National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden is the most recent addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is located on the National Mall between the National Gallery's West Building and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Fountain in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
LocationBetween 7th and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW
Coordinates38.8913°N 77.0230°W / 38.8913; -77.0230
Area6.1 acres (2.5 ha)
Owned byNational Gallery of Art
Landscape ArchitectLaurie Olin
Websitehttps://www.nga.gov/visit/sculpture-garden.html

Completed and opened to the public on 23 May 1999, the location provides an outdoor setting for exhibiting several pieces from the museum's contemporary sculpture collection.[1] The collection is centered on a fountain which, from December to March, is converted to an ice-skating rink.[1] (Such a rink predated the construction of the garden.[1]) The outdoor Pavilion Café lies adjacent to the garden.[1]

Laurie Olin and his firm, OLIN, were the landscape architects who redesigned the garden.[2]

Works
Thinker on a Rock by Barry Flanagan, 1997
Metal tree sculpture titled Graft, by artist Roxy Paine, 2008
David Smith, Cubi XXVI, 1965

References
David Smith, Cubi XI, 1963
  1. "National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and Ice Skating Rink". Going Out Guide of the Washington Post. Updated 15 December 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2012-12-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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