West European and American Painting from the Museums of the USA

The Moscow leg of West European and American Painting from the Museums of the USA opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (8 April – 19 May 1976), after the exhibition’s opening at the Hermitage in Leningrad. It gathered paintings from five American museums: the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, spanning the Italian Renaissance, Dutch and French old masters, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, and American realism. The exhibition was organised for the Soviet Union by the American collector Armand Hammer.

Its Vermeer was A Lady Writing (National Gallery of Art, Washington). After Moscow the exhibition continued to Kyiv and Minsk through the summer of 1976.