The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden is the most recent addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is located in the National Mall between the National Gallery's West Building and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
Completed and opened to the public on May 23, 1999, the location provides an outdoor setting for exhibiting several pieces from the museum's contemporary sculpture collection. The collection is centered on a fountain which, from December to March, is converted to an ice-skating rink. (Such a rink predated the construction of the garden.) The outdoor Pavilion Café lies adjacent to the garden.
Laurie Olin and his firm, OLIN, were the landscape architects who redesigned the garden.
Works
Claes Oldenburg; Coosje van Bruggen, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999 Joan Miró, Personnage Gothique, Oiseau-Eclair, 1974/1977 Louise Bourgeois, Spider, 1996/1997 Tony Smith, Wandering Rocks, 1967 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Puellae, 1992 Mark di Suvero, Aurora, 1992–93 Scott Burton, Six-Part Seating, 1985/1998 Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 1989 Ellsworth Kelly, Stele II, 1973 Barry Flanagan, Thinker on a Rock, 1997 Sol LeWitt, Four-Sided Pyramid, 1965 Lucas Samaras, Chair Transformation Number 20B, 1996 Tony Smith, Moondog, 1964 David Smith, Cubi XI, 1963 David Smith, Cubi XXVI, 1965 Alexander Calder, Cheval Rouge, 1974 Roy Lichtenstein, House I, 1996/1998 George Rickey, Cluster of Four Cubes, 1992 Hector Guimard, An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain, 1902/1913 Roxy Paine, Graft, 2008–2009 Robert Indiana, AMOR, 1998/2006
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