National Gallery of Art
Overview
Andrew Mellon's gift to the nation, a neoclassical West Building by John Russell Pope and an East Building by I.M. Pei. The only Leonardo in the Americas, Ginevra de' Benci, with Vermeer, Rembrandt, Rothko, and the sculpture garden's Calder. Always free, funded by private gift.
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