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The John Wilmerding collection: a scholar's gift to the National Gallery of Art.
At a dinner last May to celebrate an exhibition of paintings and drawings from his personal collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., John Wilmerding astonished the guests by announcing that the artworks on display would remain in the museum as his gift to the nation. (1) As the gallery's former senior curator of American art and deputy director, Wilmerding knew its collection well, and over a long period of time had thoughtfully acquired works that both filled gaps and built on strengths. (2) His gift brings to the National Gallery its first painting by George Caleb Bingham, its first oil from Winslow Homer's important Cullercoats period, its first ...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vermeer's paintings are familiar...in front of the paintings at the National Gallery was not one of quiet veneration...to Dresden as a Rembrandt!) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though...
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