Travel Tales and Pictures

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Washington, D.C. - Part II

The pictures ENLARGE if you click on them.

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

Sol LeWitt (American, born 1928), Four-Sided Pyramid, 1999, first installation 1997, concrete blocks and mortar.

Designed to offer year-round enjoyment the garden is one of the preeminent locations on the National Mall. The National Gallery Sculpture Garden includes seventeen works from the Gallery's collection as well as loans for special exhibitions.

The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ice-skating rink.

Alexander Calder (American, 1898–1976), Cheval Rouge (Red Horse), 1974, painted sheet metal.

Stainless steel tree by Roxy Paine.

Abraham Lincoln's Top Hat

President Lincoln wore this top hat to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. When I was in Washington, D.C. I also went to the National Museum of American History where they had an exhibit on Abraham Lincoln. This photo was a little blurry, so I edited the photo to only have the center in color.

A replica of the Berlin Wall and also some small pieces of the actual wall.

The National Museum of the American Indian Building

It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. The building is clad in a golden-colored Kasota limestone designed to evoke natural rock formations shaped by wind and water over thousands of years. The museum’s architect and project designer is the Canadian Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot); its design architects are GBQC Architects of Philadelphia and architect Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee/Choctaw). Disagreements during construction led to Cardinal's being removed from the project, but the building retains his original design intent. His continued input enabled its completion.