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The
National
Gallery
of
Art,
and
its
attached
Sculpture
Garden,
is
a
national
art
museum
in
Washington,
D.C.,
located
on
the
National
Mall,
between
3rd
and
9th
Streets,
at
Constitution
Avenue
NW.
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.
Andrew
W.
Mellon
donated
a
substantial
art
collection
and
funds
for
construction.
The
core
collection
includes
major
works
of
art
donated
by
Paul
Mellon,
Ailsa
Mellon
Bruce,
Lessing
J.
Rosenwald,
Samuel
Henry
Kress,
Rush
Harrison
Kress,
Peter
Arrell
Browne
Widener,
Joseph
E.
Widener,
and
Chester
Dale.
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.
The
Gallery's
campus
includes
the
original
neoclassical
West
Building
designed
by
John
Russell
Pope,
which
is
linked
underground
to
the
modern
East
Building,
designed
by
I.
M.
Pei,
and
the
6.1-acre
(25,000
m2)
Sculpture
Garden.
The
Gallery
often
presents
temporary
special
exhibitions
spanning
the
world
and
the
history
of
art.
It
is
one
of
the
largest
museums
in
North
America.
For
the
breadth,
scope,
and
magnitude
of
its
collections,
the
National
Gallery
is
widely
considered
to
be
one
of
the
greatest
museums
in
the
United
States
of
America,
often
ranking
alongside
the
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
and
Museum
of
Modern
Art
in
New
York
City,
the
Art
Institute
of
Chicago
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
and
the
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Boston
in
Boston,
Massachusetts.
Of
the
top
three
art
museums
in
the
United
States
by
annual
visitors,
it
is
the
only
one
that
has
no
admission
fee.
It
ranks
2nd
in
American
museums
behind
the
Met
for
number
of
annual
visitors
and
10th
in
the
world.
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