Please join us on Tuesday, February 22, for a press breakfast, program, and preview for Gauguin: Maker of Myth, on view in the Gallery's East Building from February 27 through June 5, 2011.

Paul Gauguin's sumptuous, colorful images of Brittany and the islands of the South Seas—some of the most appealing paintings in modern art—are among more than 100 works featured in the first major Gauguin exhibition in the United States in 20 years. Organized around themes of the artist and creator, earthly paradise, the "noble savage," and exotic Eve, this exhibition examines Gauguin's use of religious and mythological motifs to tell stories, as he reinvented and appropriated myths from his European cultural heritage and from Polynesian legend.

For invitation details, click on: http://www.nga.gov/press/event/3011_event.shtm

RSVP to Domini LeNoir at d-lenoir@nga.gov or (202) 842-6353 by 4 p.m., Friday, February 18.

For more information and publicity images, click on: http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/3011/index.shtm

We are going green! Beginning this month, we will provide press kit contents on CDs only. You may also access the kit online. If you prefer to walk through exhibitions with printed press materials in hand, we encourage you to print them out using the link above and bring them with you. We will also have a computer available or you can access the materials via your mobile device.

The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Bank of America is proud to be the global sponsor.

The Marshall B. Coyne Foundation is a generous supporter through the Fund for the International Exchange of Art.

Additional support is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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We look forward to seeing you!

Deborah Ziska  | Chief of Press and Public Information

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