Today in Smithsonian History: August 3, 1906
Harriet Lane Johnston Collection exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of American Art, in the Lecture Hall of the Arts and Industries Building in November of 1906, before it had been entirely remodeled. Photo shows 13 paintings, several busts on pedestals, and a statuette on a floor stand. The Gallery first opened to the public on November 24, 1906.
August 3, 1906 The Harriet Lane Johnston collection is delivered to the Smithsonian Institution as the beginnings of a National Gallery of Art under the Institution’s aegis. The collection consists of 31 pieces comprised of several interesting historical objects as well as works of art. The collection forms the basis for what is now the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903), acted as First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her uncle, lifelong bachelor James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861.
Harriet Lane Johnston, January 1, 1860. (Photographer unknown)
James Buchanan, 1834
by Jacob Eichholtz (1776 – 1842).
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bequest of Harriet Lane Johnston
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
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