Denys Collection on Display at National Museum in 1921

Summary

F. Ward Denys Collection exhibited in the Central Hall of the National Gallery of Art, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in December 1922. The Gallery was located in the United States National Museum building, now the National Museum of Natural History. Photograph shows large picture flanked by two smaller ones filling the end wall of a small gallery. End wall fills all but a margin right and left. Pictures hanging on walls adjoining the end wall are visible in this margin.

Subject

• National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian
• National Collection of Fine Arts
• National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Smithsonian Gallery of Art

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The old negative number is 22578A.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 311, Box 30, Folder 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1921

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Art
• Art museums
• Collectors and collecting
• Exhibitions
• Art objects
• Art--Collectors and collecting
• Art--Exhibitions
• Art--United States
• Denys, F. Ward

Place

United States

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

2002-32211

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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