The National Gallery of Art is selecting over six thousand works of art from the Corcoran collection скачать в хорошем качестве

The National Gallery of Art is selecting over six thousand works of art from the Corcoran collection

(5 Feb 2015) OVER SIX THOUSAND PRIZED WORKS OF ART ARE JOINING THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN WASHINGTON, DC. IN A SMALL EXHIBITION ON THE MAIN FLOOR, VISITORS HAVE A TASTE OF WHAT IS ABOUT TO BE ADDED TO IN A SHOW TITLED "AMERICAN MASTERWORKS FROM THE CORCORAN". THE CORCORAN MUSEUM - ANOTHER MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON THAT WAS PRIVATELY FUNDED - STRUGGLED WITH FINANCIAL ISSUES AND EVENTUALLY CLOSED IN LAST YEAR. NOW THE NATIONAL GALLERY IS ACQUIRING SOME OF THE WORKS, BRINGING ANOTHER DIMENSION TO THE ENTIRE COLLECTION. SOUNDBITE: Earl Powell, Director National Gallery of Art: "It is a transformative acquisition for the national gallery of art, or a group of acquisitions. it is a museum collection of great distinction that is being melded with and incorporated into the national gallery's great collections." WORKS ADDED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY RANGE FROM THIS 1860 PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS HE'S ABOUT TO ASSUME THE PRESIDENCY, BY GEORGE PETER ALEXANDER HEALY ... TO THIS 1939 PRE-WORLD WAR TWO PAINTING BY EDWARD HOPPER, TITLED "GROUND SWELL." FROM RICH SOCIETY MATRONS IMMORTALIZED BY JOHN SINGER SARGEANT .... TO LONGSHOREMEN IN THE 1870S ON THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK ON THEIR LUNCHTIME BREAK SOUNDBITE: Sarah Cash, Consulting Curator, National Gallery of Art: "We sort of have a slice of American life down at the docks, people of different races, perhaps some recent immigrants who are there working together and, its not just a lunchtime. These men are actually engaged in conversation, there's some storytelling going on in the painting." ANOTHER PRIZED WORK THAT COMES TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY IS FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH'S "NIAGARA." OF 1857 ... ONE OF THE GREAT PAINTED VIEWS OF AN ICONIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. SOUNDBITE: FRANKLIN KELLY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR - NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART "And Church did a number of things - he took away all foreground, as if you're suspended right there, about to fall in the water. he shows both the expanse, the great vista ... and then, he does the minute - the water, in its frenzy as its going over the rocks, so that you can see it in detail and in its vastness." IN ALL, TWENTY NINE PAINTINGS AND TWO SCUPLTURES, EACH AN AMERICAN MASTERWORK FROM THE CORCORAN ARE ON DISPLAY THROUGH EARLY SPRING BEFORE PERMANENTLY JOINING THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. TOM RITCHIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...