Closed museum鈥檚 artworks back on display
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THOUSANDS of prized artworks from one of the United States’ oldest, now shuttered art museums have been on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, representing a “transformative” infusion of art on the National Mall.
The museum last week announced an initial acquisition of 6,430 works of American and European art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art collection of more than 17,600 works.
Highlights include Frederic Church’s masterpiece “Niagara” from 1857, Thomas Eakins’ “Singing a Pathetic Song” and Edward Hopper’s 1939 painting of sailors on Cape Cod, “Ground Swell,” curators said. Modern art acquisitions include pieces by Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keeffe. The Corcoran Gallery opened in 1874, more than 60 years before the National Gallery, striving to build an art collection worthy of the nation’s capital.
After years of financial and management trouble more recently, the Corcoran closed in 2014, ending a 140-year era focused largely on contemporary art. A judge approved transferring the art to the National Gallery and the Corcoran’s art school to George Washington University.
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