DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Exhibit: Have a Look: Selections from the GW Collection:
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Description of Pictures: Have a Look: Selections from the GW Collection
February 7, 2019 to Sat, March 23, 2019
Collecting since 1821, GW holds many “hidden” treasures ranging from an early painting by the famed painter Fernando Botero, to a trove of over 152 photographs by Andy Warhol. “Have a Look: Selections from the GW Collection” features works gifted to the collection from 1968 to 2018.
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LOOK_190312_56.JPG: Future Home of Works from the Corcoran Study Collection and the GW Collection
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Rug, 2017
LOOK_190312_68.JPG: Howard Hodgkin
Venice: Morning, 1995
LOOK_190312_75.JPG: Howard Hodgkin
Venice: Afternoon, 1995
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Wikipedia Description: Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
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The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (originally the Corcoran School of Art and, until 2014, the Corcoran College of the Arts and Design), established in 1878, is an art and design school in Washington, D.C., United States. In 2014, the formerly independent college and the Corcoran Gallery of Art closed, with school operations being assumed by the George Washington University (GWU), and the gallery collection given free to the National Gallery of Art.
The Corcoran School is part of GWU's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
History
William Wilson Corcoran founded the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1869. Construction had begun at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in 1859, but shortly after the exterior work was completed, the Quartermaster General's corps of the Union Army occupied the building, setting up offices for the duration of the Civil War.
Work resumed immediately after the conclusion of the war, with Corcoran formally founding his gallery as an institution in 1869. The first special event held that year was a fundraiser for the completion of the Washington Monument. Corcoran's gallery welcomed its first visitors in 1874 and art students immediately flocked to the gallery, eager to sketch and paint copies of the collection's famous works.
In 1877 the painter E.F. Andrews (1835–1915) started offering the visiting students and artists formal instruction in two dimensional media for no cost to the student. In 1878 William Wilson Corcoran donated additional funding to be used to establish a school to be associated with the gallery. After Corcoran's 1888 death, a small building was built in 1889 for the purpose of the gallery's burgeoning identity as a place for education in the arts. In 1890 the school officially opened as the Corcoran School of Art.
By the 1890s, both the gallery and the school programs had outgrown their respective spaces. A new, larger bu ...More...
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2018_DC_Corc_Truths: DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Exhibit: We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident (41 photos from 2018)
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
three trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
That's it so far!