- 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 in Washington DC has one of the finest collections of Dutch and Flemish art in the world.
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- Along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the National Gallery of Art...
- 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!
- 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.
- ...Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Greeley Abbot, and in 1931 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Institution's National Gallery of Art.
- Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art was established in 1937 after then secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, gave his sizable art...
- After visiting the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in the early 1980s, French Pres.
- Earl A. “Rusty” Powell III (since 1993) is the current director. Entry to both buildings of the National Gallery of Art is free of charge.