Gallery

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a famous art museum situated in National Mall, in Washington D.C. It was open free of cost to public and the museum got established during the year 1937 for people of US by joint decision of United States Congress and Andrew w. Mellon who donated the funds of construction and art collection. Additionally the core collection has many art works donated by Ailsa Mellon, Paul Mellon, Samuel Henry kress, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Peter Arrel Brown. The collection of gallery has drawings, paintings, photographs, medals, sculpture, decorative arts and development of Western Arts from recent ages to present which include famous painting of Leonarda da Vinci in Americas and famous mobile that was created by Alexander Calder.

The campus of the Gallery includes the famous neoclassical west building which was created by John Russell pope that was linked underground with modern east building which was created by I.M Pei, with a sculpture of garden of 6.1 acres. The art gallery conducts temporary special exhibitions traversing the world and the history of art. The museum is composed of 2 buildings, the East Building (1978) and the West Building (1941) which is linked together by very good underground passage. The West Building contains pink Tennessee marble and was designed by John Russell Pope, a famous architect in the year 1937. Read the rest of this entry »

Review of National Art Gallery of Canada

Located in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, the National gallery of Canada is one of the premier art galleries of Canada. The Gallery is placed in granite and glass apartment on Sussex Drive with spectacular view of the parliament building on Parliament Hill. This amazing structure was the creation of famous Architect Moshe Safdie which was opened during the year 1654. The former director of the gallery Jean Sutherland Boggs was selected by Pierre Trudeau, the Prime minister of Canada to take care of national gallery of museums and gallery.

Initially, the gallery was formed by John Douglas, the Governor General of Canada and it was moved to 1^st home on Parliament Hill in exactly same building as Supreme Court. In 1911, they moved the gallery to Victoria Memorial Museum. The National Gallery of Canada was chosen as one among top five hundred buildings in Canada which has been built in last century by Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Read the rest of this entry »