Renwick Gallery Grand Salon Reopens, June, 2000
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PrintThe Grand Salon of American Art's Renwick Gallery reopened to the public after six months of renovations. The salon now houses a new selection of 170 paintings hung side by side and one above another, known as salon style. Other new components of the Grand Salon include hand-dyed silk loomed draperies of French Imberline damask, a state of the art lighting system that mimics natural light, and a refurbished crystal chandelier.
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The Torch-No. 00-7, 10, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession: 05-298
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
June, 2000
Washington (D.C.)