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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
When complete it will comprise approximately thirty volumes documenting more than 5000 works of art. Prints and drawings were excluded from the project as being too many in number. [ 2 ] The second volume, prepared by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann , covered Spanish paintings of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and was published in 1990.
Collections of the National Gallery of Art, located in Washington, D.C., United States. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Kiasma, the museum of contemporary art; Sinebrychoff Art Museum; National Gallery (Berlin), Germany, two of whose components are: Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), Berlin; Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin; National Gallery (Athens), Greece (alternatively, the National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum)
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States. It held an important ...
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order transferring the Renwick building to the Smithsonian Institution for use as a "gallery of arts, craft and design." [ 3 ] After a renovation under the direction of Lloyd E. Herman [ 12 ] it opened in 1972 as the home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's contemporary craft program.
Venus Anadyomene (1927) by Paul Manship greets visitors at the entry to the museum. The Addison Gallery of American Art is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art, organized as a department of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts is an annual public lecture series, hosted by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., based on topics in the fine arts. Established in 1949 from an endowed gift from Ailsa Mellon Bruce and her brother, Paul Mellon , the series held its first lecture in 1952.