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The Corcoran Gallery of Art created a model for local and national support of the arts. It was the first arts institution given to the American people by an individual, and Corcoran thought of it as a national gallery. Moses P. Rice (1839 – 1925), William Wilson Corcoran reading in the library of his home on the northeast corner of H Street ...
April 27, 1992. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States.
Jul 2014 • Friends. In most cities, the Corcoran Gallery of Art would be a “must see” and no tourist-reviewer would complain about the $10 entrance fee. But in DC, where the nearby monolithic, federally subsidized Smithsonian-system and National Gallery of Art dominate, the much smaller Corcoran can fall to a tertiary position.
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David C. Driskell, Peak and Plane, 1980, egg tempera, mesh fabric, and collage on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art), 2015.143.169 21 of 36 George Bellows, Forty-two Kids , 1907, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.2
The Corcoran Gallery of Art stands as a major center of American art, both historic and contemporary. Founded “for the purpose of encouraging American..
Corcoran Gallery of Art, museum in Washington, D.C., chartered by Congress in 1870 and established through the provisions made by the banker William W. Corcoran.
