The National Gallery of Art in Washington has announced the second phase of its Across the Nation lending programme, sending masterpieces from the national collection to eight more museums in eight states that have not yet hosted the initiative. The loans will go on view in the summer and autumn of 2027 and remain in place until 2029, with the gallery covering transport, installation and insurance at no cost to the partner venues.

The new partners are the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Dayton Art Institute, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Together they extend the programme into Alabama, California, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.

Each museum chose between two and five works suited to its own collection and community. Sacramento will receive two Monets, The Willows and Cliffs at Pourville, alongside two Renoirs. Dayton's selection pairs a Rothko, a Matisse and an Alma Thomas with works by Raoul Dufy and Berthe Morisot. The Westmoreland will show four Georgia O'Keeffes, Mobile gets a Rembrandt portrait, and Madison will present a 1980 Howardena Pindell work confronting race and identity.

The programme launched in 2025 as part of commemorations for the 250th anniversary of the United States, and its pilot reached more than one million visitors across ten states. A $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation earlier this year endowed it in perpetuity. Director Kaywin Feldman said everyone deserved to experience the power of art in their own community. The gallery aims to lend works in all 50 states within the programme's first decade.