Leonardo da Vinci (Artist) (Ginevra de’ Benci – The only painting by Leonardo in the Americas)

I.M. Pei (Architect) (Designing the iconic geometric East Building, opened 1978)

John Russell Pope (Architect) (Designing the monumental neoclassical West Building, opened 1941)

Alexander Calder (Sculptor) (Mobile, the massive floating kinetic sculpture dominating the East Building Atrium)

Mark Rothko (Artist) (The Rothko Room – A dedicated permanent installation of his luminous abstract canvases)

Jackson Pollock (Artist) (Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950)

Vincent van Gogh (Artist) (Self-Portrait, 1889)

Claude Monet (Artist) (Japanese Footbridge and Water Lilies series)

Pablo Picasso (Artist) (The Lovers / Saltimbanques period masterpieces)

Henri Matisse (Artist) (Large Composition with Masks, 1953)

Edgar Degas (Sculptor) (The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen bronze master-cast)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Artist) (Self-Portrait, 1659)

Johannes Vermeer (Artist) (Woman Holding a Balance)

El Greco (Artist) (Laocoön)

Sandro Botticelli (Artist) (The Adoration of the Magi)

Raphael (Artist) (The Alba Madonna)

Auguste Rodin (Sculptor) (The Thinker and Balzac monumental casts)

Andrew W. Mellon (Founder) (Congressional establishment and foundational endowment, 1937)

Paul Mellon (Benefactor) (Massive donations of French Impressionist and American masterworks)

Queen Elizabeth II (Celebrity Visitor) (State royal visits and exhibition walkthroughs)

Jacqueline Kennedy (Historical Figure) (Instrumental patronage during the museum’s formative mid-century expansion)

J. Carter Brown (Director) (Visionary director who pioneered blockbuster international loan exhibitions)

Kaywin Feldman (Director) (Current director modernizing community access and digital archiving)

Jazz in the Garden (Cultural Event) (Extremely popular seasonal summer concert series in the Sculpture Garden)

East Building Atrium Re-installation (2023) (Landmark modernization unveiling thousands of square feet of new contemporary galleries)