Description: Washington, DC - National Gallery of Art, Rotunda - ARCHITECTURE: The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection also includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder. The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m2) Sculpture Garden. The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. The museum comprises two buildings: the West Building (1941) and the East Building (1978) linked by a spacious underground passage. The West Building, composed of pink Tennessee marble, was designed in 1937 by architect John Russell Pope in a neoclassical style (as is Pope's other notable Washington, D.C. building, the Jefferson Memorial). Designed in the form of an elongated H, the building is centered on a domed rotunda modeled on the interior of the Pantheon in Rome. Extending east and west from the rotunda, a pair of high, sky lit sculpture halls provide its main circulation spine. Bright garden courts provide a counterpoint to the long main axis of the building. This Linen Era (1930-45) Sepia toned postcard is in good condition.
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Location: Brooklyn, New York
End Time: 2024-02-04T03:43:01.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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City/Region: Washington DC
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Postage Condition: Unposted
Era: Divided Back (c. 1907-1915)
Features: Sepia
National Gallery of Art: Rotunda
Neoclassical West Building: John Russell Pope, Architect
Modern East Building: I. M. Pei
Modeled on Pantheon in Rome: Bright garden courts
Pantheon: Rome
Fountain: Rotunda
Region: District of Columbia
Country: USA
