DTR Modern Galleries

DTR Modern Galleries at 2820 Pennsylvania Avenue NW is a contemporary and modern art gallery near the Four Seasons Hotel at the western end of Georgetown’s Pennsylvania Avenue, in the address cluster that also houses The Bourbon Concierge and Georgetown Frame Shoppe. The gallery’s Pennsylvania Avenue location places it adjacent to the Four Seasons hotel, which is the most significant hospitality address in Georgetown and the address that brings the highest concentration of Washington’s professional, diplomatic, and political visitors to the immediate neighborhood.

The modern and contemporary art gallery format that DTR Modern presents serves the Georgetown collector and the Washington art buyer who is looking for the accessible entry point into the established modern art market: the prints, multiples, and editions by recognized artists that the gallery includes in its inventory provide a lower price point than the unique paintings and sculptures while still offering the art buyer the association with the artist’s body of work.

The Pennsylvania Avenue gallery address is distinct from the upper Wisconsin Avenue gallery corridor where Addison/Ripley and Calloway operate: the Pennsylvania Avenue end of Georgetown, which is quieter and more residential than the Wisconsin Avenue commercial strip, provides the gallery with a specific address that the Georgetown resident in the surrounding blocks uses rather than the Wisconsin Avenue shopper who happens to pass the gallery.

The DTR program covers painting, works on paper, and sculpture by the artists whose work has achieved recognition in the American and international contemporary art market, presenting both solo and group exhibitions through the gallery’s annual program.

Hours run Tuesday through Sunday. The Pennsylvania Avenue gallery address provides the Georgetown art market with a physically distinct gallery destination from the Wisconsin Avenue gallery corridor. The pedestrian who walks the Pennsylvania Avenue stretch between 28th and 29th Streets encounters the gallery cluster in a quieter setting than the Wisconsin Avenue retail experience, which allows for the more considered engagement with the work that the gallery visit requires.

DTR Modern’s particular emphasis on prints and editions makes it one of the more accessible entry points into the Georgetown art market for the buyer who is acquiring art seriously for the first time. The print, which exists in an authorized edition of a fixed number of examples, can be acquired at a price that reflects both the artist’s reputation and the edition’s size, which creates the market for the serious work at a price point below the unique painting or sculpture. Gallery hours run Tuesday through Sunday. The DTR Modern program, which includes works on paper and photography alongside the painting and edition categories, provides the Georgetown art buyer with access to the full range of the contemporary work-on-paper market at the Pennsylvania Avenue gallery address. Gallery hours run Tuesday through Sunday, with the gallery available for private appointments during the week by arrangement with the gallery staff. The Pennsylvania Avenue location is accessible from both the Georgetown commercial district and from Foggy Bottom.