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In 1999, the school was formally renamed as The Corcoran College of Art and Design and worked to further its reputation as the singular four-year arts and design institution in Washington, D.C. [4] As a museum school, students and faculty benefited from co-existing with the Corcoran Gallery with its more than 17,000 works and objects. In the ...
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran , the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States.
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William Wilson Corcoran commissions architect James Renwick, Jr., to design a public museum to display his collection of American art. This building is the first in the United States designed expressly as an art museum.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art (today the Renwick Gallery) is erected at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
August 22: The United States Army seizes the unfinished Corcoran Gallery of Art building for use as a warehouse to store records and uniforms for the Quartermaster General’s Corps.
The United States returns control of The Renwick Gallery to W.W. Corcoran. May 10: W.W. Corcoran deeds the building and grounds and a private collection valued at $100,000 to the nine members of a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. The Corcoran Board of Trustees proposes and approves bylaws.
January 19: The Corcoran Gallery opens to the public. The Board of Trustees holds its First Annual Meeting.
E.F. Andrews is elected instructor in drawing for the Gallery (his title is later changed to Principal).
April 18: The Trustees, finding that the gallery has outgrown the Renwick building, purchase a lot a few blocks south at 17th Street and New York Avenue.
June: Ground is broken at 17th Street New York Avenue for a new Beaux-Arts building, designed by architect Ernest Flagg, to house both the museum and the school.
May 10: The cornerstone of the new Corcoran Gallery is laid on the 25th anniversary of W.W. Corcoran’s deeding the Gallery to the Board of Trustees.
February 22: The formal opening of the new Corcoran building, designed by Ernest Flagg and housing the Gallery and School, takes place with thousands of guests in attendance, including President Grover Cleveland.
GW's Corcoran School of the Arts & Design is an incubator for artists, activists and designers, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in Washington, D.C.
Corcoran made his fortune during an era when many successful businessmen and industrialists were investing money to endow charitable and educational institutions such as hospitals, orphanages, universities, libraries and museums.
Feb 19, 2014 · The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington’s oldest private art museum, and its venerable college of art and design would cease to exist as an independent institution, and its key components —...
Oct 4, 2014 · A photojournalism student at the Corcoran College of Art + Design responds to a museum's demise the only way she knows how — creatively.
