Clamdigger
Clamdigger is a bronze sculpture by Willem de Kooning. It may have been inspired by "the men who dug for clams along the beaches" near his home in East Hampton, New York.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: artwork by Willem de Kooning
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Gallery of Art.
National Mall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
National Gallery of Art
Museum
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. National Gallery of Art is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Clamdigger.
National Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of Natural History is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Clamdigger.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East End and Waterfront.
East End
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.
Waterfront
The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.
Capitol Hill
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Capitol Hill is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.
Clamdigger
- Categories: sculpture and tourism
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.88913° or 38° 53′ 21″ northLongitude
-77.02275° or 77° 1′ 22″ westOpen location code
87C4VXQG+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 917743911OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q5125443
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to French—“Clamdigger” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Pektenelfosisto”
- French: “Clamdigger”
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Highlights include Young Girl on a Chair and Seated Woman on a Bench.
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