National Gallery of Art

About the organization

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.