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

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

From BBC

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

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

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

Another of the experts, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., former curator of northern Baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, said in an interview that he had been quickly convinced of Rembrandt’s authorship.

From New York Times