Here Are the 6,430 Works That the National Gallery of Art Is Acquiring From the Corcoran — artnews.com

Today the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., released a list of works it is acquiring from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which voted last year to dissolve after years of financial woes. The list is massive, numbering some 6,430 objects and 1,170 pages. As a PDF file, rich with thumbnails of the works, it is 69.9 megabytes. Randy Kennedy of The New York Times has a thorough report on what the NGA is taking on, and the six-month process that led to this announcement, and he notes that more works will still be acquired since NGA curators are still hard at work looking through the Corcoran’s collection.

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