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# Press Releases: 1947

January 9, 1947[Opening of exhibition of etchings and drawings by Alphonse Legros from the collection of George Matthew Adams](PDF 1.3MB)

February 20, 1947[Fourth American Music Festival](PDF 1.5MB)

February 22, 1947[Exhibition of American portraits](PDF 1.3MB)

February 24, 1947[Loan from the White House of P.A. Healy's *The Peacemakers*](PDF 687KB)

April 5, 1947[Exhibition of *Woodcuts, Lithographs and Etchings by Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch*] (PDF 2.2MB)

April 11, 1947[Exhibition of *Indigenous Art of the Americas* from the collection of Robert Woods Bliss](PDF 2.1MB)

April 15, 1947[The National Council for the Preservation of Historic Sites and Buildings formed] [*National Council for the Preservation of Historic Sites and Buildings press release*](PDF 1.8MB)

June 4, 1947[Exhibition of *Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Century*](PDF 1.7MB)

June 14, 1947[Gift of Thomas Sully's *Captain Charles Stewart* from Mrs. Georg [Maude Monell] Vetlesen](PDF 1.4MB)

June 21, 1947[Gift of Fragonard's *Love as Conqueror* and *Love as Folly* from Jean W. Simpson](1.4MB)

October 20, 1947[National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings to meet at Gallery] [*National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings press release*](PDF 2.3MB)

October 31, 1947[*Men of Action of the Naval Services, World War II* exhibition](PDF 828KB)

November 22, 1947[*Men of Action of the Naval Services, World War II* exhibition](PDF 2.9MB)

December 12, 1947[*The Art of France in Prints and Books* exhibition](PDF 1.6MB)

December 13, 1947[Gift of Winslow Homer's *Hound and Hunter* from Stephen C. Clark](PDF 1.9MB)

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