Fall 1999 - Welcome to the National Gallery
of Art in Washington DC. Above is the fountain room on the west side
of the main gallery floor. You can frequently find people just relaxing
around the fountain lost in their thoughts, away from the hustle and bustle
of living and working in the capitol of the nation. Please enjoy
some of our photos of the main gallery as well as the West Building of
the National Gallery, which currently has a showing of Mary Cassatt's work.
To see the larger and complete image click on thumbnails...
From Jonathan Mills:
"I enjoyed your pictures of the National Gallery...
especially the excellent photo of the fountain with
the cherubs holding the lyre. As a longtime Washington
resident, I would like to pass along a correction or
two.
Most important, what you repeatedly call the West
Building is in fact the *East* Building. Just because
we're on a round planet doesn't mean there's no
difference ;-) The West Building is the original
building with the dome on top.
As long as we're talking about points of the compass,
what you call the "fountain room on the west side" is
actually on the east side, and it's called the East
Garden Court. There is a very similar West Garden
Court at the other end of the building, with a nearly
identical fountain (the cherubs are holding a goose
instead of a lyre)." -J
Outside West Building Mary Cassatt
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Entrance to National Gallery
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Close up of Fountain
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Sculpture - Outside West Building
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Sculpture - West Building
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Sculpture - West Building
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Sculpture Garden
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Sculpture Garden
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Fountain at the Sculpture Garden
with National Archives in background
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