For many art lovers, the true Dutch master is Vincent van Gogh. The largest exhibition of his works to appear outside the Netherlands in 25 years opens at a gallery in Washington.

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Buckingham Palace has been opened for tourists. It contains some great pictures, most are from the Netherlands.

The opening of Buckingham Palace to paying tourists this month at 8 pounds ($12) a head hasn’t quite lived up to its advance publicity; what does, these days? The mere possession of a ticket, raved the New York Times last June, “will have the magical properties of fairy gold…

To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective of Piet Mondrian, the father of asymmetrical design.

In the photographs that survive from his last years, Piet Mondrian’s own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle…

Painter Hendrick Terbrugghen establishes a new reputation more than three centuries after his death. The Dutchman’s first exhibition is in Ohio’s Dayton Art Institute.

By 1600, European painters found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever…

Dutch Anthropologist Adrian A. Gerbrands talked at New York’s Museum of Primitive Art about the religious art of the Asmat, a little-known Papuan people who live in New Guinea.

Before his tragic death on an expedition to Netherlands New Guinea last year, young Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, managed to collect much of what he was searching for in the far Pacific: the religious art of the Asmat, a little-known Papuan people who live on the waterlogged Casuarinen Coast. Last…

Pieter Bruegel was a lowbrow in art. He kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. Surviving paintings are shown in Vienna at the moment.

PIETER BRUEGEL was a lowbrow in art. In an age when the Italian Renaissance was sweeping all before it, Bruegel kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. His zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and…

350 years ago Rembrandt was born. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings.

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the…

In the Netherlands, which has produced some of the world’s finest painters and fakers of old masters, experts decided to stage a “Fake and Genuine” exhibition.

The Netherlands, which has produced some of the world’s finest painters, has also produced some of the finest fakers of old masters. *Partly for fun and partly to show the public “what the essence of a work of art is,” Amsterdam’s experts decided two years ago to stage a “Fake…

A sponsored exhibition by Princess Juliana of 70 old Dutch masters is shown in Manhattan.

Sponsored by Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, the finest exhibition of old Dutch masters the U.S. has seen in a generation this week lured throngs of Manhattan gallery-goers to Fifth Avenue’s palatial Duveen Galleries. Purpose of the exhibition: to raise funds for Dutch refugees.

As an exhibition of great art,…

Wilhelmina, a woman of plain tastes, and Juliana visited Paris for an exhibition about the Dutch East-Indies.

She is a good woman of plain tastes; she has an Eastern empire and a fat Prince Consort; she is the Queen Victoria of today; she was last week in Paris for the first time in 19 years—Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hon…

Queen Mother Emma visited a loan exhibition of Dutch art in London. Attendants kept a curious crowd outside locked doors, but Queen Emma commanded to open the doors.

A white-haired, bespectacled old lady with a big black umbrella and a little black bonnet tied under chin last week honored some great men of her country and proved to the world that the Dutch are a hardy race.

She was the Queen-Mother Emma of Holland, 70 years old, the proud…