Tuesday, October 6, 2015

It was Andrew Mellon's personal art collection that started the West gallery of art...........he had the building designed............



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    1937 Andrew Mellon and the National Gallery of Art | The ...

    www.philanthropyroundtable.org/...arts.../1937_andrew_mellon_and_th...
    Mellon died in 1937, leaving his art collection to the United States as promised. His foundation funded the creation of what is now known as the West Building of  ...


    About - National Gallery of Art

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    West Building: Design, Construction, and Dedication Andrew Mellon selected American architect John Russell Pope (1874–1937) to design the building for the  ...

    Mellon, Andrew W. - Art History Research Databases

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    Both of Andrew Mellon's children continued in their father's tradition of art patronage. ... Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Junta records 1882-1984  ...

    Andrew W. Mellon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    He was educated at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the ... Andrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new President Warren G. .... In 1937, he donated his substantial art collection, collected at a cost of $25 million  ...

    National Gallery of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. ...The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building  ...
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