100 Masterworks from the Great Museums of the World (1980)

'One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting' is a collection of 220 ten-minute programs, each one focusing on a painting, appraising its character and content. It examines works in some of the world's finest art collections, galleries and museums, including the Louvre and Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery, West Berlin; Tate Gallery, London; Neue Pinakothek and Lenbachhaus, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Prado Museum, Madrid; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne; Berlin-Dahlem Art Gallery; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Art Institute of Chicago; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Museum Moderner Kunst and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; Skagens Museum, Skagens, Denmark; Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo; Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon; Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki; and the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Examines the following works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City: Farewells (1911) by Umberto Boccioni, Dutch Interior (1928) by Joan Miró, The Meeting (1953) by Richard Lindner, Christina's World (1948) by Andrew Wyeth, and Flag (1955) by Jasper Johns. Also views works there by Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Mary Cassatt, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Examines the following works in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh: Reverend Robert Walker Skating by Henry Raeburn, Madonna and Child by Giulio Romano, Interior of Saint Bavo, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredan, William Bethune and Family by David Wilkie and The Storm by William McTaggart. Examines the following works in the collection of the National Gallery, West Berlin: Cut with the Kitchen Knife by Hannah Höch, Flanders by Otto Dix, The Flute Concert by Adolph von Menzel, Medieval City on the Banks of a River by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and The Poor Poets by Carl Spitzweg. At the Prado Museum, Madrid, examines Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. At the Kunstmuseum, Basel, analyzes The Burning Giraffe by Salvador Dalí. At the Louvre, Paris, explores The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault. At the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, discusses works by twentieth-century painters Yves Tanguy, Jean Dubuffet and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. At the Hermitage Museum and the Russian State Museum, Leningrad, features works by Marc Chagall, Paul Gauguin, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Russian artists Ilya Repin, Lyubov Popova, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel. At various Scandinavian galleries and museums examines works by Andrea Mantegna, Pieter Bruegel, Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, Hans Holbein, Paolo Veronese, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Kazimir Malevich, Joan Miró and Man Ray. The series is hosted by British art critic and historian Edwin Mullins, who is also the program's creator.