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Timeless Tradition
Master Copyists from the National Gallery of Art's Copyist Program
May 20 — June 27, 2021

Master Copyist Demo with Tanya Roland

Saturday, June 19, 10am - 11:30am

Free - Join us on Zoom HERE!

Meet-the-Artist Social

June 27th at 3pm

In the Athenaeum gallery

The copyist program at the National Gallery of Art offers a unique opportunity for artists to study the techniques of old masters through intimate study in the galleries. This exhibit presents the work of members of this program alongside a color photo of the original and an artist’s statement explaining why the work was chosen and what was learned

through copying.

The National Gallery of Art Copyists include: Sarah Bentley, Kathleen Carroll, Bruce Campbell, Amelia Cheuk, Gillian Collins, Sonia Gadra, Alice Kale, Christopher Madden, Lillian Mason, Theresa Miller, Robert O’Brien, Tanya Roland, Robin Rosner, Tom Semmes, Ann Wallace

Click on the arrow to the right to see the full show.

* Master Art Copyists is not sponsored by the National Gallery of Art

Gillian Collins

Copy after Vincent Van Gogh
“Green Wheat Fields, Auvers”, 1890
Original 28½” × 36” (copy 22” x 28”)
$1,200

Amelia Cheuk

Copy after Claude Monet
“The Bridge at Argenteuil,” 1874
Original 23” x 31” (copy 24” x 30”)
$1,950

Bruce I. Campbell

Copy after Paul Guigou,
“Washerwomen on the Banks of the Durance”, 1866
Original 26” x 45¼” (copy 20” x 40”)
$4,500

Bruce I. Campbell

Copy after Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
“Favorite of the Emir”, c. 1879
Original 56” x 87” (copy 30” x 40”)
$5,500

Christopher Madden

Copy after Winslow Homer
“Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)”, 1873–1876
Original 24½ “x 38½” (copy 24” x 36”)
$3,500

Christopher Madden

Copy after Thomas Moran, “Green River Cliffs, Wyoming”, 1881
Original 25 x 62 in. (copy 16 x 36 in.)

Sarah Bentley

Copy after Rembrandt van Rijn
“Self-Portrait”, 1659
Original 33 ¼” x 26” (copy 28” x 22”)
$2,500

Sonia Garda

Copy after John Singer Sargent
“Nonchaloir (Repose)”, 1911
Original 25” x 30” (copy 18” x 24”)
$2,600

Amelia Cheuk

Copy after Joseph Mallord William Turner
“Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight”, 1835
Original 36 5/16” x 48 3/8”(copy 30” x 40“)
$2,950

Tom Semmes

Copy after John Constable
“Wivenhoe Park, Essex”, 1816
Original 22” x 40” (copy 18” x 29”)
$1,200

Lillian Mason

Copy after John Singer Sargent
“Marie Buloz Pailleron (Madame Edouard Pailleron)”, 1879
Original 83”x 41” (copy 20” x 24”)
NFS

Robin Rossner

Copy after Claude Monet
“The Bridge at Argenteuil”, 1874
Original: 23” x 31” (copy: 18” x 24”)
NFS

Ann Wallace

Copy after Joseph Mallord William Turner
“Rotterdam Ferry-Boat”, 1883
Original 36 5/16” x 48 ¼” (Copy 30” x 40”)
$2,400

Alice Kale

Copy after Aelbert Cuyp
“River Landscape with Cows”, 1645/1650
Original: 26¾” x 35½” (copy 25” x 30”)
$1,800

Theresa Miller

Copy after Paul Cezanne,
“The Peppermint Bottle”, 1893/1895
Original: 25 15/16” x 32 5/16” (copy 21” x 24” )
$1,750

Tanya Roland

Copy after Rembrandt van Rijn
“Self-Portrait”, 1659
Original 33¼” x 26” (copy 37½” x 30½”)
NFS

Robert O’Brien

Copy after Auguste Renoir
“Diana”, 1867
Original 79” x 51” (copy 30” x 40”)
$3,400