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Flagg also designed the interior of the building. Upon entering the building's front doors on 17th Street, you first enter the 170-by-50-foot (52 m × 15 m) atrium. The vast space, separated into three connected sections, consists of forty limestone columns and twin skylights (to light
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Directly across the atrium from the front entrance stands the grand staircase, leading to the second floor. Low rise stairs, 16 feet (4.9 m) wide, are watched over by six statues on pedestals atop marble platforms, and lead to a landing halfway to the second floor. Hold onto the brass-topped
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In 2014, following years of negligence and financial mismanagement, a lawsuit was brought by the law firm Gibson Dunn on behalf of the group, Save the Corcoran, against the trustees. After two weeks of hearings, Judge Okum ordered the Corcoran, the city's oldest independent museum, dissolved. The
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became involved in the controversy over Mapplethorpe's work. It was at this time that Nesbitt, a longtime friend of Mapplethorpe, revealed that he had a $ 1.5 million bequest to the museum in his will. Nesbitt publicly promised that if the museum refused to host the exhibition he would revoke his
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building, and gave $ 50 million to George Washington University to renovate the facility and operate the school programs. The 17,000-piece art collection, worth $ 2 billion, was donated to the National Gallery of Art. At the beginning of 2018, the director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and
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At the northern end of the building, the Hemicycle's unusual shape fills the angle created by New York Avenue and 17th Street. The space is the auditorium, being 67 by 45 feet (20 m × 14 m) with a 300-person capacity. The Salon DorĂŠ appears on the building's opposite side. Also
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was opened in 1897. Due to a prolonged economic shortfall, the Gallery failed in October 2014; pursuant to its founding charter, its art school and building transferred to GWU and the 19,456 works in its collection were distributed to other public museums and institutions in Washington, D.C.,
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In its final years, the museum and its affiliated Corcoran College of Art and Design together had a staff of about 140 and an operating budget of about $ 24 million. Revenue came from grants and contributions, admissions fees, tuition, membership dues, gift shop and restaurant sales, and an
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In 2015, preservationists added the interior portions of the Corcoran Gallery to the National Register of Historic Places (the exterior had been listed in 1971). The interior nomination includes the grand staircase, atrium, rotunda, gallery, and other notable spaces.
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In 2014, after decades of financial problems and alleged mismanagement, the Corcoran was dissolved by court order. A new non-profit was established by the trustees and the Corcoran's $ 2 billion, 17,000-piece art collection was given away for free to the
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railing for balance. From the grand staircase, one can access the rotunda and the second story level of the atrium, including a bridge that heads across the atrium back towards the direction of the front door. Gallery space exists throughout.
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style. The 135,000 square feet (12,500 m) building was built to house an expanded Corcoran collection in addition to the nascent school, which had been formally founded in 1890. The new building features a pair of bronze statues, the
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Founded in 1890, the Corcoran School began with 40 students and two faculty members. It was later renamed the Corcoran College of Art + Design in the 1990s, where it coexisted with the gallery. The museum's main focus was
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Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the gallery continued to display its main collection from Corcoran, Clark, and a few select major donors. At its peak, the museum owned a significant collection including work from
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As a result of the controversy, more than a dozen artists canceled exhibitions, funding and membership declined, and staff resigned in protest. By the end of 1989 Orr-Cahall had resigned as museum director.
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Back on the first floor, three galleries lead from the atrium (originally there were seven). The second floor originally had eight galleries. The rotunda came later, designed by
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from the Corcoran collection had been incorporated into displays at the gallery; these four paintings are among those currently visible in the rooms dedicated to American art.
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served as curator from 1962 to 1964. During the 1980s museum attendance swelled and the Corcoran's events and programs were imitated by other institutions.
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the intended display of sculptures). The Beaux-Arts-inspired room rises two interior stories and has housed exhibit space and other uses.
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By 1897, the Corcoran Gallery collection outgrew the space of its original building. A new building was constructed, designed by
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Design officially disclosed plans for the National Gallery of Art to bring art back to the second floor of the Flagg building.
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After the Corcoran cancelled the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit
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referred to as the "French Room", it displays intricate French decorations; it was designed in the early 1700s by
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Hand-colored photomechanical print showing the original Corcoran Gallery of Art building, 1885, now known as the
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in 1925. Forty eight feet wide, the room's domed ceiling culminates in an oculus skylight. Reminiscent of the
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joined the Corcoran in a new wing designed by Charles Adam Platt, which was inaugurated by President
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In 1989, the Corcoran Gallery of Art agreed to host a traveling solo exhibit of
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galleries in the country. Corcoran established the gallery, supported with an
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trustees gave the Corcoran College of Art and Design the $ 200 million
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art was originally located at 17th Street and
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and was moved from Paris to the United States sometime before 1904.
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Index

Corcoran Museum of Art
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Washington, D.C.
Corcoran Gallery of Art is located in Central Washington, D.C.
Corcoran Gallery of Art is located in the District of Columbia
Corcoran Gallery of Art is located in the United States
Washington, D.C.
38°53′45″N 77°02′24″W / 38.8958°N 77.0399°W / 38.8958; -77.0399
Ernest Flagg
Beaux Arts
71000997
art museum
Washington, D.C.
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
George Washington University
William Wilson Corcoran
Beaux-Arts
The Ellipse
National Gallery of Art
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
George Washington University
American art
National Gallery of Art
George Washington University

Renwick Gallery
William Wilson Corcoran
Riggs Bank

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