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Article: A Cornerstone of Beauty; From the Ground Up, a Corcoran Centennial
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- The Washington Post
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- May 11, 1994
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A 100th anniversary was celebrated yesterday afternoon at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
It wasn't the centennial of the founding of the gallery in
1869, nor of its debut - in what is now the Renwick - in 1874. Nor
was it the anniversary of the Corcoran's new building, for which the
ground was bro laid for that extraordinary structure - which gives
us an excuse to celebrate its virtues, contemplate its future,
ponder, sigh and cheer.
The museum designed by Ernest Flagg (its mood is beaux-arts
French, its style "Neo-Grec") looks a bit distressed. The gaudy
red-and-yellow banners newly bolted to its broad marble brow do it a
disservice, as does the dated and galumphing welded-steel ...