Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C. · founded 1869
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., at the location where the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University, is now. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States. It held an important collection that became concentrated in American art.
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What to see
Niagara
Frederic Edwin Church, 1857.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Last of the Buffalo
Albert Bierstadt, 1888.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ground Swell
Edward Hopper, 1939.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Repose
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1860.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White)
1883.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Setting Out to Fish
1878.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.corcoran.org/home before you travel.
Getting there
500 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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