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Acquisition Highlights

Since inauguration in 1880, the National Gallery has been fortunate to build its collection thanks to the generosity of donor gifts and curatorial acquisitions. Visit often to discover the depth and diversity of the collection as we continue to add artworks back through history and up to the present.



Highlights 1987 - 1988

The McFarlane Children
William Raphael
The McFarlane Children, 1871
The Bath
Mary Cassat
The Bath, 1890-1891 		Green Sunday
William Kurelek
Green Sunday , 1962

Square No. 3
Robert Houle
Square No. 3 , 1978

They brought the heavy corse with easy pace/ To yawning gulfe of deepe Avernus hole
Charlotte Schreiber
They brought the heavy corse with easy pace/ To yawning gulfe of deepe Avernus hole, 1871 		Where he unawares the fairest Una found/ Teaching the Satyres
Charlotte Schreiber
Where he unawares the fairest Una found/ Teaching the Satyres , 1871 		And with greene boughes decking a gloomy glide/ About the fountaine like a girlond made
Charlotte Schreiber
And with greene boughes decking a gloomy glide/ About the fountaine like a girlond made, 1871 		Faire virgin, to redeeme her deare/ brings Arthure to the fight
Charlotte Schreiber
Faire virgin, to redeeme her deare/ brings Arthure to the fight, 1871
Citadel of Calvi, Corsica
M.C. Escher
Citadel of Calvi, Corsica, October 1928 		Calvi, Corsica
M.C. Escher
Calvi, Corsica, December 1933		 Bond of Union
M.C. Escher
Bond of Union, April 1956		 Circle Limit I
M.C. Escher
Circle Limit I, November 1958