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."
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Duncan Phillips (art collector)
Duncan Phillips was a Washington, D.C., based art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America.
The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., houses nearly 3,000 works by American and European impressionist and modern artists, assembled principally by Duncan Phillips
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881, oil on canvas, 130.2 × 175.6 cm, one of the highlights of the Phillips Collection