| LC control no. | n 79046255 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Phillips Collection |
| Variant(s) | Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. |
| See also | Predecessor: Phillips Memorial Gallery |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) |
| Found in | Watkins, C. L. The language of design, 1946. Phillips Collection WWW home page, May 16, 2001 (Phillips Memorial Gallery established in 1918 by Duncan Phillips and his mother; started with two galleries in their home) The Phillips Collection, via WWW, June 8, 2023 (The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was opened in 1921 in historic Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, by collector and philanthropist Duncan Phillips.(1886-1966); Mr. Phillips and his mother founded the museum in late 1918; it was originally called the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, and it opened to the public in the fall of 1921 in a specially designed room added onto the second floor of the family home; as the collection grew, the family moved out of their Dupont Circle home to a new residence in 1930, allowing the entire house to become a dedicated space for the museum; Duncan Phillips married painter Marjorie Acker (1894-1985) in 1921, shortly before the museum opened, and she became his partner in developing The Phillips Collection) |
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