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National Academy

Address: 1083 5th Ave., between E. 89th and E. 90th Sts., Upper East Side, New York, NY, 10128 | Map It
Phone: 212/369-4880
www.nationalacademy.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: New York City

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Fodor's Review:

Since its founding in 1825, the academy has required each member elected to its museum and School of Fine Arts (the oldest art school in New York) to donate a representative work of art. This criterion produced a strong collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art, as members have included Mary Cassatt, Samuel F. B. Morse, Winslow Homer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jacob Lawrence, I. M. Pei, Robert Rauschenberg, Maya Lin, Frank Gehry, and Red Grooms. The collection's home is a 19th-century mansion donated in 1940 by sculptor and academy member Anna Hyatt Huntington. Huntington's bronze, Diana of the Chase (1922), is in the academy's foyer.

Cost: $10
Open: Wed. and Thurs. noon-5, Fri.-Sun. 11-6
Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th St.

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