National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
202-737-4215
(above: View of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art Looking West along Constitution Avenue, NW, photo © 2014 John Hazeltine)
(above photos from left to right: After Dark: View of the East Building from the West Building, Fourth Street Entrance, Opened 1978, Architect: I. M. Pei & Partners, photo by Dennis Brack / Black Star; Interior of East Building atrium of National Gallery of Art, featuring Alexander Calder mobile; photo ©1987 John Hazeltine, )
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture
Garden are located on the National Mall between Third and Ninth Streets
at Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
The Gallery was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937, the year of his death. The Gallery's collection of some 106,000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present
Special exhibitions are presented throughout the year. The Gallery also offers a free concert series, lectures, tours, film screenings, and a wide range of educational programs and materials for loan
The original (West) building opened to the public in 1941, and includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) works. Rich in Dutch masters and French impressionists, the collection offers superb surveys of American, British, Flemish, Spanish, and 15th- and 16th-century German art. Visitors are also invited to explore the Micro Gallery, a comprehensive interactive multimedia computer system. (left: West Building entrance. Photo credit: Mark Hazeltine)
See the Gallery's website for hours and other general information.
The National Gallery of Art offers on its web site
the audio tour "The
Director's Tour" by Director Earl A. Powell III.
O'Keeffe
on Paper. Barbara Buhler Lynes, co-curator of the exhibition,
author of Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, curator of
the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and Emily Fisher Landau Director
of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, discuss new insights on
the stunning watercolors, charcoals, and pastels presented in the exhibition
of O'Keeffe's most innovative works on paper. Aired May 6, 2000. (description
courtesy NGA)
Carleton
Watkins: The Art of Perception. Sarah Greenough, curator of photographs,
talks about works by celebrated nineteenth-century photographer Carleton
Watkins, on view in the first major exhibition of Watkin's work in 20 years.
Aired March 11, 2000. (description courtesy NGA)
Martin
Johnson Heade, Part Two. Franklin Kelly, curator of British and
American painting, continues the discussion of the exhibition, Martin
Johnson Heade. Aired March 4, 2000. (description courtesy NGA)
Martin
Johnson Heade, Part One. Franklin Kelly, curator of British and
American painting, presents an overview of the work of Martin Johnson Heade,
one of the most innovative and creative artists of the nineteenth century.
Aired February 26, 2000. (description courtesy NGA)
From PBS:
Artist Romare Bearden drew on his interests in religious
ritual and classic literature to create beyond what the camera could capture
in his depictions of urban African-American life in the 20th century. Jeffrey
Brown reviews the artistic achievements of Bearden, which are celebrated
in an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C. This 8-minute
audio clip is from a 1988 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer segment. Another
10-minute NewsHour segment includes a 1986 Charlayne Hunter-Gault
interview with Romare Bearden.
TFAO also suggests these DVD or VHS videos:
Awareness Series: American Art. John Singleton Copley,
George Catlin, and Mary Cassatt: A Nation of Painters is a 25 minute
video produced by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in cooperation
with WETA-TV. "Short, evocative studies of the works of major artists
represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Art: Copley,
Catlin, Cassatt, and American Naive painters. Programs are not intended
as definitive studies of these artists; rather, each is designed as a starting
point for group discussion of the art and artist. Segments may be used
independently, in any order or combination." This video is lent free
of charge through the National Gallery of Art's Division of Education (go
to NGA Loan
Materials Finder)
Awareness Series: Modern Masters is a 40 minute
video produced by the National Gallery of Art. "Short, evocative studies
of the works of major artists represented in the collections of the National
Gallery of Art: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Gauguin, Cézanne,
and Picasso. Programs are not intended as definitive studies of these artists;
rather, each is designed as a starting point for group discussion of the
art and artist. Segments may be used independently, in any order or combination."
This video is lent free of charge through the National Gallery of Art's
Division of Education (go to NGA
Loan Materials Finder) Image courtesy NGA.
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