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Visit
Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is always free

6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565

Only have an hour to spend?

We've got you covered.
Exhibitions & Events
Upcoming Exhibition:

Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
Opens May 18
Art & Artists
Artle

A refreshed experience for our puzzle game
Today's puzzle

Katharina Fritsch, Hahn / Cock, 2013, painted glass fiber-reinforced polyester resin on stainless steel armature, Gift of the Glenstone Foundation in honor of the resilience of the American people during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020.23.1

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April 28, 2025

National Gallery of Art Exhibition Highlights Newly Acquired Gifts from the Collection of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson

Laurie Tylec

April 15, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Jazz in the Garden Season

April 9, 2025

Timothy Martin Found Guilty in Case of Vandalism Against Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”

Chris Abanavas

April 8, 2025

National Gallery of Art Launches New Program to Share Nation’s Art Collection with Museums Across the United States

Chris Abanavas

Four women with pale, peach skin, wearing long white dresses, stand or sit on a sunny beach in this wide, horizontal painting. People and carriages are painted as hazy gray silhouettes spread along the beach in the distance. The silhouettes span the left half of the horizon, which comes halfway up the painting. To our right, the water is a pale blue with loose strokes of white, light gray, and ice blue to suggest waves and surf. On the pale sand, three of the women sit close to us, huddled under two broad parasols on a brown blanket. Their bodies face the water, and their features and clothing are loosely painted. The woman closest to us has a white dress with lapis-blue bows down the front and a blue sash tied at her back. Her flat, round, straw-yellow hat is tied onto her head with a black bow. She wears a yellow glove on the hand we can see, and she props one parasol over her far shoulder. The inside of the parasol is bright blue, the outside cream white. The other two women sit together under the second parasol, also cream colored. In the center of the trio, the woman wears an olive-green shawl or wrap, and her reddish-brown hair might be loose over her shoulders. The third seated woman wears a bright red wrap and a dark hat. A bit behind these women, a fourth stands looking toward them or the water. She also wears a long white dress under a vivid red jacket and a small brown cap. She holds her skirt with one hand and touches her hat with another gloved hand. Another loosely painted form farther back along the beach appears to be a woman wearing black and holding a white parasol. The artist signed and dated the painting with the location in the bottom right corner: “W. H. 1874 East Hampton L. I.”

April 2, 2025

Related Programs: "Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World"

Laurie Tylec

January 23, 2025

National Gallery of Art Acquires Exceptional Manfred Heiting Library of Illustrated Books, Bound Volumes of Photographs, and Photobooks from the 16th to the 20th Century

Laurie Tylec

January 21, 2025

National Gallery of Art Appoints Michele Willens as Chief of Archives

Chris Abanavas

December 11, 2024

National Gallery of Art Appoints Andaleeb Badiee Banta as Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings

Chris Abanavas

December 10, 2024

National Gallery of Art Acquires Works by Contemporary Native American Artists That Offer Vital Viewpoints on Indigenous History and Culture

Laurie Tylec

December 2, 2024

National Gallery of Art Names Ryan Merkel Principal Gifts Officer

Chris Abanavas

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