National Gallery given 51 works
John Wilmerding, a leading authority on American art, has donated his collection of 19th century American art to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The 51-piece gift encompasses landscapes, still-lifes, portraits and genre scenes by such artists as George Caleb Bingham, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer.
The gallery will unveil the Wilmerding collection in a special exhibition Sunday through Oct. 10. Wilmerding was deputy director of the gallery in the 1980s and built his collection with an eye on complementing its American art holdings.
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Suzanne Muchnic
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