures in ArtA Family Audio Tour of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings(Ages 7–12) Travel with Pieter and Tanya as they explore life and art nearly 400 years ago in Holland and today’s Belgium. $5 per tour, $2 for additional headphones.

Special ExhibitionsThe Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial SpainJune 28, 2009–November 1, 2009Narrated by Gallery director Earl A. Powell III, this tour includes commentary by Álvaro Soler del Campo, curator, Royal Armory, Madrid, and David Alan Brown, curator, Italian paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Cell-Phone TourCall (202) 595-1857 East BuildingThis tour covers selected modern and contemporary works of art in the non-partitioned areas of the Gallery, where cell-phone use is permitted, and includes an introduction to the East Building itself.

Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and PoetJuly 11 at 1:00PMIntroduction by Michael MaglarasA new film essay on the American modernist from Lewiston, Maine—whose peripatetic life, personal tragedy, and original style have made him a topic of endless fascination—is discussed by the filmmaker Michael Maglaras. (2008, digital beta, 65 minutes)

Man with a Movie CameraAugust 1 at 3:30PMAlloy Orchestra on stageThe Alloy Orchestra returns to the National Gallery to perform its stirring original score for Vertov’s legendary silent masterpiece, an avant-garde portrayal of urban life, work, and leisure in Soviet cities that ultimately advanced the arc of experimental filmmaking. (Dziga Vertov, 1929, 35 mm, silent with live music, 70 minutes)

A Short History of ColorJune 7, 14, 21, 28From its beginnings in the late 19th century, the cinema has relied on color to carry its message. Dozens of technical processes have, with varying degrees of success, enhanced the viewer’s experience. While black-and-white has its place in cinematic history, the conventions of color—yellow for outdoors, purple for early evening, blue for the sea, amber for fire, and so on—have been a constant. This series includes three illustrated talks on the attributes, technologies, and transformations of color during the first half of the 20th century as well as a selection of examples.

ConcertsWest Building Main Floor

West Garden Court


exhibition that will include ten of Leyster’s finest works from

American and European collections. Leyster’s oeuvre consists

of a range of subjects, including genre scenes, portraits, and still

lifes, that display her awareness of contemporary artistic styles

and themes. The informality of her engaging paintings owes much

to Frans Hals (c. 1582/1583–1666), with whom she may have

studied, as well as to the Utrecht Caravaggisti. To complement

Leyster’s works, paintings by Hals and by Leyster’s husband,

Jan Miense Molenaer (1610–1668), will also be included.

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to AbstractionMay 31–August 23, 2009West Building Ground Floor Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988) has been widely celebrated

for his influence on creative printmaking in America and Europe.

This exhibition of approximately 55 of Hayter’s most important

prints is drawn primarily from the Gallery’s holdings and the

collection of Ruth Cole Kainen (widow of artist Jacob Kainen).

The range of Hayter’s work in the exhibition includes his early

black-and-white surrealist engravings, outstanding examples of

his technical innovations, unique proofs and color variations, late

linear abstractions inspired by motion and mathematics, and fully

worked copperplates and plaster casts, which he deemed artistic

creations in their own right. The exhibition will also include a

select group of prints by some of the best-known artists to work

at his print workshop, Atelier 17, including Max Ernst, Joan Miró,

and Jackson Pollock.

The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial SpainJune 28–November 1, 2009West Building Main Floor The Royal Armory in Madrid, assembled at a time when the

Spanish Crown was at the height of its international power, is the

oldest and one of the finest and largest armories in the world,

imbued with great historical, artistic, and symbolic significance.

Armor drawn from the unsurpassed holdings of the Spanish

Royal Armory is shown in this exhibition alongside portraits of

rulers dressed in the same armor, painted by such masters

as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Diego

Velázquez, and Alonso Sánchez Coello. Several

large and magnificent tapestries from the royal

collection also depict the armor in use.

Together, some 75 works illustrate the use

of luxurious armor in projecting an image

of royal power in Imperial Spain. The

exhibition includes several full suits of

armor, helmets, shields, and equestrian

armor—worn in battle but more often

in Renaissance parades, pageants,

and jousting tournaments. The works of

art on view date from the reigns of the

Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian I of

Austria (1508–1519) and Emperor Charles

V (1519–1558), to those of his successors,

King Philip II (1556–1598), King Philip III (1598–

1621), and King Philip IV (1621–1665). This is the

first time that the armor has been exhibited together

with the portraits in which it is depicted.

The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci PuzzleJuly 3 -September 7, 2009West Building Ground Floor, Gallerty G42 The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior, a bronze statuette from

the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest,

is the focus of recent technical examinations by National Gallery

of Art conservators and is also the centerpiece of the exhibition,

The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle. The intriguing

work is joined by two additional bronze horses and another

warrior associated with Leonardo, along with two Renaissance

bronze horses by known masters for comparison. Illustrative

panels present evidence related to the works’ origins, including

reproductions of drawings by Leonardo, x-radiographs, and

computer models. The similarities of the Budapest horse to

Leonardo’s drawings led to the first attribution to him in 1916.

New technical evidence gathered from both the Rearing Horse

and its accompanying Mounted Warrior suggests that the cast

could date from as early as the 16th century, although possibly

some years after Leonardo’s death in 1519. No scientific data

were discovered that rule out an early casting date, but the

origins of the clay or wax models from which the horse and its

rider were cast remain a mystery.

Judith LeysterJune 21–November 29, 2009

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 50a In celebration of Judith Leyster’s

(1609–1660) 400th birthday,

the Gallery will showcase

her expressive Self-

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Edouard Manet’s “Ragpicker” from the Norton Simon FoundationMay 22–September 7, 2009West Building Main Floor, Gallery 89 Norton Simon (1907–1993), one of the great collectors of his

age, established the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in

1975 to allow public access to his art treasures. European

painting of the 19th century is one of the major strengths of

the collection, with more than 130 works that span the entire

century. Among the most impressive of these is Ragpicker by

Edouard Manet, which was purchased by Simon in 1968.

The Norton Simon’s Ragpicker and the National Gallery’s Old

Musician and Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet), are from a

series of monumental figural compositions that Manet painted

in the 1860s, inspired by the old masters, particularly 17th-

century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Manet’s debt to

Velázquez is evident in the compositions of Ragpicker and

Tragic Actor, with nearly life-sized figures placed against an

ambiguous backdrop that give the works an austere, theatrical

appearance. The influence of Velázquez can also be recognized

in the relatively somber palette and vibrant brushwork of all

three paintings. Even the humble subject matter is rooted in the

traditions of 17th-century art, which Manet

adapted to create direct and

unsentimental images

of people on the

margins of

society.

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Luis Meléndez (1715–1780) is now recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the achievements of his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Goya. After a precarious beginning to his career, Meléndez received a royal commission in 1771 from the Prince of Asturias (later King Charles IV) to paint a series of still lifes depicting “the four Seasons of the Year, or more properly, the four Elements, with the aim of composing an amusing cabinet with every species of food produced by the Spanish climate.” He became an inventive and consummate painter of still-life arrangements, and in 2000 the National Gallery of Art proudly acquired Still Life with Figs and Bread (c. 1770). This exquisite painting will be featured in an exhibition of some 30 canvases that showcase the master’s virtuoso talent for rendering everyday objects with exacting detail, marvelous effects of color and light, and subtle variations of texture. Paintings from the royal commission, including eight from the Museo del Prado in Spain, as well as works from other European collections, will be on view with related works from American collections. Several loans have never before been exhibited in public. Also on display will be period objects—including an 18th-century cork wine cooler, Alcorcón pottery, a luster-ware honey pot, and a copper chocolate pot—like those represented in Meléndez’s mesmerizing still lifes.

East Building MezzanineMay 17-August 23, 2009 Luis Meléndez

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