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National Gallery of Art

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  1. A noted art museum in Washington, D.C. The federal government pays for the operation of the buildings. The buildings themselves, and the works of art inside, were supplied by private donors.


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Other of the exhibition’s 107 objects come from private collections and from such institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

On Saturday, The National Gallery of Art announced it had to close its doors due to lack of funding.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2025

The National Gallery of Art also owns a print of an 1863 photo, “The Scourged Back,” which shows the heavily scarred back of an escaped slave.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2025

Organized with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where it travels in the fall, the show is a blockbuster featuring many of the most-beloved paintings associated with the Impressionist movement.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2024

Tommy said he’d just gotten a postcard from the National Gallery of Art, “one of those Vermeer pictures, the stolen one,” from Frog.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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