The Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C., United States
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1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA
Washington, D.C., United States
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$10 (Tue-Fri by donation)
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The Phillips Collection opened in Washington, D.C. in 1921, founded by collector and critic Duncan Phillips as what he called a museum of modern art and its sources. Rather than treating modernism as a break from tradition, Phillips displayed contemporary work alongside the Old Masters and 19th-century painters who influenced it.
The museum's best-known painting is Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, which Phillips purchased in 1923 and considered the centerpiece of his collection. Earlier landscape traditions are represented by Camille Corot's Rome, View from the Farnese Gardens and George Inness's Lake Albano (Italy).
The museum's modernist holdings include Piet Mondrian's Self Portrait, one of the sources Phillips traced forward into abstraction.
