The National Gallery of Art was conceived and given to the people of the United States by Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937). Mellon was a financier and art collector from Pittsburgh who came to Washington in 1921 to serve as secretary of the treasury. During his years of public service he came to believe that the United States should have a national art museum equal to those of other great nations. Every work of art in the collections of the National Gallery of Art has been privately donated or purchased with privately donated funds. To encourage others to give, Andrew Mellon insisted that the museum he founded should not bear his name but should be called the National Gallery of Art. By the time the museum opened to the public in March 1941, Mellon’s gift already had been joined by the great Samuel H. Kress Collection of early Italian paintings. Chester Dale loaned paintings for the opening, and Joseph Widener had promised the Widener Collection of more than 600 works. In 1943 Lessing Rosenwald gave the museum some 8,000 prints and drawings. By the time of the museum’s 25th anniversary in 1966, 114 exhibition galleries were filled with great works of art. Each year private donors give additional works to the museum, ensuring that the collections of the National Gallery of Art continue to grow. OpiniónLa Galería Nacional es un espacio de Arte muy completo, el edificio está bien estructurado para su recorrido ya que siendo el domo el punto central del museo, se divide en dos pasillos grandes. Las salas de exhibición están bien diseñadas. Los puntos importantes de la Galería están a los extremos, el único Leonardo Da Vinci en América se encuentra al fondo a un costado.
La parte del impresionismo y el barroco son de las primeras salas a un costado del domo central. Las salas de la planta baja son dedicadas al arte contemporáneo y al clásico, esculturas clásicas de un extremo y contemporáneo al otro extremo. Si en verdad quieres recorrerlo completamente es mejor empezar por la planta baja.
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Marzo 2020
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