The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
America's first museum of modern art
Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is part of the museum's permanent collection.
El Greco, The Repentant St. Peter, c. 1600-1605. A highlight of the collection. Duncan Phillips called El Greco "the first impassioned expressionist."
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Photograph by Abbott of her friend Margarett Sargent taken in Paris in 1928
Abbott's photograph of Janet Flanner in 1925
Bowery restaurant photograph for Changing New York, 1935.