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The '''National Gallery of Art''' is an [[art]] [[museum]], located in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1937 by the US Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by [[Andrew W. Mellon]] in 1937; other donors were Lessing J. Rosenwald (22,000 prints and drawings),  Samuel H. Kress, Paul Mellon and the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the son and daughter of the founder, Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch and Joseph E. Widener with more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, decorative art, and porcelains. Two buildings comprise the National Gallery of Art: the West Building (architect John Russell Pope, 1941), and the East Building (architect [[I. M. Pei]], 1978). The design for the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden was created by Laurie D. Olin, landscape architect.

The '''National Gallery of Art''' is an [[art]] [[museum]], located in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1937 by the US Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1937; other donors were Lessing J. Rosenwald (22,000 prints and drawings),  Samuel H. Kress, Paul Mellon and the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the son and daughter of the founder, Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch and Joseph E. Widener with more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, decorative art, and porcelains. Two buildings comprise the National Gallery of Art: the West Building (architect John Russell Pope, 1941), and the East Building (architect [[I. M. Pei]], 1978). The design for the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden was created by Laurie D. Olin, landscape architect, and a socialist.