Art museum located on the National Mall includes collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present
General Information
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The National Gallery of Art on the National Mall is one of the great museums in the United States, free to enter and established in 1937 for the American people. Its collections of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts trace Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, and it ranked fifth among the world's most visited art museums in 2021 with 1.7 million visitors.
The Buildings
- West Building (1941): a neoclassical pink Tennessee marble building by John Russell Pope with a Pantheon-like domed rotunda, holding European masters from the medieval period through the late 19th century, including Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci's only painting in the Americas, plus American art
- East Building (1978): I.M. Pei's geometric triangles, for modern and contemporary art by Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Calder
- Concourse: an underground link with Leo Villareal's Multiverse light sculpture of about 41,000 LEDs and a food court
- Sculpture Garden: 6.1 acres (opened 1999) designed by Laurie Olin, with a reflecting pool that becomes an ice rink in winter and works by Chagall, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Sol LeWitt
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