McFadden Collection on Exhibit
ID: 2002-12213
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1920s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 27, Folder 10
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The John Howard McFadden Collection of British Old Masters on display in the National Collection of Fine Arts galleries (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) at the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History), in the East Room. Photo shows twelve paintings hung on the exhibit walls. A bust sculpture sits on pedestal in the center of the room center foreground. Paintings in next gallery are visible through doorway at far end of long wall. Above the exhibit walls is a partial view of the second floor structure of the USNM building. John Howard McFadden donated the collection of British Old Masters, 43 portraits and landscapes of the British School, to the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, and the collection was displayed at the NCFA from 1923 to 1928, while that museum was being built.
Subject
- McFadden, John Howard Art collections
- National Collection of Fine Arts
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- United States National Museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Natural History Building
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Original negative number is 22577Lx. For additional information, see the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1923, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925, pp. 52-53, and Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929, p. 55. See also Catalogue of the collection of pictures formed by John H. McFadden, esq. of Philadelphia, Pa., by W. Roberts. London, Privately printed at the Chiswick press, 1917.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 27, Folder 10
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1920s
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Art
- Art museums
- McFadden Collection of British Old Masters
- Exhibitions
- Painting
- Art objects
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
ID Number
2002-12213
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print