National Gallery of Art - West Building (Washington, D.C.)

USA / District of Columbia / Washington / Washington, D.C. / U.S. Route 50 (Constitution Avenue Northwest)
 Neoclassical (architecture), interesting place, art museum / art gallery, 1941_construction
6th St and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565

www.nga.gov/

The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W. Mellon plus major art works donated by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Italian art contributions from Samuel Henry Kress, and more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, pieces of decorative art, and porcelains from Joseph E. Widener. The building was designed by John Russell Pope, completed by Eggers & Higgins after his untimely death in 1937.

As a result of bequests such as these, the National Gallery today houses one of the finest collections of Western painting and sculpture in the world.

sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DC-01-ML16
usmodernist.org/PA/PP-1941-08.pdf
 Add place (company, shop, etc.) to this building
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   38°53'28"N   77°1'11"W
This article is protected.

Comments

  • I been this museum in 2009 with 5th grade field trip.