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# Press Releases: 1974

February 12, 1974Roosevelt Escher print collection given to National Gallery of Art(PDF 1.9MB)

February 18, 1974H.W. Janson examines nineteenth-century sculpture in Mellon Lectures(PDF 2.3MB)

March 8, 1974*Nineteenth-Century Sculpture* exhibition mounted to correspond with Mellon Lectures(PDF 1.5MB)

March 12, 1974Carlisle H. Humelsine elected trustee of the National Gallery of Art(PDF 4.6MB)

March 18, 1974Advance Fact Sheet [*African Art and Motion*](PDF 2.1MB)

March 27, 1974Extended evening hours begin April 1(PDF 1.5MB)

April 5, 1974Gallery holds special Petrarch exhibition to commemorate 600th anniversary(PDF 3.7MB)

April 10, 1974Press-TV-Radio exhibition preview notice [*African Art and Motion*](PDF 813KB)

April 23, 1974African exhibition at National Gallery breaks new ground in art field(PDF 2.2MB)

May 14, 1974Outstanding North Carolinian scholar receives National Gallery fellowship [C. Ford Peatross, Kress Fellow](PDF 1.5MB)

June 2, 1974National Gallery's print collection broadened by major acquisitions(PDF 1.9MB)

June 2, 1974Old Master drawings are included in National Gallery's recent acquisitions(PDF 1.8MB)

June 2, 1974Special summer exhibition marks Gallery's accelerated acquisition program(PDF 2.9MB)

June 2, 1974Key fifteenth-century print [*The Adoration of the Magi*] acquired by the National Gallery(PDF 1.8MB)

June 7, 1974Four new curators appointed at the National Gallery of Art [David A. Brown, Curator of Central Italian Painting; E.A. Carmean, Jr., Curator of Twentieth Century Art; Sheldon Grossman, Curator of Italian Painting; and John O. Hand, Curator of Northern European Painting](PDF 1.8)

June 13, 1974Major Lehmbruck sculpture [*Seated Youth (The Friend)*] acquired for Gallery's twentieth-century collection(PDF 4.7MB)

June 17, 1974Eminent British scholar of Italian Baroque appointed Gallery Kress Professor, 1974-1975 [Ellis K. Waterhouse](PDF 1.5MB)

June 19, 1974Gallery shows new contemporary art film series(PDF 1.5MB)

July 10, 1974Major Giacometti sculpture [*The Invisible Object: Hands Holding the Void*] acquired for Gallery's twentieth-century collection(PDF 3.1MB)

July 18, 1974New foreign language tours begin at National Gallery(PDF 1.5MB)

July 24, 1974Escher acquisitions put on view(PDF 1.4MB)

August 27, 1974Sunday evening concerts begin 33rd season at National Gallery(PDF 2.1MB)

August 30, 1974Venetian drawings from American collections exhibited at the National Gallery(PDF 1.5MB)

September 26, 1974Rare 17th-century Georges de La Tour *Magdalen*, most important National Gallery acquisition since Leonardo(PDF 2.5MB)

October 7, 1974Parker Lesley appointed to curatorial staff of the National Gallery(PDF 1.4MB)

October 29, 1974Archeological finds from the People's Republic of China [to come to the National Gallery of Art](PDF 1.4MB)

November 14, 1974Two educators appointed to the National Gallery staff [Joseph J. Reis, Curator, Department of Extension Program Development and Ruth R. Perlin, Curator to assist Reis](PDF 1.7MB)

December 4, 1974Exhibition of Rosenwald miniatures marks catalogue publication and CAA [College Art Association] conference(PDF 2MB)

December 6, 1974Press television-radio notice of opening events at the National Gallery of Art for the *Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China*(PDF 2.5MB)

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