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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, which was “Dedicated to Art,” was the first public art museum in Washington, D.C. There are hundreds of fine pictures and triumphs of sculpture hidden away in private houses and rarely seen, and, therefore, of no use in awakening that taste for art which Mr. Corcoran is so anxious to cultivate in his countrymen.
Mar 23, 2023 · Cy Pres Proceedings. The Corcoran was a private art gallery in Washington, D.C., founded in 1869. In 1994, the Corcoran entered into an agreement with the Alice C. Tyler Art Trust, established by a philanthropist of that name.
Founded in 1869 by Washington philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the Corcoran Gallery of Art was originally located at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Rapid growth forced the gallery to relocate, and at its opening in 1897, the present structure was the first of a group of semi-public and public buildings to be erected on the 17th Street thoroughfare between New York ...
Aug 19, 2014 · The Corcoran Gallery of Art first opened its doors in Washington in 1874 with a sum of 98 paintings and sculptures. It was the brainchild of William Corcoran, a wealthy banker who collected art ...
In 1877 Albert Bierstadt displayed this enormous composite of Sierra Nevada mountain views at a New York City exhibition with the generic title Mountain Lake.The following year, inspired in part by the Corcoran Gallery of Art's well-publicized purchase of his rival Frederic Edwin Church's Niagara, Bierstadt offered the work—rechristened Mount Corcoran—to the museum and its founder, William ...
John Singer Sargent, Draughtsman features more than 90 works on paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which has one of the most comprehensive collections of Sargent’s works on paper. Ranging from the early landscapes that he made in sketchbooks at age twelve to his later studies for mural decorations for Boston’s ...
Today, Corcoran students, faculty, and staff activate the salon in a variety of new and engaging ways. Read more about the Salon Doré's history in this interview with Dare Hartwell, former Head Conservator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the conservator who oversaw the 2024 restoration of the Salon Doré.
