The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University.
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design is the professional art school of the George Washington University, in Washington, DC. Founded in 1878, the school is housed in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the oldest private cultural institution in Washington, located on The Ellipse, facing the White House. The Corcoran School is part of GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and was formerly an independent college, until 2014.
The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located in Washington, D.C., and focuses on American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to the 21st century. It is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was begun in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art. When it was built in 1859, it was known as "the American Louvre".
The Washington Color School was a movement starting in Washington DC, built of six core abstract expressionist artists during the 1950s–1970s. They emerged during a time when society, the arts, and people were changing quickly. The inner circle of this new visual art movement consisted of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Tom Downing, and Paul Reed.
Howard Mehring (1931–1978) was a twentieth-century painter born in Washington, D.C.
John Mix Stanley was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man. In 1842 he traveled to the American West to paint Native American life. In 1846 he exhibited a gallery of 85 of his paintings in Cincinnati and Louisville. During the Mexican–American War, he joined Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney's expedition to California and painted accounts of the campaign, as well as aspects of the Oregon Territory.
The American University Museum is located within the Katzen Arts Center at the American University in Washington, DC.
Garnet Wolesey Jex was an American artist and historian. Born in Kent, Ohio, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C., at the age of four. He remained in the Washington area until his death.
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
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.
Pietro Lazzari was an Italian-American artist and sculptor. He is known for his sculptures, paintings, murals, illustrations and printmaking.
CatharineCarter Critcher was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, she worked in Paris and Washington, D.C. before becoming, in 1924, a member of the Taos Society of Artists, the only woman ever elected to that body.
Jeanne Patterson Miles (1908–1990) was an American abstract painter and sculptor.
Margaret C. Gates (1903–1989) was an American artist, painter, art teacher and administrator who participated in the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture under the Treasury Department, creating the post office mural for Mebane, North Carolina, and a watercolor which was held at Fort Stanton in New Mexico. In addition, she has paintings held in several noted collections in the United States.
Mary Gine Riley was an American painter. Her middle name is sometimes given as Grimes.
Bertha Eversfield Perrie was an American painter. She has been described as "about the only famous Washington artist who was actually born in D.C."
Daisy Blanche King was an American painter and sculptor.
Gladys Nelson Smith was an American painter.
Nelly Summeril McKenzie Tolman (1877–1961) was an American painter.
Jack Boul is an artist and teacher based in Washington, D.C., whose oil paintings, monotypes and sculpture are included in museums including the National Gallery of Art and the The Phillips Collection.
