National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden is the most recent addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is located in the National Mall between the National Gallery's West Building and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
LocationBetween 7th and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW
Coordinates38.8913°N 77.0230°W / 38.8913; -77.0230
Area6.1 acres (2.5 ha)
OpenedMay 23, 1999
Owned byNational Gallery of Art
Landscape ArchitectLaurie Olin
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Completed and opened to the public on May 23, 1999, the location provides an outdoor setting for exhibiting several pieces from the museum's contemporary sculpture collection.[1] The collection is centered on a fountain which, from December to March, is converted to an ice-skating rink.[1] (Such a rink predated the construction of the garden.[1]) The outdoor Pavilion Café lies adjacent to the garden.[1]

Laurie Olin and his firm, OLIN, were the landscape architects who redesigned the garden.[2]

Works

References
  1. "National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and Ice Skating Rink". The Washington Post. September 14, 2010. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
  2. "National Gallery of Art, Sculpture Garden". National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  3. "Robert Indiana: AMOR". National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
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