Museum of Natural History and National Gallery of Art

National art museum in Washington, D.C., United States

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National Gallery of Art is located in Washington, D.C.

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National Gallery of Art is located in the United States

National Gallery of Art

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Established 1937; 85 years ago  (1937)
Location National Mall betwixt 3rd and ninth Streets at Constitution Artery NW, Washington, DC, 20565, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°53′29″N 77°01′12″Due west  /  38.89139°N 77.02000°Due west  / 38.89139; -77.02000 Coordinates: 38°53′29″N 77°01′12″W  /  38.89139°Northward 77.02000°W  / 38.89139; -77.02000
Collection size 75,000 prints
Visitors 1,704,606 (2021) – ranked 6th globally[1]
Director Kaywin Feldman
President Mitchell Rales
Chairperson Sharon Rockefeller
Public transit access WMATA Metro Logo small.svg Washington Metro:
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Virginia Railway Express L'Enfant
Metrobus: 4th Street and 7th Street NW
DC Circulator: 4th Street and Madison Bulldoze; 9th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Website nga.gov

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open up to the public and free of accuse, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people past a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew Westward. Mellon donated a substantial art drove and funds for construction. The core drove includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's drove of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Center Ages to the present, including the simply 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 Edifice, designed by I. Chiliad. Pei, and the half-dozen.1-acre (25,000 one thousandii) 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 latitude, telescopic, and magnitude of its collections, the National Gallery is widely considered to be one of the greatest museums in the U.s. of America, often ranking alongside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Mod Art in New York City, the Art Plant of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Of the top three fine art museums in the United states by annual visitors, information technology is the only one that has no admission fee. in 2021 it attracted 1,704,606 visitors, and ranked fifth on the listing of most visited fine art museums in the world.[ii]

History [edit]

Origins [edit]

Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh broker and Treasury Secretarial assistant from 1921 until 1932, began gathering a private drove of old master paintings and sculptures during Earth State of war I. During the late 1920s, Mellon decided to direct his collecting efforts towards the institution of a new national gallery for the U.s..

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 conquering, 21 paintings from the Hermitage Museum in Saint petersburg as function of the Soviet auction of Hermitage paintings, including such masterpieces as Raphael's Alba Madonna, Titian's Venus with a Mirror, and Jan van Eyck's Declaration.

In 1929 Mellon had initiated contact with the recently appointed Secretarial assistant of the Smithsonian Establishment, Charles Greeley Abbot. Mellon was appointed in 1931 every bit a Commissioner of the Institution's National Gallery of Art. When the director of the Gallery retired, Mellon asked Abbot non to appoint a successor, as he proposed to endow a new building with funds for expansion of the collections.

All the same, Mellon's trial for taxation evasion, centering on the Trust and the Hermitage paintings, caused the programme 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 past Abbot, he explained that the projection was in the easily 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 altogether, 24 March 1937, an Act of Congress accepted the collection and edifice funds (provided through the Trust), and approved the construction of a museum on the National Mall.

The new gallery was to be finer self-governing, not controlled by the Smithsonian, but took the one-time name "National Gallery of Art" while the Smithsonian'south gallery would exist renamed the "National Collection of Fine Arts" (at present the Smithsonian American Art Museum).[3] [four] [5]

Construction and later history [edit]

The museum stands on the quondam site of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, where in 1881 a disgruntled office seeker, Charles Guiteau, shot President James Garfield (see James A. Garfield assassination).[6] The station was demolished in 1908 considering information technology did not conform to the McMillan Plan for the Mall. In 1918, temporary war buildings were constructed on the site; these were demolished past 1921 to construct the foundation of the George Washington Memorial Building, which was never completed. The site was and then reassigned to the new National Gallery of Art.[seven]

Designed past builder John Russell Pope, the new construction was completed and accustomed past 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 construction in the earth. Neither Mellon nor Pope lived to meet the museum completed; both died in late Baronial 1937, only ii months after earthworks had begun.[half dozen]

As anticipated by Mellon, the creation of the National Gallery encouraged the donation of other substantial fine art collections by a number of private donors. Founding benefactors included such individuals as Paul Mellon, Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Chester Dale, Joseph Widener, Lessing J. Rosenwald and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.

The Gallery's East Building was synthetic in the 1970s on much of the remaining land left over from the original congressional action. Andrew Mellon'south children, Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce, funded the building. Designed by builder I. G. Pei, the contemporary structure was completed in 1978 and was opened on June one of that year by President Jimmy Carter. The new edifice was congenital to house the Museum'south collection of modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints, likewise every bit study and research centers and offices. The design received a National Award Honour from the American Institute of Architects in 1981.

The terminal improver 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'south contemporary sculpture collection.

In 2011, an extensive refurbishment and renovation of the French galleries were undertaken. Every bit part of the celebration of the reopening of this wing, organist Alexander Frey performed iv sold-out recitals of music of French republic in one weekend in the French Gallery.

Operations [edit]

The National Gallery of Fine art is supported through a private-public partnership. The The states federal government provides funds, through almanac appropriations, to back up the museum'due south operations and maintenance. All artwork, as well as special programs, are provided through private donations and funds.[8] The museum is non part of the Smithsonian Institution.

Noted directors of the National Gallery take included David East. Finley, Jr. (1938-1956), John Walker (1956–1968), and J. Carter Brown (1968–1993). Earl A. "Rusty" Powell Iii was named manager in 1993. In March 2019 he was succeeded by Kaywin Feldman, past manager and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Fine art.[9] [10] The museum hired Evelyn Carmen Ramos, the first woman and the first person of colour to be the chief curatorial and conservation officer, in 2021.[xi]

The president of the museum is billionaire businessman Mitchell Rales and its chairperson is Sharon Rockefeller.[12]

Entry to both buildings of the National Gallery of Art is complimentary of charge. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. – five p.m. Information technology is closed on December 25 and Jan one.[13]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Gallery was largely airtight to the public. However, visitors were able to schedule appointments to access the west building in modest numbers.[xiv]

Architecture [edit]

Exhibitions in the Due west Building

Exhibitions in the East Edifice

Walkway to Westward Building and Cascade Buffet in National Gallery of Art, Washington.D.C.

The museum comprises two buildings: the West Building (1941) and the Due east Building (1978) linked by an underground passage. The Westward Building, composed of pink Tennessee marble, was designed in 1937 by architect John Russell Pope in a neoclassical style (every bit is Pope's other notable edifice in Washington, D.C., the Jefferson Memorial). Designed in the grade of an elongated H, the edifice is centered on a domed rotunda modeled on the interior of the Pantheon 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 edifice.

Dome of Due west Building, an entrance to permanent Renaissance Fine art collections

Indoor garden court with paired Ionic columns and symmetrical planting beds. Baronial 2021.

The West Building has an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures by European masters from the medieval period through the tardily 19th century, also as pre-20th century works past American artists. Highlights of the collection include many paintings by January Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci.

In contrast, the design of the East Edifice, by builder I. M. Pei, 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 constitute a motif that is echoed throughout the building, realized in every dimension.

The East Building's central feature is a loftier atrium designed as an open interior court that is enclosed by a sculptural space spanning 16,000 sq ft (i,500 thousand2). The atrium is centered on the same centrality that forms the circulation spine for the West Building and is synthetic in the same Tennessee marble.[15]

Withal, in 2005 the joints attaching the marble panels to the walls began to show signs of strain, creating a risk that panels might autumn onto visitors beneath. In 2008, NGA officials decided that it had get necessary to remove and reinstall all of the panels. The renovation was completed in 2016.[xvi]

The Eastward Building focuses on mod and contemporary art, with a collection including works past Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, a 1977 mural by Robert Motherwell and works by many other artists. The East Edifice also contains the primary offices of the NGA and a large research facility, Heart for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Amid the highlights of the E Building in 2012 was an exhibition of Barnett Newman's The Stations of the Cantankerous series of fourteen black and white paintings (1958–66).[17] Newman painted them after he had recovered from a middle attack; they are usually regarded as the top of his achievement.[ citation needed ] The series has also been seen as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.[18]

The two buildings are connected past a walkway beneath 4th street, called "the Concourse" on the museum's map. In 2008, the National Gallery of Art commissioned American artist Leo Villareal to transform the Concourse into an creative installation. Today, Multiverse is the largest and near complex light sculpture by Villareal featuring approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED nodes that run through channels along the entire 200 ft (61 m)-long infinite.[19] The concourse likewise includes the food court and a gift shop.

The concluding element of the National Gallery of Art complex, the Sculpture Garden was completed in 1999 afterwards more than xxx years of planning. To the w of the West Building, on the opposite side of Seventh Street, the 6.i acres (2.five ha) Sculpture Garden was designed by landscape architect Laurie Olin[xx] every bit 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 heart of its design, which arching pathways of granite and crushed stone complement. (The pool becomes an water ice-skating rink during the winter.) The sculptures exhibited in the surrounding landscaped expanse include pieces by Marc Chagall, David Smith, Mark Di Suvero, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt, Tony Smith, Roxy Paine, Joan Miró, Louise Bourgeois, and Hector Guimard.[21]

The lobby of National gallery of Art East Building

Taken at the outside wall of National gallery of Art East Building

Renovations [edit]

The NGA'southward Westward Building was renovated from 2007 to 2009. Although some galleries airtight for periods of time, others remained open up.[22]

Afterwards congressional testimony that the Due east Building suffered from "systematic structural failures", NGA adopted a Primary 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 HVAC.[23] Infinite between the ceilings of existing galleries and the building's skylights (which was never completed when the building was constructed in 1978)[23] would be renovated into two, 23 ft (7.0 one thousand) high, hexagonal Tower Galleries. The galleries would have a combined 12,260 sq ft (1,139 mtwo) of space and volition be lit past skylights. A rooftop sculpture garden would also exist added. NGA officials said that the Tower Galleries would probably firm mod art, and the creation of a distinct "Rothko Room" was possible.

Beginning in 2011, NGA undertook an $85 million restoration of the East Edifice'south façade.[24] The Eastward Building is clad in three in (seven.6 cm) thick pink marble panels. The panels are held about ii in (five.one cm) away from the wall by stainless steel anchors. Gravity holds the console in the bottom anchors (which are placed at each corner), while "button caput" anchors (stainless steel posts with large, flat heads) at the meridian corners keep the panel upright. Mortar was used on the gravity anchors to level the stones. Joints of flexible colored neoprene were placed between the panels. This system was designed to allow each panel to hang contained of its neighbors, and NGA officials say they are not aware of any other panel arrangement similar it.

However, many panels were accidentally mortared together. Seasonal heating and cooling of the façade, infiltration of moisture, and shrinkage of the building'southward structural concrete by 2 in (5.ane cm) over time caused extensive damage to the façade. In 2005, regular maintenance showed that some panels were croaky or significantly damaged, while others leaned past more than ane in (2.5 cm) out from the building (threatening to fall).

The NGA hired the structural engineering firm Robert Silman Associates to decide the cause of the problem.[25] Although the Gallery began raising private funds to fix the issue,[25] eventually federal funding was used to repair the building.[24] In 2012, the NGA chose a joint venture, Balfour Beatty/Smoot, to complete the repairs. Anodized aluminum anchors replaced the stainless steel ones, and the pinnacle corner anchors were moved to the center of the summit edge of each rock. The neoprene joints were removed and new colored silicone gaskets installed, and leveling screws rather than mortar used to go on the panels square. Work began in Nov 2011,[25] and originally was scheduled to end in 2014.[24] By February 2012, however, the contractor said piece of work on the façade would end in late 2013, and site restoration would take place in 2014.[25] The Due east Building remained open up throughout the project.[22]

In March 2013, the National Gallery of Art announced a $68.4 million renovation to the E Building. This included $38.4 million to refurbish the interior mechanical constitute of the construction,[23] and $30 million to create new exhibition space.[22] Considering the angular interior space of the Eastward Edifice made information technology incommunicable to close off galleries,[23] the renovation required all but the atrium and offices to shut past December 2013. The structure remained closed for three years. The architectural firm of Hartman-Cox oversaw both aspects of the renovation.[23]

A grouping 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 i of the largest the NGA had received in a decade.[22] NGA staff said that they would employ the closure to conserve artwork, programme purchases, and develop exhibitions. Plans for renovating conservation, construction, exhibition prep, groundskeeping, office, storage, and other internal facilities were besides ready, just would non be implemented for many years.[23] [26]

Buildings [edit]

Collection [edit]

Gerard van Honthorst's monumental 1623 masterwork, The Concert, was acquired by the NGA in 2013 and went on display for the first fourth dimension in 218 years.

The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden brandish European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection engagement from the Centre Ages to the nowadays. The Italian Renaissance drove includes ii panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nascency, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the but 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 El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works equally the Beaker of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the 2 original sets of Thomas Cole's serial of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the kickoff set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).

The National Gallery's impress collection comprises 75,000 prints, in addition to rare illustrated books. Information technology includes collections of works past Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Blake, Mary Cassatt, Edvard Munch, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. The collection began with 400 prints donated by five collectors in 1941. In 1942, Joseph Eastward. Widener donated his entire collection of near 2,000 works. In 1943, Lessing Rosenwald donated his collection of viii,000 old master and modern prints; between 1943 and 1979, he donated nigh 14,000 more works. In 2008, Dave and Reba White Williams donated their drove of more than 5,200 American prints.[27]

In 2013, the NGA purchased from a private French drove Gerard van Honthorst'south 1623 painting, The Concert, which had not been publicly viewed since 1795. After initially displaying the 1.23 by 2.06 m (4.0 by six.8 ft) 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.[28] Art experts estimated the sale price of The Concert at $20 1000000, though the NGA did not reveal the amount that information technology had paid.[29]

Highlights of the drove [edit]

Selected highlights from the American collection [edit]

See also [edit]

  • Collections of the National Gallery of Art
  • List of original Hermitage paintings in the National Gallery of Art

References [edit]

  1. ^ The Art Newspaper Review, March 28, 2022
  2. ^ The Art Newspaper annual museum visitor survey, published March 28, 2022
  3. ^ Fink, Lois Marie "A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum", Academy of Massachusetts Press (2007) ISBN 978-1-55849-616-3, chapter 3
  4. ^ National Gallery of Fine art website: general introduction Archived December eight, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ National Gallery of Art website: chronology Archived April 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b "National Gallery of Art, West Building". American Architecture. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2 Oct 2011.
  7. ^ "Cultural Mural Inventory: The Mall (Role 2)" (PDF). U.S. National Park Service. 2006. pp. 49, 53, 72. Retrieved 2021-02-22 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  8. ^ "Major Giving FAQS". www.nga.gov . Retrieved 2022-04-10 .
  9. ^ Kerr, Euan, "Mia's director will exit to head National Gallery", Minnesota Public Radio News, December 11, 2018.
  10. ^ McGlone, Peggy, "The National Gallery of Art will have a female director for the kickoff time in its history", The Washington Mail, December eleven, 2018.
  11. ^ Greenberger, Alex (2021-05-13). "Latinx Art Practiced Eastward. Carmen Ramos Named Chief Curator of National Gallery of Fine art". ARTnews.com . Retrieved 2021-08-03 .
  12. ^ Selvin, Claire (2019-09-27). "National Gallery of Fine art Names Darren Walker Trustee, Mitchell Rales Appointed President". ARTnews . Retrieved 2019-09-28 .
  13. ^ "National Gallery of Art". Maps and Hours. 2016-01-12. Archived from the original on 2016-01-03.
  14. ^ "Degas at the Opéra". National Gallery of Fine art. 2020-08-25.
  15. ^ NGA.gov Archived October 3, 2009, at the Wayback Automobile
  16. ^ Leigh, Catesby (Dec 8, 2009). "An Ultramodern Building Shows Signs of Age". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March xi, 2016.
  17. ^ "In The Tower: Barnett Newman". www.nga.gov. Archived from the original on i Feb 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  18. ^ Menachem Wecker (Baronial 1, 2012). "His Cantankerous To Acquit. Barnett Newman Dealt With Suffering in 'Zips'". The Jewish Daily Forward. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  19. ^ "Leo Villareal: Multiverse". www.nga.gov.
  20. ^ "Well-nigh the Gallery". www.nga.gov. Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  21. ^ "Visit: Sculpture Garden". world wide web.nga.gov. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  22. ^ a b c d Boyle, Katherine and Parker, Lonnae O'Neal. "National Gallery of Art Announces $30 Million Renovation to Due east Building." Washington Postal service. March 12, 2013. Archived April 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2013-03-13.
  23. ^ a b c d e f Boyle, Katherine. "National Gallery Sees Long-Term Benefit in Long Closing of Eastward Building." Washington Post. March 13, 2013. Archived January 6, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2013-03-22.
  24. ^ a b c Kelly, John. "Why National Gallery's East Building Shed Its Pink Marble Skin." Washington Post. Feb 21, 2012. Archived January half dozen, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2013-03-13.
  25. ^ a b c d Dietsch, Deborah M. "National Gallery of Fine art's Famed Eastward Edifice Gets a Facelift." Washington Business Journal. Feb 3, 2012. Archived Oct xviii, 2015, at the Wayback Automobile Accessed 2013-03-13.
  26. ^ "The CIVITAS Chronicles". traditional-building.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23.
  27. ^ "Prints". Nga.gov. 2013-06-19. Archived from the original on 2013-12-21. Retrieved 2013-12-22 .
  28. ^ Boyle, Katherine. "National Gallery Acquires 'The Concert' by Dutch Golden Age Painter Honthorst." Washington Post. Nov 22, 2013. Archived Baronial 29, 2017, at the Wayback Motorcar Accessed 2013-11-22.
  29. ^ Vogel, Carol "National Gallery Acquires a van Honthorst Masterwork." New York Times. November 21, 2013. Archived February 24, 2017, at the Wayback Automobile Accessed 2013-11-22.
  30. ^ "Provenance". Nga.gov. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2013-12-22 .

Farther reading [edit]

  • David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life, Knopf, 2006, ISBN 0-679-45032-7
  • Neil Harris, Capital Civilisation: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Fine art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Feel, University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 9780226067704
  • Andrew Kelly, Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts, American Civilisation, and the Alphabetize of American Design, University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-5567-8
  • "The National Gallery of Art, Washington", special number of Connaissance des Arts, Société Français de Promotion Artistique (2000) ISSN 1242-9198

External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • NGA Collection
  • Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library
  • Center for Avant-garde Written report in the Visual Arts

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