The Phillips Collection
About The Phillips Collection
Duncan Phillips and his brother, Jim Phillips, convinced their parents to provide them $10,000 each year to collect American art for the family. After a series of tragedies, Duncan Phillips founded the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery (later renamed the Philips Collection) in 1918 using a room in their home to display artwork.
Understandably, as the collection grew their shared home was not an ideal location to showcase the works. In the 1930s the family moved out of the home and gave it over to the museum, where the Phillips Collection still stands.
The museum now contains nearly 6,000 works of art, including 2 works of art by Thomas Hart Benton: Moonlight on the Osage (1938) and The Corral (1948).
Thomas Hart Benton Artwork at The Phillips Collection
Visiting Information
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 387-2151
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Wednesday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Thursday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Friday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Saturday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Sunday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Holidays:
Closed on the following days:
New Year’s Day
Independence Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
Resources & Information
Photo of The Phillips Collection: AgnosticPreachersKid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
All Works of Art by Thomas Hart Benton: https://www.phillipscollection.org/thomas-hart-benton
Thomas Hart Benton : vertical file: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&resourceid=340401¤tIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab
Shallow Creek : Thomas Hart Benton and American waterways / Leo G. Mazow: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=9835
Thomas Hart Benton : exhibition of paintings, October 14-December 15, 2000: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=6208
Thomas Hart Benton : the America today murals / with essays by Emily Braun and Thomas Branchick: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=1843
Tom and Jack : the intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock / Henry Adams: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=11041
Renegade regionalists : the modern independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry / James M. Dennis: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=2920
America after the fall : painting in the 1930s / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=12570
Benton on the Vineyard: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=12296
Alexander Calder, Red Polygons, ca. 1950: https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/red-polygons
Jackson Pollock : interviews, articles, and reviews / edited by Pepe Karmel: http://library.phillipscollection.org:8080/#section=resource&hostRecordId=12686