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The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University.[1]

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  1. 57 relations: American Civil War, AOL, Art museum, Barry Schuler, Beaux-Arts architecture, Bequest and devise, Calvin Coolidge, Canova Lions, Charles A. Platt, Claude Monet, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Dick Armey, Donelson Hoopes, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Ernest Flagg, Eugène Delacroix, Financial endowment, Fine art, Frank Gehry, Gene Davis (painter), George Washington University, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Internet Archive, Jacob Guptil Fletcher, Jean Chalgrin, Jesse Helms, Joan Mitchell, John Singer Sargent, Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Marià Fortuny, Mary E. Bouligny, National Endowment for the Arts, National Gallery of Art, Pablo Picasso, Pantheon, Rome, Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, Pop art, Rembrandt Peale, Renwick Gallery, Riggs Bank, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Pittman (media executive), The Ellipse, The Federal Communications Law Journal, The New York Times, The Perfect Moment, The Phillips Collection, The Washington Post, ... Expand index (7 more) »

  2. Art museums and galleries disestablished in 2015
  3. Art museums and galleries established in 1869
  4. Corcoran family
  5. Defunct art museums and galleries in the United States
  6. George Washington University buildings and structures
  7. Members of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
  8. National Gallery of Art
  9. Pennsylvania Avenue

American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own collection.

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Barry Schuler

Barry Martin Schuler (born September 7, 1953) is an American Internet entrepreneur and former chairman and CEO of America Online Inc. He is best known for leading the AOL team that simplified the online service provider's user interface, making it possible for millions of consumers to gain easy access to the Internet.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Bequest and devise

Historically, a bequest is personal property given by will and a devise is real property given by will.

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Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.;; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.

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Canova Lions

The Canova Lions, located in front of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are copies of a pair of lions sculpted by Antonio Canova in 1792 for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St Peter's in Rome. Corcoran Gallery of Art and Canova Lions are Foggy Bottom.

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Charles A. Platt

Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was an American architect, garden designer, and artist of the "American Renaissance" movement.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

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Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (known as the Corcoran School or CSAD) is the professional art school of the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.Peggy McGlone,, Washington Post (August 4, 2015). Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design are Corcoran family.

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Dick Armey

Richard Keith Armey (born July 7, 1940) is an American economist and politician.

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Donelson Hoopes

Donelson Farquhar Hoopes, Jr. (December 3, 1932 – February 22, 2006) was an American art historian and curator.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

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Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.

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Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was an American architect in the Beaux-Arts style.

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Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry (born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer.

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Gene Davis (painter)

Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction. Corcoran Gallery of Art and George Washington University are Foggy Bottom and Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum in Philadelphia.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jacob Guptil Fletcher

Jacob Guptil Fletcher (November 22, 1825 – December 3, 1889) was an American artist and art conservator.

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Jean Chalgrin

Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

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Jesse Helms

Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician.

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Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.

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Lowell Blair Nesbitt

Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 – July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor.

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Marià Fortuny

Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal (Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal; June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish painter of his day, with an international reputation.

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Mary E. Bouligny

Mary Elizabeth Bouligny Levey (Parker; 1839 – October 10, 1908) was a Washington socialite and author.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Corcoran Gallery of Art and National Gallery of Art are Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, museums of American art and Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon (Pantheum,Although the spelling Pantheon is standard in English, only Pantheum is found in classical Latin; see, for example, Pliny, Natural History: "Agrippas Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis". See also Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. "Pantheum"; Oxford English Dictionary, s.v.: "post-classical Latin pantheon a temple consecrated to all the gods (6th cent.; compare classical Latin pantheum)".

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Pennsylvania Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, D.C. that connects the United States Capitol with the White House and then crosses northwest Washington, D.C. to Georgetown.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Rembrandt Peale

Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper.

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The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. Corcoran Gallery of Art and Renwick Gallery are Members of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington and Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Riggs Bank

Riggs Bank was a bank headquartered in Washington, D.C. For most of its history, it was the largest bank headquartered in that city. Corcoran Gallery of Art and Riggs Bank are Corcoran family.

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs.

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Robert Warren Pittman (born December 28, 1953) is an American businessman.

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The Ellipse

The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., US.

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The Federal Communications Law Journal

The Federal Communications Law Journal (FCLJ) is a triannual law review published by students of the George Washington University Law School.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Perfect Moment

The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

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The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection are Members of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington and museums of American art.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

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Visual art of the United States

Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists.

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Washington Project for the Arts

Washington Project for the Arts, founded in 1975, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support and aid of artists in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist.

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William A. Clark

William Andrews Clark Sr. (January 8, 1839March 2, 1925) was an American entrepreneur, involved with mining, banking, and railroads, as well as a politician.

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William Wilson Corcoran

William Wilson Corcoran (December 27, 1798 – February 24, 1888) was an American banker, philanthropist, and art collector. Corcoran Gallery of Art and William Wilson Corcoran are Corcoran family.

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See also

Art museums and galleries disestablished in 2015

Art museums and galleries established in 1869

Corcoran family

Defunct art museums and galleries in the United States

George Washington University buildings and structures

Members of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington

National Gallery of Art

Pennsylvania Avenue

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art

Also known as Corcoran Art Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery and School of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art.

, Thomas Gainsborough, Visual art of the United States, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Willem de Kooning, William A. Clark, William Wilson Corcoran.