Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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.
The Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States in 1963. Planned by Jacqueline Kennedy and André Malraux, it was first displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with around 2,000 dignatories including John F. Kennedy at the first showing, followed by 500,000 people over the next three weeks.
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.
The fountain shares a Classical architecture style with [6] and sits close by to the National Gallery of Art where Mellon donated his art collection, as well as funding to build the art museum. This memorial fountain cost $300,000, which was donated by Mellon's friends through the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Committee.
The Arts Club of Washington is a private club to promote the Arts in Washington, D.C. Founded by Bertha Noyes in May 1916, its first president was Henry Kirke Bush-Brown ; Mathilde Mueden Leisenring was among its original members, [ 1 ] as were Susan Brown Chase , Catharine Carter Critcher , Lola Sleeth Miller , Bertha E. Perrie , and Mary Gine ...
Madonna and Child (Perugino, Washington) Madonna and Child (Gentile da Fabriano, Washington) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist; Magdalene at a Mirror; Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria; The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (Ribera, 1634) Masked Ball at the Opera House; The Maas at Dordrecht; May Night (Willard Metcalf ...