Support the Phillips
Photo by Jake Muirhead, 2006	Photo by Randy Sager Photography, 2004

“Everyone who loves early modern art loves The Phillips Collection and envies
Washington for having it.”

~ Robert Hughes, Art and Intimacy, 1998

For the past 85 years, The Phillips Collection has engaged visitors with modern art in an intimate, personal, and profound way. The museum is renowned for its superb collection of almost 2,500 works of art by Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso, Rothko, Diebenkorn, and other modern masters, set in an impressive 1897 Greek Revival home, and expanded to include beautiful, state-of-the-art additions. Throughout its history, The Phillips Collection has built its contemporary collection based on Duncan Phillips's early commitment to supporting and presenting the most significant artists of our times.

The Phillips Collection boasts an all-inclusive approach to collecting, exhibiting, and advancing the study of modern and contemporary art by providing world-class exhibitions and award-winning educational programs, as well as free critically-acclaimed Sunday Concerts, a host of symposia, and specialized tours, both at the Phillips and its Center for the Study of Modern Art. These programs and events serve more than 150,000 students, teachers, and other visitors each year from the Washington, DC area, throughout the United States, and around the world.

The Phillips Collection is a privately-supported, not-for-profit organization that raises nearly all of its annual budget from generous individual contributions and grants from foundations and corporations. The museum has only a minimal endowment and receives less than five percent of its support from the government in the form of competitive grants from agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Because the Phillips is a small art institution, gifts of any size have a major impact on all that that museum achieves. Thank you for your support!

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