National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
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About this organization
Mission
The Gallery's mission is to preserve, collect, exhibit and foster understanding of works of art
About
COLLECTIONSThe National Gallery of Art's collection is at the heart of the Gallery's mission, following founder Andrew W. Mellon's gift and mandate to establish a national gallery with works of the highest quality. The collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of European achievements from the 13th century to the present and American art from colonial times to the present. It comprises a comprehensive study of Italian Renaissance art, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci outside Europe, as well as strong holdings of the French Impressionists, the Dutch and Flemish masters, one of the country's most distinguished American collections, and twentieth-century art. The collection also includes prints, drawings, rare books and photographs. Major post-World War II sculpture is installed in a dynamic and richly landscaped setting in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden.The Gallery's collections were strengthened during the fiscal year with a number of significant acquisitions made possible by generous donors. The painting collection was enhanced with the additions of Camille Pissarro's "Landscape at Les Patis, Pontoise" (1868) and Claude-Joseph Vernet's "Moonlight" (1772). Dutch and Flemish collection acquisitions included Clara Peeter's "Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail" (c. 1615/1618), Willem van de Velde the Younger's "An English Warship Firing a Salute" (1673), Jan van Kessel's "Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary" (1653), and Jan Victors's "The Slaughtered Hog" (1653). Gifts of twenty-nine paintings including a rare painting by Henry Inman, "Rip Van Winkle Awakening from his Long Sleep", augmented the American paintings collection. The Gallery's department of modern art acquired a diverse group of paintings, from modernist classics to contemporary masterpieces, including Juan Gris's "Glass and Checkerboard" (c. 1917). Additions to the Gallery's sculpture collection included the over-life-size marble bust, "Comte Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe" (1832), by the French master Pierre-Jean David d'Angers and an Italian Renaissance sculpture, "The Adoration of the Shepherds" (1530s), by Valerio Belli. Six newly acquired sculptures added both diversity and strength to the modern art collection, including Theaster Gates's "Ground Rules (black line)" (2015) and Joel Shapiro's "untitled" (2017-2018). The acquisitions of two Italian drawings, "Head of a Youth Looking Up" (c. 1485) by the Sienese painter Pinturicchio and "The Virgin and Four Other Women" (1505/1510) by the Venetian Vittore Carpaccio, represent the early stages of draftsmanship in Europe. Max Beckmann's "Temptation" (1919), which focuses on the rise of prostitution in postwar Germany, was an important twentieth-century European drawing acquisition. The earliest and most important addition to the Gallery's collection of European prints was an engraving by the mid-fifteenth century German printmaker Master E.S., "Apostle Simon Zelotes". The Gallery received a major gift comprising more than sixty-five prints by contemporary artists John Baldessari and Ann Hamilton, mid-twentieth century abstractionist Dorothy Dehner and Claire Falkenstein, and artist-activists Nancy Spero and Leon Albert Golub. Another outstanding gift of twenty-nine edition prints by Jasper Johns was received during the year, many inscribed to the artist's legendary dealer Leo Castelli. The department of photographs acquired more than 1,000 photographs through gift and purchase, including works from the early 1840s to 2016. An important nineteenth-century addition was the acquisition of nine carte-de-visite portraits of African Americans made during the 1860s, including the Gallery's first portrait of Frederick Douglass. Significant photographs by women from the 1920s to the 1950s augmented the collection, including works by Rogi Andre, Aenne Biermann, Ilse Bing, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Kati Horna, and Genevieve Naylor. The Gallery's library received a major scholarly collection of books and archival material on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. Notable among the 130 titles added to the rare book and special collection during the year was "Thierbuch: sehr kunstliche und wol gerissene Figuren von allerley Thieren" by Georg Schaller (Frankfurt, 1579) featuring 107 woodcut illustrations of domestic, wild, and mythical animals, by Jost Amman and Johann Melchior Bocksberger. The department of image collections acquired a collection of sixty-six photographs and negatives by Benjamin Brecknell Turner. Preserving the Gallery's outstanding collection for future generations remains one of the Gallery's critical responsibilities and the primary concern of its conservators and scientific researchers. During the fiscal year, the Gallery's painting, object, photograph, paper, and frame conservators and scientific researchers undertook treatments and examinations and studied and devised new technologies that further the Gallery's mission of preserving the works of art with which it is entrusted. The Gallery's object conservators completed fourteen major treatments on works in a wide range of materials, sizes, and time periods, in addition to 362 minor treatments. The department completed major examinations of thirty-one works and 821 minor condition examinations to prepare works for loan and exhibition. Extensive technical exams were performed on Andrea del Verrocchio sculptures in advance of the 2019 exhibition. The painting conservation department completed thirty-one major treatments, sixty-three minor treatments, and 166 major examinations involving detailed study, analysis, x-radiography, and infrared reflectography. In addition, more than 960 paintings were examined and documented in preparation for Gallery exhibitions and loans to other institutions. Paper conservators completed eight major treatments, 101 minor treatments, and 1,475 minor examinations for exhibitions, loans, and collections maintenance. In addition, conservators took more than seventy x-radiographs and ultraviolet and infrared images.Matting-framing specialists and technicians matted 576 prints, drawings and photographs; framed and unframed 1,341 artworks; constructed 216 custom housings; devised 209 mounts for display; built or repaired 247 frames; and installed 203 artworks in exhibitions. The photograph conservation department completed fifteen major treatments, 155 minor treatments, and 1,270 condition examinations for loans, collections maintenance, and exhibitions. The textile conservator completed one major treatment, six minor examinations, four minor treatments, and 584 condition examinations for exhibitions, loans, and collection maintenance. Scientists examined seventy-four works of art in association with conservation treatments and research in support of exhibition catalogs and ongoing projects by conservators and curators.In addition to providing expert care for works of art, Gallery conservators and scientists participate in professional meetings and conferences, and publish technical papers that make available the results of research undertaken at the Gallery. This research supports and enhances conservation practices around the world.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
From their filing, the objective of the non-profit is stated as “The mission of the national gallery of art is to serve the united states of america in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.”.
When detailing its duties, they were outlined as: “The gallery's mission is to preserve, collect, exhibit and foster understanding of works of art”.
- The legally reported state of operation for the non-profit is DC.
- According to the filing, the non-profit's address in 2019 is 6th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20565.
- The non-profit's form for the year 2019 reports a total of 1152 employees on their payroll.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $77,925,793.
- The organization has 9 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1937.
- The organization pays $109,290,124 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $4,663,949 in fundraising expenses.