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| Duncan and Marjorie Phillips in front of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81), ca. 1954. Photo: Naomi Savage |
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More About the Exhibition
Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), founder of The Phillips Collection, was the heir to the Pittsburgh, Pa., steel fortune of Jones and Laughlin. He spent more than 50 years assembling his extraordinary collection of European and American works, said to be among the best in private hands. His goal was to acquire works that resonate off one another, revealing visual harmonies that tied together the historical masterworks with the art of his own time. In 1921 he opened two rooms of his Washington, D.C., family home to the public, becoming the first museum of modern art in the country. This exhibition focuses on the European treasures in the museum's holdings.
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