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The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the
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, 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. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by
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, Ailsa Mellon Bruce,
Lessing J. Rosenwald Lessing Julius Rosenwald (February 10, 1891 – June 24, 1979) was an American businessman, a collector of rare books and art, a chess patron, and a philanthropist. Biography Born in Chicago, Lessing J. Rosenwald was the eldest son of Julius R ...
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Samuel Henry Kress Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian R ...
, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener,
Joseph E. Widener Joseph Early Widener (August 19, 1871 – October 26, 1943) was a wealthy American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A major figure in thoroughbred horse racing, he was head of New ...
, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder. The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by
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, and the Sculpture Garden. The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. It is one of the largest museums in North America. For the breadth, scope, and magnitude of its collections, the National Gallery is widely considered to be one of the greatest museums in the United States of America, often ranking alongside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the
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in Chicago, Illinois, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Of the top three art museums in the United States by annual visitors, it is the only one that has no admission fee. In 2021 it attracted 1,704,606 visitors, and ranked fifth on the list of most visited art museums in the world.


History


Origins

Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh banker and
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from 1921 until 1932, began gathering a private collection of old master paintings and sculptures during World War I. During the late 1920s, Mellon decided to direct his collecting efforts towards the establishment of a new national gallery for the United States. In 1930, partly for tax reasons, Mellon formed the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, which was to be the legal owner of works intended for the gallery. In 1930–1931, the Trust made its first major acquisition, 21 paintings from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as part of the
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, including such masterpieces as Raphael's '' Alba Madonna,'' Titian's '' Venus with a Mirror'', and
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''. In 1929 Mellon had initiated contact with the recently appointed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
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. Mellon was appointed in 1931 as a Commissioner of the Institution's National Gallery of Art. When the director of the Gallery retired, Mellon asked Abbot not to appoint a successor, as he proposed to endow a new building with funds for expansion of the collections. However, Mellon's trial for tax evasion, centering on the Trust and the Hermitage paintings, caused the plan to be modified. In 1935, Mellon announced in '' The Washington Star'' his intention to establish a new gallery for old masters, separate from the Smithsonian. When asked by Abbot, he explained that the project was in the hands of the Trust and that its decisions were partly dependent on "the attitude of the Government towards the gift". In January 1937, Mellon formally offered to create the new Gallery. On his birthday, 24 March 1937, an Act of Congress accepted the collection and building funds (provided through the Trust), and approved the construction of a museum on the National Mall. The new gallery was to be effectively self-governing, not controlled by the Smithsonian, but took the old name "National Gallery of Art" while the Smithsonian's gallery would be renamed the "National Collection of Fine Arts" (now the
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).


Construction and later history

The museum stands on the former site of the
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, where in 1881 a disgruntled office seeker,
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, shot President
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(see James A. Garfield assassination). The station was demolished in 1908 because it did not conform to the McMillan Plan for the Mall. In 1918, temporary war buildings were constructed on the site; these were demolished by 1921 to construct the foundation of the
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, which was never completed. The site was then reassigned to the new National Gallery of Art. Designed by architect John Russell Pope, the new structure was completed and accepted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of the American people on March 17, 1941. At the time of its inception it was the largest marble structure in the world. Neither Mellon nor Pope lived to see the museum completed; both died in late August 1937, only two months after excavation had begun. As anticipated by Mellon, the creation of the National Gallery encouraged the donation of other substantial art collections by a number of private donors. Founding benefactors included such individuals as
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,
Samuel H. Kress Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. variety store, five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collection ...
, Rush H. Kress, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Chester Dale,
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Lessing Julius Rosenwald (February 10, 1891 – June 24, 1979) was an American businessman, a collector of rare books and art, a chess patron, and a philanthropist. Biography Born in Chicago, Lessing J. Rosenwald was the eldest son of Julius R ...
and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. The Gallery's East Building was constructed in the 1970s on much of the remaining land left over from the original congressional action. Andrew Mellon's children,
Paul Mellon Paul Mellon (June 11, 1907 – February 1, 1999) was an American philanthropist and an owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall ...
and Ailsa Mellon Bruce, funded the building. Designed by architect I. M. Pei, the contemporary structure was completed in 1978 and was opened on June 1 of that year by President Jimmy Carter. The new building was built to house the Museum's collection of modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints, as well as study and research centers and offices. The design received a National Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1981. The final addition to the complex is the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. Completed and opened to the public on May 23, 1999, the location provides an outdoor setting for exhibiting a number of large pieces from the Museum's contemporary sculpture collection. In 2011, an extensive refurbishment and renovation of the French galleries were undertaken. As part of the celebration of the reopening of this wing, organist Alexander Frey performed 4 sold-out recitals of music of France in one weekend in the French Gallery.


Operations

The National Gallery of Art is supported through a private-public partnership. The United States federal government provides funds, through annual appropriations, to support the museum's operations and maintenance. All artwork, as well as special programs, are provided through private donations and funds. The museum is not part of the Smithsonian Institution. Noted directors of the National Gallery have included
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(1938-1956), John Walker (1956–1968), and J. Carter Brown (1968–1993). Earl A. "Rusty" Powell III was named director in 1993. In March 2019 he was succeeded by
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, past director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The museum hired
Evelyn Carmen Ramos Evelyn Carmen Ramos (also referred to as E. Carmen Ramos) is the first woman and the first person of color to be the chief curatorial and conservation officer at the National Gallery of Art. Education Ramos received a bachelor's degree in Art Hi ...
, the first woman and the first person of color to be the chief curatorial and conservation officer, in 2021. The president of the museum is billionaire businessman
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and its chairperson is Sharon Rockefeller. Entry to both buildings of the National Gallery of Art is free of charge. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. It is closed on December 25 and January 1. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Gallery was largely closed to the public. However, visitors were able to schedule appointments to access the west building in small numbers.


Architecture

The museum comprises two buildings: the West Building (1941) and the East Building (1978), linked by an underground passage. The West Building, composed of pink Tennessee marble, was designed in 1937 by architect John Russell Pope in a neoclassical style (as is Pope's other notable building in Washington, D.C., the Jefferson Memorial). Designed in the form of an elongated H, the building is centered on a domed rotunda modeled on the interior of the
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in Rome. Extending east and west from the rotunda, a pair of skylit sculpture halls provide its main circulation spine. Bright garden courts provide a counterpoint to the long main axis of the building. The West Building has an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures by European masters from the medieval period through the late 19th century, as well as pre-20th century works by American artists. Highlights of the collection include many paintings by Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci. In contrast, the design of the East Building, by architect
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, is geometrical, dividing the trapezoidal shape of the site into two triangles: one contains public galleries, and the other houses a library, offices, and a study center. The triangles establish a motif that is echoed throughout the building, realized in every dimension. The East Building's central feature is a high atrium designed as an open interior court that is enclosed by a sculptural space spanning . The atrium is centered on the same axis that forms the circulation spine for the West Building and is constructed in the same Tennessee marble. However, in 2005 the joints attaching the marble panels to the walls began to show signs of strain, creating a risk that panels might fall onto visitors below. In 2008, NGA officials decided that it had become necessary to remove and reinstall all of the panels. The renovation was completed in 2016. The East Building focuses on
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and contemporary art, with a collection including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol,
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, Alexander Calder, a 1977 mural by Robert Motherwell and works by many other artists. The East Building also contains the main offices of the NGA and a large research facility, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Among the highlights of the East Building in 2012 was an exhibition of
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's ''The Stations of the Cross'' series of 14 black and white paintings (1958–66). Newman painted them after he had recovered from a heart attack; they are usually regarded as the peak of his achievement. The series has also been seen as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. The two buildings are connected by a walkway beneath 4th street, called "the Concourse" on the museum's map. In 2008, the National Gallery of Art commissioned American artist
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to transform the Concourse into an artistic installation. Today, ''Multiverse'' is the largest and most complex light sculpture by Villareal featuring approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED nodes that run through channels along the entire -long space. The concourse also includes the food court and a gift shop. The final element of the National Gallery of Art complex, the Sculpture Garden was completed in 1999 after more than 30 years of planning. To the west of the West Building, on the opposite side of Seventh Street, the Sculpture Garden was designed by landscape architect Laurie Olin as an outdoor gallery for monumental modern sculpture. The Sculpture Garden contains plantings of Native American species of canopy and flowering trees, shrubs, ground covers, and perennials. A circular reflecting pool and fountain form the center of its design, which arching pathways of granite and crushed stone complement. (The pool becomes an ice-skating rink during the winter.) The sculptures exhibited in the surrounding landscaped area include pieces by
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, David Smith, Mark Di Suvero,
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, Sol LeWitt, Tony Smith, Roxy Paine,
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, and
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Renovations

The NGA's West Building was renovated from 2007 to 2009. Although some galleries closed for periods of time, others remained open.Boyle, Katherine and Parker, Lonnae O'Neal. "National Gallery of Art Announces $30 Million Renovation to East Building." ''Washington Post.'' March 12, 2013.
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After congressional testimony that the East Building suffered from "systematic structural failures", NGA adopted a Master Renovations Plan in 1999. This plan established the timeline for closing the building, and planned for the renovation of the electronic security systems, elevators, and
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. Space between the ceilings of existing galleries and the building's skylights (which was never completed when the building was constructed in 1978) would be renovated into two, high, hexagonal Tower Galleries. The galleries would have a combined of space and will be lit by
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. A rooftop sculpture garden would also be added. NGA officials said that the Tower Galleries would probably house modern art, and the creation of a distinct " Rothko Room" was possible. Beginning in 2011, NGA undertook an $85 million restoration of the East Building's façade.Kelly, John. "Why National Gallery's East Building Shed Its Pink Marble Skin." ''Washington Post.'' February 21, 2012.
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The East Building is clad in thick pink marble panels. The panels are held about away from the wall by
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anchors. Gravity holds the panel in the bottom anchors (which are placed at each corner), while "button head" anchors (stainless steel posts with large, flat heads) at the top corners keep the panel upright. Mortar was used on the gravity anchors to level the stones. Joints of flexible colored
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were placed between the panels. This system was designed to allow each panel to hang independent of its neighbors, and NGA officials say they are not aware of any other panel system like it. However, many panels were accidentally mortared together. Seasonal heating and cooling of the façade, infiltration of moisture, and shrinkage of the building's structural concrete by over time caused extensive damage to the façade. In 2005, regular maintenance showed that some panels were cracked or significantly damaged, while others leaned by more than out from the building (threatening to fall). The NGA hired the structural engineering firm Robert Silman Associates to determine the cause of the problem.Dietsch, Deborah K. "National Gallery of Art's Famed East Building Gets a Facelift." ''Washington Business Journal.'' February 3, 2012.
Accessed 2013-03-13.
Although the Gallery began raising private funds to fix the issue, eventually federal funding was used to repair the building. In 2012, the NGA chose a joint venture, Balfour Beatty/Smoot, to complete the repairs.
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aluminum anchors replaced the stainless steel ones, and the top corner anchors were moved to the center of the top edge of each stone. The neoprene joints were removed and new colored
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gaskets installed, and leveling screws rather than mortar used to keep the panels square. Work began in November 2011, and originally was scheduled to end in 2014. By February 2012, however, the contractor said work on the façade would end in late 2013, and site restoration would take place in 2014. The East Building remained open throughout the project. In March 2013, the National Gallery of Art announced a $68.4 million renovation to the East Building. This included $38.4 million to refurbish the interior mechanical plant of the structure,Boyle, Katherine. "National Gallery Sees Long-Term Benefit in Long Closing of East Building." ''Washington Post.'' March 13, 2013.
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and $30 million to create new exhibition space. Because the angular interior space of the East Building made it impossible to close off galleries, the renovation required all but the atrium and offices to close by December 2013. The structure remained closed for three years. The architectural firm of Hartman-Cox oversaw both aspects of the renovation. A group of benefactors — which included Victoria and Roger Sant, Mitchell and Emily Rales, and David Rubenstein — privately financed the renovation. The '' Washington Post'' reported that the donation was one of the largest the NGA had received in a decade. NGA staff said that they would use the closure to conserve artwork, plan purchases, and develop exhibitions. Plans for renovating conservation, construction, exhibition prep, groundskeeping, office, storage, and other internal facilities were also ready, but would not be implemented for many years.


Buildings

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of the West Building dome (2008) File:DCgallerywest.jpg, West Building sculpture gallery (2007) File:Nga, cortile ovest.JPG, West Building garden court (2010) File:National Gallery of Art map.jpg, Satellite image of National Gallery of Art grounds and surrounding streets (2002) File:Multiverse light sculpture - HDR.jpg, Moving walkway and
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in concourse beneath 4th Street connecting East and West Buildings (2016) File:West Building of the National Gallery of Art.JPG, Center of West Building plaza, looking west towards West Building (2010) File:Fountain - National Gallery of Art's West Building.JPG, Fountain in West Building plaza (2010) File:National Gallery, Concourse - fountain.JPG, View of fountain from concourse beneath West Building plaza (2013) File:NGA-pjt1.jpg, Center of West Building plaza, looking east towards entrance of East Building (2000) File:National Gallery of Art - East Building.JPG, South face of East Building, looking northwest from southeast corner (2010) File:National Gallery of Art DC 2007ex.jpg, Southwest corner of East Building, looking east (2007) File:National-Gallery-of-Art-East-Building-I-M-Pei-National-Mall-Washington-DC-Apr-2014.jpg, Southwest corner of East Building during renovation, looking northeast (2014) File:East Building of the National Gallery of Art, atrium.jpg, East Building atrium (2007) File:National Gallery of Art DC 2007i.jpg, East Building atrium (2007)


Collection

The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's '' Maesta'', the tondo of the '' Adoration of the Magi'' by Fra Angelico and
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work on the same subject, Giorgione's ''
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'', '' Ginevra de' Benci'' (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael. The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of '' Saint Martin and the Beggar,'' by
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, and works by Matthias Grünewald,
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, Rogier van der Weyden,
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Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...
, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya,
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, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the ''Chalice'' of
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of St-Denis and a collection of work by
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and
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. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled ''
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'', (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of ''
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(two other versions are in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
and the Detroit Institute of Arts). The National Gallery's print collection comprises 75,000 prints, in addition to rare illustrated books. It includes collections of works by
Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
,
Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...
, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Blake, Mary Cassatt,
Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, ''The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dr ...
, Jasper Johns, and
Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...
. The collection began with 400 prints donated by five collectors in 1941. In 1942,
Joseph E. Widener Joseph Early Widener (August 19, 1871 – October 26, 1943) was a wealthy American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A major figure in thoroughbred horse racing, he was head of New ...
donated his entire collection of nearly 2,000 works. In 1943, Lessing Rosenwald donated his collection of 8,000 old master and modern prints; between 1943 and 1979, he donated almost 14,000 more works. In 2008, Dave and Reba White Williams donated their collection of more than 5,200 American prints. In 2013, the NGA purchased from a private French collection
Gerard van Honthorst Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch: ''Gerrit van Honthorst''; 4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickn ...
's 1623 painting, ''The Concert'', which had not been publicly viewed since 1795. After initially displaying the ''The Concert'' in a special installation in the West Building, the NGA moved the painting to a permanent display in the museum's Dutch and Flemish galleries. Art experts estimated the sale price of ''The Concert'' at $20 million, though the NGA did not reveal the amount that it had paid.Vogel, Caro
"National Gallery Acquires a van Honthorst Masterwork."
''New York Times.'' November 21, 2013. Accessed 2013-11-22.


Highlights of the collection

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Annunciation The Annunciation (from Latin '), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the biblical tale of the announcement by the ange ...
'', van Eyck, c. 1434 File:Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of a Lady - Google Art Project.jpg, Rogier van der Weyden, ''
Portrait of a Lady ''The Portrait of a Lady'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial (literature), serial in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and ''Macmillan's Magazine'' in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels an ...
,'' c. 1460 File:Giorgione - Adoration of the Shepherds - National Gallery of Art.jpg, Giorgione, '' Adoration of the Shepherds,'' c. 1500 File:Raffaello Madonna Cowper.jpg, Raphael, '' Cowper Madonna'', 1504–05 File:Raphael - Saint George and the Dragon - Google Art Project.jpg, ''
Saint George and the Dragon In a legend, Saint Georgea soldier venerated in Christianitydefeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers. When they ran out of livestock and trinkets for the dragon, they started giving up a human tr ...
'' by Raphael, 1506 File:Tizian 080.jpg, Giorgione and Titian, ''Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman'', c. 1507 File:Raphael - The Alba Madonna - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Alba Madonna'' by Raphael, 1510 File:Feastofthegods.jpg,
Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...
and Titian, ''
The Feast of the Gods ''The Feast of the Gods'' (Italian: ''Il festino degli dei'') is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, with substantial additions in stages to the left and center landscape by Dosso Dossi and Titian. It is one of the ...
,'' c. 1514 File:Titian - Venus with a Mirror - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Venus with a Mirror'' by Titian, c. 1555 File:El Greco 042.jpg,
El Greco Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
, '' Laocoön'', 1604–1616 File:Nicolas Poussin - The Assumption of the Virgin.JPG,
Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...
, ''The Assumption of the Virgin'', c. 1626 File:Rembrandt van Rijn - The Mill - Google Art Project.jpg, Rembrandt van Rijn, ''The Mill'', 1648 File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg, Rembrandt van Rijn, '' Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar'', 1659 File:Johannes Vermeer - A Lady Writing - Google Art Project.jpg, Johannes Vermeer, ''
A Lady Writing a Letter ''A Lady Writing a Letter'' (also known as ''A Lady Writing'') is an oil on canvas painting attributed to 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is believed to have been completed by artist during his mature phase, in the mid-to-late 1660 ...
,'' 1665-1666 File:Fragonard, The Reader.jpg, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, '' A Young Girl Reading'', c. 1776 File:Thomas Gainsborough - Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan .jpg, Thomas Gainsborough, '' Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan'', 1787 File:Ingres Marcotte d-Argenteuil.jpg,
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ...
, ''Marcotte d'Argenteuil'', 1810 File:John Constable - Wivenhoe Park, Essex - Google Art Project.jpg,
John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...
,
Wivenhoe Park Wivenhoe Park is a landscaped green space of more than at the eastern edge of Colchester, England. It is the site of Wivenhoe House, a four-star hotel, based in an eighteenth-century Grade II listed house. Wivenhoe House is also home to the Edg ...
, 1816 File:Columbus and His Son at La Rábida.JPG, Eugène Delacroix, ''Columbus and His Son at La Rábida'', 1838 File:The Veiled Nun.jpg, Italian, ''
The Veiled Nun ''The Veiled Nun'' is a marble bust depicting a female figure that was sculpted by an unidentified Italian workshop in c. 1863. Despite its name, the woman depicted is not a nun. The bust was popular with visitors to the Corcoran Gallery of Art i ...
'', c. 1863 File:Édouard Manet - Le Vieux Musicien.jpg, Édouard Manet, ''
The Old Musician ''The Old Musician'' is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet ...
'', 1862 File:Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son - Google Art Project.jpg, Claude Monet, ''
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son ''Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son'', sometimes known as ''The Stroll'' (French: ''La Promenade'') is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean ...
'', 1875 File:Edouard Manet 039.jpg, Édouard Manet, '' The Plum,'' 1878 File:Claude Monet - Monet's garden at Vétheuil (1880).jpg, Claude Monet, ''The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil'', 1880 File:Vincent van Gogh - National Gallery of Art.JPG, Vincent van Gogh, ''
Self-portrait A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...
'', August 1889 File:Paul Gauguin - Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake.jpg, Paul Gauguin, ''
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake ''Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake'', also known as ''Self-Portrait'', is an 1889 oil on wood, oil-on-wood painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, which represents his late Brittany period in the fishing village of Le Pouldu in northwestern F ...
,'' 1889 File:Paul Cézanne 088.jpg,
Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...
, ''Boy in a Red Waistcoat,'' 1888–1890 File:Girl in White by Vincent Van Gogh - NGA.jpg, Vincent van Gogh, '' Girl in White'', 1890 File:Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight.JPG, Claude Monet, ''Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight'', 1894 File:Matisse-Open-Window.jpg, Henri Matisse, '' Open Window, Collioure'', 1905 File:Family of Saltimbanques.JPG, Pablo Picasso, ''
Family of Saltimbanques ''Family of Saltimbanques'' (French: ') is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. The work depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. It is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Peri ...
'', 1905 File:The Equatorial Jungle.JPG, Henri Rousseau, ''The Equatorial Jungle'', 1909 File:Francis Picabia, 1912, The Procession, Seville, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.jpg,
Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism ...
, ''The Procession, Seville'', 1912 File:Albert Gleizes, 1912-13, Les Joueurs de football (Football Players), oil on canvas, 225.4 x 183 cm, National Gallery of Art.jpg, Albert Gleizes, '' Les Joueurs de football (Football Players)'', 1912–13 File:Pablo Picasso, 1918, Still Life, oil on canvas, 97.2 x 130.2 cm, National Gallery of Art.jpg, Pablo Picasso, ''Still Life'', 1918


Selected highlights from the American collection

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John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. Afte ...
, ''
Watson and the Shark ''Watson and the Shark'' is an oil painting by the American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba. Copley, then living in London, painted three versions. The 17 ...
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Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Charles Stuart ( Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washi ...
, ''
The Skater ''The Skater'' is a 1782 oil on canvas portrait of William Grant (Master of the Rolls), Sir William Grant by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Painted while Stuart was living in London, it was the work that first brought the artist broad recogn ...
'', 1782 File:Edward Savage - The Washington Family - Google Art Project.jpg, Edward Savage, '' The Washington Family'' 1789-1796 File:Edward Hicks - Peaceable Kingdom.jpg, Edward Hicks, ''Peaceable Kingdom'', c. 1834 File:Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Childhood, 1842 (National Gallery of Art).jpg, Thomas Cole, ''
The Voyage of Life ''The Voyage of Life'' is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, ''Childhood'', ''Yout ...
:'' ''Childhood'' File:Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Youth, 1842 (National Gallery of Art).jpg, Thomas Cole, ''
The Voyage of Life ''The Voyage of Life'' is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, ''Childhood'', ''Yout ...
:'' ''Youth'' File:Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Manhood, 1842 (National Gallery of Art).jpg, Thomas Cole, ''
The Voyage of Life ''The Voyage of Life'' is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, ''Childhood'', ''Yout ...
:'' ''Manhood'' File:Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Old Age, 1842 (National Gallery of Art).jpg, Thomas Cole, ''
The Voyage of Life ''The Voyage of Life'' is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, ''Childhood'', ''Yout ...
:'' ''Old Age'' File:A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountans (Crawford Notch)-1839-Thomas Cole.jpg, Thomas Cole, ''A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch),'' 1839 File:George Inness - The Lackawanna Valley - Google Art Project.jpg,
George Inness George Inness (May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894) was a prominent United States, American landscape painting, landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced b ...
, ''
The Lackawanna Valley ''The Lackawanna Valley'' is a c. 1855 painting by the American artist George Inness. Painted in oil on canvas, it is one of Inness' most well-known works.Cikovsky, Quick, 74 It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...
,'' 1855 File:Thomas Eakins - The Biglin Brothers Racing.jpg, Thomas Eakins, ''The Biglin Brothers Racing,'' 1873 File:Winslow Homer - Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) - Google Art Project.jpg, Winslow Homer, ''
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) ''Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)'' is an oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the ''Gloucester'' chopping through that city's harbor under "a fair wind" (Homer's original title). Inside the boat are a man, three b ...
'', 1873–1876 File:El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) Frederic Edwin Church.jpg,
Frederic Edwin Church Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, ...
, ''Morning in The Tropics'', (1877) File:Cassat - The Loge NGA.jpg, Mary Cassatt, ''The Loge,'' 1882 File:Mother and Child - Cassatt 1905.jpg, Mary Cassatt, ''
Woman with a Sunflower ''Woman with a Sunflower'' is a 1905 oil painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC since 1963. ''Woman with a Sunflower'' was among many paintings by Cassatt whi ...
'', 1905 File:John Singer Sargent - Street in Venice (NGAi).jpg,
John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more ...
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Street in Venice ''Street in Venice'' (or ''A Street Scene in Venice'') is a c. 1882 panel painting, oil on wood painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Painted in a Post-Impressionism, post-impressionist manner, it is set in a quiet b ...
,'' 1889 File:Albert Pinkham Ryder 004.jpg,
Albert Pinkham Ryder Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of ...
, ''Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens,'' 1888-1891 File:A Friendly Call.JPG,
William Merritt Chase William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design. ...
, ''
A Friendly Call ''A Friendly Call'' is an oil on canvas painting executed in 1895 by the American painter William Merritt Chase. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1943 as part of the Chester Dale Chester Dale (May 3, 1883 ...
,'' 1895 File:Snow in New York.jpg, Robert Henri, ''Snow in New York,'' 1902 File:Both Members of This Club George Bellows.jpeg,
George Bellows George Wesley Bellows (August 12 or August 19, 1882 – January 8, 1925) was an American realism, American realist painting, painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art ...
, ''
Both Members of This Club ''Both Members of This Club'' is an oil painting by George Bellows. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Washington DC. It dates to 1909 and measures . The Gallery writes, ''Both Members of This Club'' was inspired by the ...
'' 1909 File:Childe Hassam - Allies Day.jpg, Childe Hassam, ''Allies Day, May 1917'', 1917


See also

* Collections of the National Gallery of Art * List of original Hermitage paintings in the National Gallery of Art *
Architecture of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, has a unique and diverse architectural history. Encompassing government, monumental, commercial, and residential buildings, D.C. is home to some of the country's most famous and popular structur ...


References


Further reading

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David Cannadine Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton Unive ...
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Mellon: An American Life
', Knopf, 2006, *Neil Harris,

', University of Chicago Press, 2013, *Andrew Kelly, ''Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts, American Culture, and the Index of American Design,'' University Press of Kentucky, 2015. *National Gallery of Art, ''Highlights from the National Gallery of Art'' Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2016, ISBN 9780894683992 *"The National Gallery of Art, Washington", special number of ''Connaissance des Arts'', Société Français de Promotion Artistique (2000)


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