Two paintings by Claude Monet are slated to go on view in Sacramento next July. In September, a museum in Madison, Wisconsin, is due to receive a video by Howardena Pindell and a sculpture by Fred Sandback. Both sets of loans come from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which on November 12 named eight museums for the second round of its Across the Nation program.
The National Gallery says each host chose two to five works. The gallery will pay for shipping, installation, and insurance and help fund training and local promotion. The April announcement of a $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation explains how the program can continue beyond its pilot: the gift funds a permanent endowment. It was announced months before the new hosts were named.
The loan list shows what the hosts did with that choice. The Crocker Art Museum plans to show Monet’s *The Willows* and *Cliffs at Pourville* alongside two Renoirs, one of them a portrait of Monet. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art chose two works in different media: Pindell’s video *Free, White and 21* and Sandback’s *Blue Corner Piece*.
A loan at no cost to the host does not set the price at the door. The Crocker currently lists standard adult admission at $15; Madison says it does not charge admission to its exhibitions. Those are current museum policies, so check the host’s listing before making a trip in 2027.
The National Gallery’s schedule puts Dayton, Ohio, in July alongside Sacramento; Mobile, Alabama, and Brookings, South Dakota, in August; Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in September alongside Madison; and El Paso, Texas, in October. The announcement gives opening months rather than exact days and says the loans will remain on view into 2029.