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Waveform Audio File Format  |  2000-10-09  |  2.1 MB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  1 minute, 38 seconds
Transcription: The West Building of the National Gallery of Art is a neoclassical white marble structure built in the late 1930s. It's on the Mall facing the Air and Space Museum. The columned central rotunda is graced by a statue of Mercury, messenger of the gods. Majestic interior spaces radiate from this entrance hall. The gallery contains one of the worst great collections of paintings, sculpture and graphic arts dating from the Middle Ages to the present. American artists are well represented and there are superlative holdings of Dutch and Flemish works. The collection of French Impressionists here is o ...