AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum has been very fortunate to be selected as the recipient of the Ohio gift of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. The Vogels dedicated their lives to collecting works by more than 1…
Declaration of Independence Stone Facsimile on View at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Declaration of Independence: The Stone Copy presents one of only 31 existing copies of the “Stone” facsimile of the historic document in the American galleries of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 28 thr…
Statue Leaves Italy for the First Time Since 1816 for Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON (AP).- One of the best preserved sculptures from Roman antiquity, the “Capitoline Venus,” has left Italy for the first time in nearly 200 years for a special display at the National Gallery of Art. The installation goes on public view Satur…
Statue Leaves Italy for the First Time Since 1816 for Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON (AP).- One of the best preserved sculptures from Roman antiquity, the “Capitoline Venus,” has left Italy for the first time in nearly 200 years for a special display at the National Gallery of Art. The installation goes on public view Satur…
Kerry James Marshall’s Painting Great America Acquired by National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- At its annual meeting in April, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art made possible the acquisition of Great America (1994) by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955). Now on view in the East Building’s Concourse galleries, it…
Italian Drawings from Renowned Collection Presented at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, spanning the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement, are showcased at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the Gallery’s West B…
Italian Drawings from Renowned Collection at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, spanning the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement, are showcased at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the Gallery’s West…
John Taylor Arms’ Exquisite Prints on View in His First Exhibition at The National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The astonishing dexterity and passion for detail of American printmaker John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) is revealed in the first exhibition of his works at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the West Building from M…
Andy Warhol’s Headline Works to Be Presented by the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition to fully examine the works that Andy Warhol created on the theme of news headlines will premiere at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from September 25, 2011, to January 2, 2012. WARHOL: HEADLINES will defin…
Thomas Moran’s Masterpiece "Green River Cliffs, Wyoming" Acquired by National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, recently acquired American painter Thomas Moran’s Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, 1881, a gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families. It was ten years after his first trip west in 1871 that Moran co…