ID: 700072352 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700072352	Record Type: Built Work

Smithsonian Gallery of Art (unbuilt project; Saarinen, Eliel; Saarinen, Eero; 1939 competition: design: 1941...; Washington (District of Columbia, United States, North and C...)

Note: Located in: Washington, District of Columbia, United States; Modernist; modern museum design that was never built due to funding issues and World War II; the design concept heavily influenced designs of other modern art museums in the United States

Titles:

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

Smithsonian Art Gallery (C,U,English,,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

unbuilt project [300126989] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), projects (artistic concepts))

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)

art museum (building) [300264847]

..... (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, museums (buildings), <museums buildings by subject>)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 1939 competition: design: 1941; Modernist

Creator Display:

Saarinen, Eliel; Saarinen, Eero [preferred,BWR]

Saarinen, Eliel (Finnish architect, 1873-1950, active in the United States) [500027014]

Saarinen, Eero (American architect, designer, 1910-1961) [500006141]

Locations:

Current: Washington [7013962] (Geographic)

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

Display Materials: unavailable

Dimensions: unavailable

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Modernist [300021474] (preferred,)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

Related Works:

	related to .... National Gallery of Art [700016368] the early unrealized design for a national art museum, now NGA
	..........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...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

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

............... Smithsonian Institution

Sources and Contributors:
Smithsonian Gallery of Art	........ [VP,BWR]
	........ BWR database (2010-)
Smithsonian Art Gallery	........ [BWR,VP]
	........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3775009

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

....................... BWR database (2010-) BWR3775009

....................... BWR-04 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021)

....................... BWR SSID (2010-) 3775009

....................... BWR DSSC ID (2010-) 49707

....................... Cornell University Library, BWR contribution (2010-) 9361

Note:
English	..... [BWR,VP]
	..... BWR database (2010-)
	..... Smithsonian Institute Annual Report (1846-1964)