The Kreeger Museum

The Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC is a private, non-profit art museum located in the former residence of David and Carmen Kreeger. Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, it showcases the Kreegers' permanent collection of 19th and 20th century paintings and sculptures. Highlights of the collection include works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Auguste Rodin and Joan Miro as well as examples of traditional African and Asian Art. Through 224 pages and 401 color images, the first Kreeger Museum Catalogue takes the reader on a visual voyage through the remarkable permanent collection which David and Carmen Kreeger acquired from 1952 to 1988. The Preface written by Trustees Carol Kreeger Ingall and Peter L. Kreeger, the daughter and son of David and Carmen, is a particularly touching, first-hand view of the beginnings of the collection to the workings of the Museum at present. The Kreeger Museum's Head of Education, Erich Keel gives an institutional perspective through his portrait of David Lloyd Kreeger as collector. Finally, Benjamin Forgey, author and former architectural critic for the Washington Post, contributes an enthusiastic and insightful essay on Philip Johnson's building. The color plates are divided into five chapters: Landscape, Still Life Painting, The Figure, Art of the Sacred, and Abstraction. Each section features an interpretive essay by one of the three highly accomplished art historians: Jonathan P. Binstock, curator, author, and senior vice president of Citigroup's Art Advisory Group; Laura Coyle, founder of Curator-at-Large; and Ori Z. Soltes, Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University.