Phillips Collection

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  • Address
    1600 21st St NW, Dupont Circle
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  • Phone
    387 2151
  • Transport
    underground rail: Dupont Circle

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Founded in 1921, DC's oldest museum of modern art is famed for its extensive collection of impressionist and postimpressionist pieces. Monet, Degas, Whistler, van Gogh and Klee are all represented, with Renoir's panoramic Luncheon of the Boating Party crowning its holdings. Special exhibits are also a big draw. Thursdays the gallery hosts Artful Evenings, featuring live jazz and free appetizers.

In recent years, special exhibits have included masterpieces by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz and Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The museum shop has a good collection of posters, pop and scholarly art books, and knickknacks imprinted with famous paintings, such as umbrellas sporting Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party and Monet water-lily mugs.