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# Press Releases: 1969

January 1, 1969Staff appointments [Michael R.J. Mahoney, Editor and C. Douglas Lewis, Jr., Curator of Sculpture](PDF 1.5MB)

January 23, 1969*The Birds of America* at the National Gallery(PDF 1.6MB)

February 1, 1969Special Notice [New closing date for Audubon’s *Birds of America*](PDF 691KB)

February 5, 1969W. Howard Adams named to new administrative post(PDF 1.6MB)

February 19, 1969[Jacob Bronowski named A.W. Mellon Lecturer](PDF 2.2MB)

March 10, 1969Rembrandt to be honored at National Gallery of Art [*Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art* exhibition](PDF 3.5MB)

April 1, 1969Twenty-sixth American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.8MB)

April 13, 1969[Claude Lorrain's] *The Judgment of Paris* acquired by the National Gallery [through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](PDF 3MB)

April 23, 1969[Museum self-service retail area](PDF 4.1MB)

April 30, 1969[Exhibition of paintings by John Constable from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon](PDF 1.6MB)

May 2, 1969[John Walker to retire as director, J. Carter Brown to become director](PDF 1.7MB)

June 8, 1969Masterpieces of American Naïve paintings to open at the National Gallery of Art [from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch](PDF 2.3MB)

June 16, 1969[David W. Scott to join the National Gallery of Art as consultant for new building](PDF 4.1MB)

June 19, 1969*Portrait of a Man* painting by Jordaens discovered. Hand of Flemish Master Confirmed by Infrared Photography [acquired through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](PDF 2.3MB)

June 24, 1969Chief Curator [Perry B. Cott] retires from National Gallery(PDF 1.4MB)

June 28, 1969Raymond S. Stites [Curator of Education] retires from National Gallery(PDF 1.4MB)

August 1, 1969Exhibition openings through 1969(PDF 790KB)

August 29, 1969[Memorial exhibition honoring Ailsa Mellon Bruce](PDF 4.3MB)

September 12, 1969[*German Expressionist Watercolors*](PDF 1.8MB)

September 12, 1969Sunday evening concerts to resume at the National Gallery(PDF 2.3MB)

September 23, 1969[Rudolf] Wittkower named Kress Professor in Residence(PDF 1.4MB)

October 8, 1969[American premiere of *Civilisation* to be at the National Gallery of Art](PDF 1.7MB)

October 25, 1969[*Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth*](PDF 1.6MB)

November 15, 1969*Joseph Wright of Derby* opens at the National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.5MB)

December 1, 1969Editors Please Note [Exhibition *African Sculpture* to open early 1970](PDF 758KB)

December 4, 1969[Works related to the Apollo missions to go on display at the National Gallery, *The Artist and Space* exhibition](PDF 10MB)

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