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# Press Releases: 1943

January 7, 1943[Decorative arts - Widener Collection in ground floor galleries](PDF 4.6MB)

January 11, 1943Exhibition of National *War Posters*(PDF 757KB)

February 7, 1943Flemish Paintings Loaned by the Belgian government to the National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.4MB)

February 21, 1943Gift of Etchings [by James A. McNeill Whistler] [donated by Mr. and Mrs. Watson Webb](PDF 1.3MB)

February 28, 1943Exhibition of *French Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from French Museums and Private Collections*(PDF 1.8MB)

March 1, 1943Sculpture in the Widener Collection(PDF 2.5MB)

March 15, 1943[Largest attendance to Gallery on Sunday and concert by Army Music School Choir](PDF 846KB)

March 17, 1943[Gift of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection](PDF 1.4MB)

March 28, 1943[Gift from Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus of Clodion's *La Surprise]*(PDF 796KB)

April 4, 1943The Rosenwald Gift(PDF 3.1MB)

April 12, 1943 [*The Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Exhibition* will open to the public on April 13th](PDF 765KB)

April 18, 1943[*The Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Exhibition* will open to the public on April 13th] (PDF 2.2MB)

April 24, 1943[Appointment of David Keppel as Associate Curator of Prints] (PDF 623KB)

April 25, 1943Exhibition of *Prints, Watercolors, and Books by William Blake*, from the Rosenwald Collection(PDF 2.3MB)

May 21, 1943Gift of American portraits [donated by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Chester Dale, and Clarence Van Dyke Tiers](PDF 2.9MB)

June 18, 1943[*War Art* exhibition will open at the National Gallery on June 20th](PDF 1.7MB)

July 4, 1943[Gift of paintings from Chester Dale](PDF 1.4MB)

July 25, 1943[Gift of two Whistler paintings, *The White Girl* and *L'Andalouse*, from the Harris Whittemore Collection](PDF 2.1MB)

August 4, 1943[Gift of the *Richter Archive of Illustrations on Art* from Solomon R. Guggenheim](PDF 1.5MB)

August 12, 1943[*Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from French Museums and Private Collections* placed on exhibition again](PDF 1.5MB)

September 7, 1943[Special exhibition of watercolors and drawings by Marine officers and enlisted men](PDF 661KB)

September 12, 1943[Opening of *Art for Bonds* exhibition](PDF 1.6MB)

September 25, 1943[Newly completed film *The National Gallery of Art* to be shown following concert by Navy Band Symphony Orchestra](PDF 992KB)

October 16, 1943[Opening of exhibition *Navaho Pollen and Sand Paintings*](PDF 1.9MB)

November 19, 1943[Election of Chester Dale as trustee of the National Gallery following death of Joseph E. Widener](PDF 638KB)

November 20, 1943[Opening of exhibition of works illustrating the war-time activities of Naval Aviation](PDF 1.3MB)

December 18, 1943[Exhibition of *Prints and Drawings from the Rosenwald Collection*] (PDF 1.4MB)

December 26, 1943[Gift of Winslow Homer's *Breezing Up* from the W.L. and May T. Mellon Foundation](PDF 1.3MB)

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