Collection of The Phillips Collection


The Phillips Collection was founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 and was the first museum of modern art in the United States.  Phillips originally housed the collection in galleries in his home, which is now the southern section of the museum building.  The museum is located in Washington, DC’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood.  The permanent collection features Impressionist and modern American and European works and includes artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, El Greco, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honoré Daumier, Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Diebenkorn, among others.


1886 Le Moulin de la Galette Drawing Le-Moulin-de-la-Galette
1888 Entrance to the Public Park in Arles Painting Entrance-to-the-Public-Park-in-Arles
1889 Road Menders, The Painting Road-Menders,-The
1890 Wheat Field at Auvers with White House Painting Wheat-Field-at-Auvers-with-White-House





The Old Tower in the Fields Starry Night Over the Rhone The De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Paul Hospital
The Old Tower in the Fields Starry Night Over the Rhone The De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam Mountainous Landscape Behind Saint-Paul Hospital
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