Day Ten: Corcoran Gallery of Art - Woodward Table (lunch) - United States Capitol

A rainy day going about Washington. First stop is the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In my database, it has 12 artists: Bierstadt, Church, Cole, Cropsey, Durand, Gifford, Haseltine, Heade, Homer, Huntington, Kensett, and Whittredge.

The Bierstadts include:
Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-77


The Last of the Buffalo, 1888


Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869

I apologize for the quality of the picture, but the painting is 20 feet off the ground ("Salon style").

The best Frederic Church there is Niagara, 1857


Martin Johnson Heade: View of Marshfield, c. 1866-76


Sanford Robinson Gifford: Ruins of the Parthenon, 1880


And ... I discovered two paintings/artists that I certainly DID NOT EXPECT:

JMW Turner: Boats Carrying Out Anchors to the Dutch Men of War, c. 1804


Claude Monet: The Willows, 1880


We walked past the White House on a rainy day


After a great lunch at Woodward Table, over to the US Capitol

where we waited in the "no reservations" line for 1/2 hour (but then we got in on a tour - along with about 200 students from Dalton). After going through the Old Supreme Justices Chamber, and the Crypt, I saw ONE OF THE BIERSTADTS

Discovery of the Hudson River, 1874




Entrance into Monterey, 1876


Click Here to link to a wonderful House.gov article about the two Beirstadt paintings

That's it for our last day in DC - off to Baltimore and Delaware tomorrow!