National Gallery of Art

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

Is it any wonder then that the poster image for “American Landscapes in Watercolor From the Corcoran Collection,” at the National Gallery of Art through Feb. 1, 2026, is by Winslow Homer?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

Next year it will stage a traveling exhibition that just opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., titled “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

Conservationists at the National Archives reached out to colleagues at the National Gallery of Art for tips on specialized cleaning products to use around delicate textiles.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 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