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# Press Releases: 1968

January 25, 1968[National Gallery of Art docents receive National Art Material Trade Association award](PDF 4.8MB)

January 30, 1968[Maillol and Lehmbruck life-size sculptures acquired through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](PDF 1.5MB)

February 6, 1968[*Painting in France 1900-1967*](PDF 11.1MB)

February 29, 1968Poet Stephen Spender to lecture at National Gallery [17th annual Mellon Lectures](PDF 1.4MB)

March 1, 1968Special Notice [Summer hours](PDF 726KB)

March 17, 1968National Gallery of Art inaugurates four-language training system(PDF 2.2MB)

April 1, 1968Special Announcement [Change of concert time](PDF 650KB)

April 1, 1968Twenty-fifth American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.7MB)

April 2, 1968[Exhibition commemorating 100th anniversary of Charles Meryon's death, *The Etchings of Charles Meryon (1821-1868)*](PDF 1.7MB)

May 12, 1968[Albright-Knox Art Gallery lends part of collection to the National Gallery of Art](PDF 2.3MB)

June 7, 1968[Regular day-time hours resumed, Sunday evening concerts to be rescheduled, Gallery closed June 9, national day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy](PDF 737KB)

July 16, 1968[Bequest of Copley portrait of *Mrs. Metcalf Bowler* by Louise Alida Livingston](PDF 1.5MB)

July 21, 1968[Exhibition honoring William Sidney Mount, *Painter of Rural America*](PDF 1.4MB)

July 30, 1968[I.M. Pei retained for design of East Building](PDF 1.5MB)

August 1, 1968Major exhibitions through Spring, 1969(PDF 744KB)

August 30, 1968Photo Cutline [Walt Kuhn's *Pumpkins* given to the National Gallery of Art by Avalon Foundation](PDF 757KB)

September 13, 1968Sunday evening concerts resume at the National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.5MB)

October 25, 1968[Series of exhibitions of selected paintings from the British art collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon to be shown, beginning with 16 paintings by *J. M. W. Turner*](PDF 1.6MB)

October 29, 1968Special announcement [First day ceremonies for 1968 Christmas stamp](PDF 871KB)

November 10, 1968[Giovanni Paolo Panini's *Interior of Saint Peter's Rome* acquired through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](PDF 874KB)

November 13, 1968[Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann named 1968 Kress Professor-in-Residence](PDF 2MB)

November 19, 1968[Exhibition honoring William Sidney Mount to open, *Painter of Rural America*](PDF 2.4MB)

December 1, 1968Exhibition openings through Spring, 1969(PDF 809KB)

December 12, 1968National Gallery acquires first painting by old master Jan Van Der Heyden(PDF 1.5MB)

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