- The location of the National Gallery of Art is situated on the spot where a former railroad station once stood called the “Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station.”
- Opened in 1941 as an art gallery “for the nation”, Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art boasts one of the country’s largest collections of Western art and...
- The National Gallery of Art has the most classic collection in D.C., with a focus mainly on European and American paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, and more.
- National Gallery of Art Hires First Curator of Latinx Art. The D.C. museum also appointed a new chief of conservation. By. Maximilíano Durón.
- In 1936 Mellon offered to both fund the National Gallery of Art and donate his personal collection to get it started. Mellon is the real MVP!
- If you are intrigued, let’s know these some very interesting and amazing facts about this Gallery of Art: National Art Gallery Washington Image: c2.staticflickr.com.
- Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art was established in 1937 after then secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, gave his sizable art...
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- ...Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Greeley Abbot, and in 1931 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Institution's National Gallery of Art.
- Along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the National Gallery of Art...