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Article: National Gallery Zooms In On Photo Collection
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- The Washington Post
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- May 26, 1995
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The National Gallery of Art, in a single swoop, has acquired 165
photographic masterpieces that vastly expand the range of its
collection, stretching its time line backward to embrace the entire
history of photography from its beginnings in Europe in the 1830s.
Until now, the National Gallery has collected photographs by only
a handful of 20th-century Americans.
The acquisition, announced yesterday, is part purchase, part gift
from the collection of Sausalito architect and art collector David
Robinson and his wife, Mary. Formed over the past dozen years, the
collection is precisely what the gallery has lacked: a strong history
of photography's first 100 years, from 1839 to 1939, spelled out ...