The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection is an art museum in Washington, DC

History

Founded as the Phillips Collection in 1921 as the first museum of modern art in the United States by the patron Duncan Phillips ( 1886-1966 ) and his wife Marjorie ( 1894-1985 ). Originally opened in one room of her house, the collection grew rapidly, so the family moved out in 1930 and the whole house became a museum. Marjorie Phillips was herself a painter and Duncan Phillips heir to a considerable fortune, which his grandfather had made ​​in the banking and steel business. In 1989, the museum complex has been renovated and enlarged, thus further room could be obtained especially for traveling exhibitions.

Collection

The collection includes works by El Greco, Paul Klee, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whistler, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Degas, Édouard Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso. Only Georges Braque is represented by 13 cubist works. It also focuses on works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Pierre Bonnard and Mark Rothko. His most famous work among the over 2000 works of art is surely the breakfast of the Boating Party by Pierre- Auguste Renoir.

Gallery

El Greco: The repentant Peter

Honoré Daumier: The uprising

Edouard Manet: The Spanish Ballet

Alfred Sisley: Snow in Louveciennes

Edgar Degas: Dancers at the barre

Vincent van Gogh: Entrance to the Park at Arles

Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Amelia van Buren

Amedeo Modigliani: Portrait of Elena Pavlowski