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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.
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.
Giovanni Cariani, A Concert, oil on canvas, 92 x 130 cm, c. 1518–1520.National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490 –1547), also known as Giovanni Busi or Il Cariani, was an Italian painter of the high-Renaissance, active in Venice and the Venetian mainland, including Bergamo, thought to be his native city.
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.
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. Herbert Vogel (August 16, 1922 – July 22, 2012) and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), once described as "proletarian art collectors," [1] worked as civil servants in New York City for more than a half-century while amassing what has been called one of the most important post-1960s art collections in the United States, [2] mostly of minimalist and conceptual art. [3]
The Jefferson Memorial, a memorial to Thomas Jefferson built between 1939 and 1943. John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the ...
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.
Ross has exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, [11] PS1, [9] Dwan Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [12] and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. [13] His artworks are collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art , Centre Georges Pompidou , and Los Angeles County Museum of Art , among other institutions.