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# Press Releases: 1952

February 2, 1952[Arrival of 72 French paintings from the Collection of Captain Edward Molyneux for exhibition](PDF 681KB)

February 24, 1952[Exhibition *French paintings from the Molyneux Collection*] (PDF 1.4MB)

March 8, 1952[First A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts will be delivered at the National Gallery of Art by Jacques Maritain on *Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry*](PDF 1.5MB)

March 14, 1952[Ninth American Music Festival](PDF 1.5MB)

April 24, 1952[Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain to be dedicated](PDF 2.8MB)

April 24, 1952[Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain] [*press release from Eggers and Higgins, architects of the fountain*](PDF 5.2MB)

April 30, 1952[Austrian Collection returns to Europe after exhibition](PDF 1.6MB)

May 8, 1952[Dedication of Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain] [*The Committee for the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain press release*](PDF 2.9MB)

May 9, 1952Dedication of Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain - remarks of Honorable Oscar L. Champman, Secretary of the Interior(PDF 1.6MB)

May 9, 1952Dedication of Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain - remarks by J.F. Drake, Presiding Officer(PDF 2.4MB)

May 9, 1952[Dedication of the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain - remarks by Chief Justice Fred Vinson](PDF 2MB)

May 16, 1952[Concert to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the music program at the National Gallery(PDF 2MB)

May 17, 1952[Exhibition *Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec* from the Rosenwald Collection] (PDF 700KB)

November 1, 1952[OPening of exhibition *French Drawings, Masterpieces from Five Centuries from the Louvre, Other Museums, and Private Collections*](PDF 1.5MB)

November 22, 1952[Opening of exhibition *Twentieth-Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection*](PDF 4.1MB)

December 11, 1952[Exhibition of Japanese Painting and Sculpture sent to the United States by the Government of Japan will open at the National Gallery](PDF 1.4MB)

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