Galleries Information

The National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a national art gallery museum located in the National Mall of Washington D.C. The National Mall is a national park located in downtown of this U.S state. The Washington D.C National Gallery of Art was established in 1937. This museum was established for the individuals of the United States by a resolution of the U.S congress.

An American banker and art collector known as Andrew William Mellon had donated a large art collection and funds for the construction of this gallery. Andrew Mellon was born on March 24th of 1855 and died August 26 of 1937. He gathered a private collection of paintings and sculptures during World War I. In the late 1920s, he had made the decision of providing his collections of art for the establishment of this museum. This museum had also received major donations of artworks by other individuals such the following: Joseph Widener, Samuel Kress, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Chester Dale, Lessing Rosenwald, Paul Mellon, etc. The collections of art of this gallery are: Paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, decorative art, medals and sculptures, which follows the development of the Western Art from back to the middle ages to the present. Some of the unique art exhibitions of this gallery are: The Leonardo Da Vinci only painting in America and the creation of the largest mobile by Alexander Calder. This famous art museum is very known for having one of the finest collections of art in the world. The National Gallery of Art Library is a major art research center, which serves the staff of the gallery and its visitors. This library contains a collection of more than 400,000 periodicals, books, documents of history, criticism of art, theory and architecture. The library emphasis is on the Western art of the middle ages to the present and American art from the colonial age to the present. After a satisfactory visiting to the museum, you can also check some of the grey Washington DC lounges such as: Lux Lounge, Layla Lounge, Station 9, Cloud Lounge, Modern, Zodiac Lounge, etc.