Corcoran Gallery of Art

500 17th Street Northwest
Washington, DC, 20006
202-639-1700

URL : http://www.corcoran.org

overview : The largest non-federal art museum in the nation's capital, the Corcoran was founded in 1869 as an institution to be "dedicated to art, and used solely for the purpose of encouraging the American genius." -- Only a block from the White House and just a short walk from the nation's historic Mall, the Corcoran stands as a major center of American art. It is a place where the past, present and future of the visual arts come to life - the past in the museum's extensive collection of American and European masterworks, the present in its ongoing exhibitions of contemporary art, and the future in the classrooms and studios of one of the most distinguished colleges of art and design in the country.

topics : district of columbia