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# Press Releases: 1977

January 25, 1977National Gallery shows 17th-century Dutch drawings and prints from American collections(PDF 2.1MB)

February 12, 1977National Gallery receives photo collection of German art for photographic archives [and appointment of Ruth R. Philbrick, Head, Photographic Archives](PDF 1.4MB)

February 22, 1977Hours for *Treasures of Tutankhamun* extended by National Gallery during last two weeks(PDF 769KB)

March 3, 1977Renaissance scholar Andre Chastel to give 1977 Mellon Lectures(PDF 2.1MB)

March 4, 1977National Gallery announces gift of Gauguin painting [*The Invocation*](PDF 1.3MB)

March 28, 1977Tokugawa *Nō Robes and Masks* to open at the National Gallery of Art(PDF 2.2MB)

April 12, 1977Note to editors [Revised titles of A.W. Mellon Lectures](PDF 795KB)

April 27, 1977National Gallery print exhibition surveys aesthetic role of paper for print connoisseurs [*Paper in Prints*](PDF 2MB)

April 28, 1977*La Belle Epoque* shown in prints at National Gallery of Art [*Prints of Paris: The 1890s*](PDF 1.4MB)

May 6, 1977Press-Television-Radio notice of preview and reception for photo exhibit on handicapped persons and the arts [*Accessible Arts*](PDF 1.6MB)

May 26, 1977Prominent Americanist appointed National Gallery Senior Curator [John Wilmerding](PDF 2.2MB)

June 3, 1977Historic and contemporary flags in National Sculpture Garden to commemorate Stars and Stripes on Flag Day [*New Glory*](PDF 2MB)

June 6, 1977Advance Fact Sheet [*Matisse: The Cut-Outs*](PDF 2.2MB)

June 24, 1977National Gallery premieres Jefferson film week of July 12(PDF 1.6MB)

July 1, 1977General information about the National Gallery of Art(PDF 2.3MB)

August 12, 1977National Gallery of Art premiers major exhibition of Matisse cut-outs(PDF 2.8MB)

September 1, 197736th season of Sunday evening concerts at National Gallery begins September 25(PDF 2.1MB)

October 11, 1977Matisse exhibition held over through October 24(PDF 1.4MB)

November 7, 1977Joseph Alsop to give Gallery's 1978 Mellon Lectures in spring(PDF 2.5MB)

December 2, 1977National Gallery's extension service offers new films and programs on Cézanne, China, King Tut, fireworks(PDF 1.6MB)

December 7, 1977Eminent drawings scholar appointed 1977-1978 Gallery Kress Professor [Agnes Mongan](PDF 2.3MB)

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