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National Gallery of Art
(Encyclopedia)National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, established by an act of Congress, 1937. Andrew W. Mellon donated funds for construction of the building as well...National Gallery
(Encyclopedia)National Gallery, London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain, est. 1824. The nucleus of museum was the 38-picture collection of the late English banker John Julius Angerste...Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Encyclopedia)Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. ...Tate Gallery
(Encyclopedia)Tate Gallery, London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was g...museums of art
(Encyclopedia)museums of art, institutions or buildings where works of art are kept for display or safekeeping. The word museum derives from the Greek mouseion, meaning temple to the works of the Muses. This articl...Huntington Library and Art Gallery
(Encyclopedia)Huntington Library and Art Gallery: see Huntington, Henry Edwards. ...Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
(Encyclopedia)Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery: see Huntington, Henry Edwards. ...Grosvenor Gallery
(Encyclopedia)Grosvenor Gallery, founded in London (1877) by Sir Coutts Lindsay (1839–1913), for the independent exhibition (opening May 1 annually) of paintings and sculpture by established artists, both Academi...Museum of Modern Art
(Encyclopedia)Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the mu...academies of art
(Encyclopedia)academies of art, official organizations of established artists. Lorenzo de' Medici's informal circle of great artists and thinkers was modeled on similar groups formed in classical Greece. The first ...Browse by Subject
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