Kress Collection and the bequest of the Chester Dale Collection, both in 1963, added excellent French and Italian drawings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lessing Rosenwald began the largest and most important gift in 1943 by giving the museum over the course of thirty-six years his collection of 22,000 old master and modern prints and drawings, including outstanding medieval miniatures and drawings by Rembrandt, Nanteuil, Daumier, Blake, Whistler, and Cassatt.
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Widener, including a fine group of Rembrandt drawings, plus 350 designs for French eighteenth-century drawings for book illustrations. The first sizable gifts of graphic art, nearly 2,000 works, came in 1942 with the donation of the entire collection of Joseph E.
Through the generosity of benefactors great and small, the Gallery's collection of drawings has grown steadily and impressively over the years. The rapid pace of its growth is even more remarkable when one considers that every work of art has been acquired as a gift or through the donation of private funds for its purchase no federal funds have ever been used for this purpose. The National Gallery’s 31,000 drawings, watercolors and pastels date from the eleventh century to the present, including some of the finest Italian, German, and French works in this country, as well as important works by Winslow Homer and Georgia O’Keeffe and sizeable holdings of post-war American works on paper.Įstablished in 1941, the Gallery’s collection has achieved world-class stature in a short period of time when compared to other major collections of drawings in this country and venerable European institutions.
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