Richard McLanathan

The idea of the East Building really goes back to Andrew Mellon. When the originál gallery-the West Building as we now call it-was completed in 1941, the collection that he gave fiiled only five of its 135 galleries. Yet his vision of the future was such that, though he was giving a building...

Preface A mono the many artists that America has produced, Gilbert Stuart must rank among those in the top echelon. Though he limited himself to the traditional field of portraiture, a category of art that seems today as obsolete as tiewigs and three-cornered hats, he enriched and enlarged it...