ID: 700016368 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700016368	Record Type: Built Work

National Gallery of Art (complex (buildings and sites); John Russell Pope (West Building) and I. M. Pei (East Buildi...; West Building 1941, East Build...; Washington (District of Columbia, United States, North and C...)

Note: Located on the National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States; two museum buildings and attached sculpture garden, the national art museum of the US. Complex comprising two buildings, the East Building and the West Building, and an underground passageway connecting the two. The West Building is constructed of pink Tennessee marble, designed in 1937 by John Russell Pope in a Neoclassical style. The footprint is in the form of an elongated H, the building centered on a domed rotunda modeled on the interior of the Pantheon in Rome. Extending east and west from the rotunda, a pair of high, skylit sculpture halls provide its main circulation spine. Bright garden courts provide a counterpoint to the long main axis of the building. The West Building houses an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures by European masters from the medieval period through the late 19th century, as well as pre-20th century works by American artists.

Titles:

National Gallery of Art (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

National Gallery of Art (Washington) (C,U,English,,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

complex (buildings and sites) [300000202] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name))

museum (building) [300005768]

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, exhibition buildings)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: West Building 1941, East Building 1978

Creator Display:

John Russell Pope (West Building) and I. M. Pei (East Building) [preferred,BWR]

Pope, John Russell (American architect, 1874-1937) [500126218]

Pei, I. M. (American architect, 1917-2019, born in China) [500029268]

Locations:

Current: Washington [7013962] DC (national district), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: +38.8833,-77.0333; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Display Materials: unavailable

Dimensions: unavailable

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: institutional, public, commercial, and industrial buildings

Sources and Contributors:
National Gallery of Art	........ [BWR,VP]
	........ BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021) BWR3781279
National Gallery of Art (Washington)	........ [BWR,VP]
	........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3781279

Subject: ....... [BWR,VP]

....................... BWR database (2010-)

....................... BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021) processed 2020-2021

Note:
English	..... [BWR,VP]
	..... BWR database (2010-)