Image Collections
The library’s department of image collections is a study and research center predominantly for photographic images of Western art and architecture. It is one of the largest of its kind. Areas of particular strength include American, Dutch, French, and Italian art, the arts of Asia, and the architecture of France, Italy, and Germany.
Its holdings number more than 16 million photographs, slides, negatives, microforms, and digital images. The department serves a national and international audience that includes the National Gallery’s staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, scholars, and other interested researchers.
The library is open Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We are closed Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays.
To help us prepare materials ahead of your initial visit, we recommend you request an appointment.
Location
National Gallery of Art East Building
4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC
Mailing Address
Image Collections
National Gallery of Art
2000 South Club Drive
Landover, MD 20785
Contact [email protected] or call (202) 842-6026
Travels Across Russia: Oranienbaum
In Situ: Henry Moore, David Finn, and the Experience of Location
Verrocchio, Connoisseurship, and the Photographs of Clarence Kennedy
Before the Fire: Notre-Dame de Paris in Pictures
Travels Across Russia: Avant-Garde Architecture in Moscow
John Brampton Philpot and Photography in 19th-Century Florence
Beauty, Fire, & Memory: Lost Art of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
Process and Participation in the Work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Revelations from Reproductions:
Fifteenth-century Italian Paintings in the National Gallery of Art
The Solemnity of Shadows: Juan Laurent’s Vision of Spain
Patrimony in Peril: Germany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
War Damage in Baden and Württemberg: Monuments Men Albums
Travels across Russia: Ekaterinburg
Travels Across Russia: Torzhok
United States Centennial International Exhibition
Philadelphia - 1876