Current Photo Friday theme: Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996
Shot on film with Canon AE-1
This is one of the places Amy, Tom, and I visited when we volunteered at the NAMES Project’s AIDS Quilt display. Founded in 1869, the Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum. The Beaux Arts building that housed it was designed by Ernest Flagg and opened in 1897.
When the museum closed in 2014, the National Gallery acquired approximately half of the Corcoran Collection, and the remaining objects were distributed to other museums in the Washington, D.C., area. The building is now home to the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, part of George Washington University. Located at 500 17th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Beautiful lion’s head sculpture! Your photo brings out all the nuances.
I love museums and was going to do a post as well, but time got away again. Oh well! Have a good weekend.
It’s never too late! Thank you for your kind words.
I agree that is a beautiful photo, the stories these things tell.
Thank you. Fortunately, because my scanner wouldn’t talk to my new computer, I had a different scanner that will. So I can finally access a lot of the photos in my albums, because I have so many that were only on computers and never printed.
Oh, it’s a shame the museum closed, but good that a school has filled the space.