| Founded in 1825, the National Academy of Design is one of the oldest arts institutions in the country. The National Academy has built the fourth largest institutional assemblage of American art in the country consisting of 2,200 paintings, 240 sculptures, and approximately 5,000 works on paper, by over 1,500 artists. This extensive collection of American nineteenth- and twentieth-century works of painting, sculpture, printing, engraving and architecture are housed in a turn-of-the-century, Beaux-Arts Manhattan townhouse. |
