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The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.Phillips was the grandson of James H.Laughlin, a banker and co founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.Among the artists represented in the collection are Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gustave Courbet, El Greco, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Arthur Dove, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Jacob Lawrence, Augustus Vincent Tack, Georgia OKeeffe, and Mark Rothko.

The Walter E.Washington Convention Center is a 2,300,000 square foot (210,000 m2) convention center located in Washington, D.C., USA, owned and operated by the city convention arm, Events DC.Designed by the Atlanta based architecture firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, the convention center is located in a superblock bounded by Mount Vernon Square and 7th, 9th and N streets, N.W.It is served by the Mount Vernon Square station on the Yellow and Green lines of the Washington Metro.It was completed in 2003.