JOHN RUSSELL POPE

West Wing, National Gallery - Washington, D.C.  

  President Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C.

John Russell Pope was an American architect who trained at the American Academy    at Rome and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Following his studies, Pope    began practice in New York City in 1900. Immensely popular as a designer, he was    also chosen architect of many memorials throughout the country, including memorials    for Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt in Washington and New York City and    the lesser known Lincoln Memorial in Hodgenville, KY. However, many feel his    most important design was the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941 and since    1978 known as the West Building of the National Gallery) in Washington.

                                         2011