Watergate Gallery & Frame Design

Specialties

Watergate Gallery & Frame Design has been offering art and picture framing services for over 25 years. The gallery is located in the historic Watergate complex in Foggy Bottom next to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. There is easy access to Georgetown, the West End, downtown Washington and Metro on the Blue line stop at Foggy Bottom — George Washington University. The gallery exhibits a wide variety of art including traditional and contemporary paintings, sculpture, ceramic, wood turning, fiber art, jewelry. We offer distinctive custom framing in modern and traditional style. With a wide variety of materials available we are able to help design framing with preservation standards that is creative but still has a timeless quality with your taste and budget in mind.

History

Established in 1986.

Watergate Gallery & Frame Design started out as a picture framing business in the 70’s and has evolved into a business offering both fine custom framing and a showcase for a diverse group of artists. The current owner, Dale Johnson worked at the shop after graduating from American University with a degree in Art History. After several years of changes she bought the business and focused on picture framing. As the framing industry grew concentration on preservation framing grew in importance offering a much wider selection of materials. Watergate Gallery & Frame Design has followed the industry and offers high quality preservation framing using acid free materials and ultraviolet filtering glazing on all pieces to be framed. It is our belief that any object worth framing should be handled with the intent of preservation.

Meet the Business Owner

Dale J.

Business Owner

Dale graduated from American University with degree in Art History. She has been involved with Watergate Gallery Frame Design for over 25 years.