Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was one of the oldest privately supported cultural institutions in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.The museum main focus was American art.In 2014 the museum closed, leaving its 17,000 work collection to the National Gallery of Art.Prior to its dispersal, the permanent collection included works by Rembrandt Peale, Eug?ne Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Gene Davis, and many others.Founded in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran, the Corcoran was the oldest and largest non federal art museum in the District of Columbia.Its mission was dedicated to art and used solely for the purpose of encouraging the American genius.