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Find Books & Journals
Search the Library catalog for books, periodicals, vertical files, and publications on the history, theory, and criticism of art.
Databases & Other Links (On-site Only)
Search the Library's online databases for books, dissertations, reference works, peridocal indexes, and some full-text articles and essays.
Find Auction Catalogs
Search the Library's collection of art auction catalogues from the seventeenth century to the present.
Find Images
Search the Library's Image Collections catalog for photographs, negatives, slides, microforms, digital files and reproductive prints of Western art and architecture.
Core Photograph Collections
These groups, because of their size or scope, make up the foundation of the photographic collections
Image Collections Copyright Information
Reproduction, Copyright, and Notes to Researchers
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Location:
National Gallery of Art
East Building
4th Street, NW and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Mailing Address:
Library or Image Collections
National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, MD 20785
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M: 12:00 noon - 4:30 p.m.
Tu-F: 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(except federal holidays)
Call for appointment:
Library: (202) 842-6511
Image Collections: (202) 842-6026
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