Press Event: From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection

Description

ew York investment broker Chester Dale’s 1962 bequest made the National Gallery of Art one of the leading repositories in North America of French art of the late-19th and early 20th centuries. ‘From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection,’ on view in the Gallery’s West Building from January 31, 2010 through January 2, 2012, will bring together 81 of the finest French and American paintings that Dale and his wife Maud, an artist and critic, assembled from the 1920s through the 1950s.