Brief Guide: National Gallery of Art
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Brief Guide - Sharp Ink
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Brief Guide
National Gallery of Art
Sharp Ink Publishing
2022
Contact: info@sharpinkbooks.com
ISBN 978-80-282-0095-4
Table of Contents
History and Description
THE COLLECTIONS
About the Works of Art Listed in this Brochure
Florentine and Central Italian Art (Galleries 1-10)
Venetian and North Italian Art (Galleries 19-29)
Italian Art of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Galleries 33, 34, 36, 37; Lobby A, West Stair Hall, and Rotunda Stair Hall)
Flemish and German Art (Galleries 35, 35A, 39-43)
Dutch Art (Galleries 44-49)
Spanish Art (Galleries 30, 38, 39, 50, 51 and 76)
French Art of the 17th, 18th, and Early 19th Centuries (Galleries 33, 44, 52-56, East Sculpture Hall, and Lobby C)
British Art (Galleries 57-59 and 61)
American Art (Galleries 60, 60A, 60B, 62, and 64-68)
French Art of the 19th Century (Galleries 72, 77, and 83-93)
20th-Century Art (Gallery 76 and West Stair Hall)
Decorative Arts
Prints and Drawings
Index of American Design
GENERAL INFORMATION
HOURS
ART INFORMATION DESKS
CHECKROOMS
PUBLICATIONS SERVICE
TOURS
LECTURES
FILMS
CONCERTS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
EXTENSION SERVICE
SLIDE LENDING SERVICE
PHOTOGRAPHY OF WORKS OF ART
PERMITS TO COPY WORKS OF ART
CAFÉ/ BUFFET
SMOKING ROOMS
RESTROOMS
FIRST AID
WHEELCHAIRS • STROLLERS
TELEPHONES
GUARD REGULATIONS
PLANTS AND FLOWERS
Gifts and Bequests
History and Description
Table of Contents
The National Gallery of Art belongs to all the people of the United States of America. Established by a joint resolution of Congress, it is supported by public appropriation. The Board of Trustees consists of four public servants, ex officio, and five private citizens. Chairman of the Board is the Chief Justice of the United States. Under the policies set by the Board, the Gallery assembles and maintains a collection of paintings, sculpture, and the graphic arts, representative of the best in the artistic heritage of America and Europe. Supported in its daily operations by Federal funds, the Gallery is entirely dependent on the generosity of private citizens for the works of art in its collections.
Funds for the construction of the original building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began to collect with the intention of forming a national gallery of art in Washington. His collection was given to the nation in 1937, the year of his death. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed Gallery on behalf of the people of the United States of America.
Architect for the National Gallery was John Russell Pope, who also designed the Jefferson Memorial and other outstanding public buildings in Washington. The building is one of the largest marble structures in the world, measuring 780 feet in length and containing more than 500,000 square feet of interior floor space. The exterior is of rose-white Tennessee marble. The columns in the Rotunda were quarried in Tuscany, Italy. Green marble from Vermont and gray marble from Tennessee were used for the floor of the Rotunda. The interior walls are of Alabama Rockwood stone, Indiana limestone, and Italian travertine. The entire building is air-conditioned and humidity-controlled throughout the year to maintain the optimum atmospheric conditions for the works of art it contains.
The original building is no longer large enough to accommodate the Gallery’s acquisitions and interpretive art programs. A second building, presently under construction, will house new exhibition galleries and a Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The two buildings will be connected by a plaza above ground and by a concourse of public service areas, including