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# Press Releases: 1978

January 5, 1978East Building project statistics(PDF 1.4MB)

January 10, 1978Advance Fact Sheet: East Building Project National Gallery of Art(PDF 6.3MB)

January 19, 1978Advance Exhibition Schedule: East Building opening June 1, 1978(PDF 2.3MB)

February 14, 1978Thematic works of seven American abstract expressionists to be shown at Gallery's East Building opening(PDF 3.5MB)

February 24, 1978National Gallery acquires three major American paintings(PDF 1.5MB)

[March 1978]*The Splendor of Dresden: Five Centuries of Art Collecting, An Exhibition from the German Democratic Republic* to Open New Wing of National Gallery(PDF 2.1MB)

March 8, 1978Three special installations of twentieth-century art to be shown at Gallery's East Building opening(PDF 4.3MB)

March 10, 1978Early architectural fantasies of G.B. Piranesi to be shown at Gallery's East Building opening(PDF 2.2MB)

March 13, 1978Unprecedented International loan show to open new special exhibition galleries(PDF 2.9MB)

March 13, 1978Advance Fact Sheet [*The Splendor of Dresden: Five Centuries of Art Collecting*](PDF 5.2MB)

March 17, 1978Small French paintings in Bruce bequest to be shown in East Building June 1(PDF 2.1MB)

March 24, 1978Master drawings and watercolors to go on view at National Gallery's East Building opening, June 1(PDF 2.9MB)

March 31, 197817th-century Dutch landscape recently acquired by National Gallery(PDF 1.4MB)

May 2, 1978Free pass system for Dresden exhibition to be established on National Gallery plaza beginning June 1(PDF 1.9MB)

May 5, 1978National Gallery of Art announces special commissions for the New East Building(PDF 2.2MB)

May 16, 1978National Gallery announces major Munch exhibition for fall season(PDF 1.4MB)

May 16, 1978Press-Television-Radio notice of preview and opening for the National Gallery of Art's East Building opening(PDF 1.5MB)

May 22, 1978Press-Television-Radio advisory: Further information on East Building opening, June 1(PDF 824KB)

May 23, 1978Note to editors [New phone number for inquiries about East Building and opening, and passes for the Dresden Exhibition](PDF 792KB)

June 1, 1978Remarks of the President [Jimmy Carter] at opening of the East Gallery [*Office of the White House Press Secretary press release*](PDF 3.2MB)

June 1, 1978Remarks of Paul Mellon at dedication of the East Building(PDF 3.3MB)

July 25, 1978Attendance at Gallery's East Building reaches one million(PDF 1.5MB)

September 1, 197837th Season of Sunday evening concerts at National Gallery begins September 24(PDF 2.1MB)

September 27, 1978National Gallery acquires major Kandinsky painting and Munch print series(PDF 2.3MB)

October 3, 1978Advance Exhibition Schedule(PDF 2.8MB)

October 20, 1978Statement from the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, October 20, 1978 [concerning conservation at National Gallery of Art](PDF 2.1MB)

October 24, 1978Munch ballet to be performed at National Gallery(PDF 1.4MB)

October 26, 1978Fragonard and Robert drawings exhibitions go on view November 19(PDF 2.2MB)

October 30, 1978Major Munch exhibition to open at the National Gallery of Art November 11(PDF 2.8MB)

November 16, 1978Gallery opens second in series on American folk-art tradition(PDF 2MB)

November 29, 1978Eminent scholar of French 19th-century art appointed 1978-1979 Gallery Kress Professor [George Hamilton](PDF 1.5MB)

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