Model of Proposed National Gallery of Art
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Form/Genre: Model
Date: 1939
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 06-225, Box 55
A model of the proposed National Gallery of Art designed by Eero Saarinen. This is the front side of the building. Funding was never secured for the new museum. The building would have housed the collection of what is now the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The original Neg # 73-13510. See Neg. #SIA2009-0444 for back of the building.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 06-225, Box 55
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1939
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Washington (D.C.)
SIA2009-0443
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Model; Medium: Photographic print