LC control no. | n 79054426 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Variant(s) | Kokuritsu Bijutsukan (U.S.) Mellon Gallery of Art National Art Gallery (U.S.) Nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ kartinnai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡ (U.S.) Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art United States. National Gallery of Art Washington (D.C.). National Gallery of Art |
See also | National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) Hierarchical superior: Smithsonian Institution |
Biography/History note | The National Gallery of Art was established 1937 through the gift of Andrew W. Mellon, to the United States, of a collection of paintings and of a fund for housing and maintenance thereof. |
Beginning date | 1937 |
Associated country | United States |
Found in | Kokuritsu Bijutsukan, mappu to gairyaku annai, 1996? Its Karta i putevoditelʹ, Nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ kartinnai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡, Vashington, 2009. Smithsonian year, 1969: page 623 (The National Gallery of Art, although technically established as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, is an autonomous and separately administered organization and is governed by its own Board of Trustees) |