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# Press Releases: 1980

January 4, 1980National Gallery celebrates first 200 years of American furniture and decorative arts(PDF 2.8MB)

January 17, 1980Gallery tours interpreted for deaf Thursdays and Saturdays(PDF 1.3MB)

January 25, 1980National Gallery announces Study Center's first visiting and resident scholars(PDF 2.5MB)

January 25, 1980Carroll J. Cavanagh elected Secretary-General Counsel(PDF 1.2MB)

January 29, 198019th-century American Luminist exhibition opens at National Gallery February 10(PDF 2.9MB)

January 31, 1980Medieval scholar Peter Kidson to give 1980 Mellon Lectures(PDF 1.3MB)

February 1, 1980Press previews [*American Light* and *American Decorative Arts*](PDF 781KB)

February 15, 1980Alexander show premieres at National Gallery in November. Artifacts discovered in royal tomb at Vergina in 1977 to be included(PDF 6.9MB)

February 20, 198019th-century Italian drawings [*Italian Drawings 1780-1890*] exhibition opens March 16(PDF 1.5MB)

February 22, 1980Advance Fact Sheet [*Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1905*](PDF 3.0MB)

March 21, 198020th-century works at National Gallery from Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum(PDF 1.5MB)

April 7, 1980National Gallery awards Study Center's fellowships for 1981-1982 (PDF 9.4MB)

April 23, 1980Major Post-Impressionism exhibition opens at National Gallery May 25 [*Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1905*](PDF 3.7MB)

April 30, 1980Trustees publish first detailed report of Gallery's assets and financial activity(PDF 1.9MB)

May 16, 1980[Press preview notice for *Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1905* exhibit] (PDF 921KB)

June 12, 1980Gallery announces acquisition of Lane painting and forthcoming film using *American Light* exhibition(PDF 1.7MB)

July 9, 1980Advance Exhibition Schedule(PDF 3.1MB)

August 4, 1980National Gallery shows major private collection of 20th-century art [*The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection*](PDF 3.0MB)

August 29, 198039th season of Sunday evening concerts at National Gallery begins September 28(PDF 2.0MB)

October 2, 1980*Gods, Saints, and Heroes**[Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt*] to go on view at the National Gallery November 2(PDF 2.4MB)

October 9, 1980Two lost and unknown Picassos discovered in exhibition preparation [*Picasso: The Saltimbanques*](PDF 2.6MB)

October 23, 1980National Gallery premieres *Search for Alexander* November 16(PDF 3.2MB)

October 30, 1980Andronikos' lecture opens National Gallery's [*Search for*] *Alexander*exhibition(PDF 3.0MB)

October 30, 1980National Gallery sets up free pass system for [*Search for*] *Alexander* show(PDF 1.5MB)

November 12, 1980Max Ernst sculpture on view as Gallery's Collectors Committee meets(PDF 979KB)

December 1, 1980National Gallery appoints [Dodge D.] Thompson Executive Curator(PDF 939KB)

December 1, 1980National Gallery's Study Center appoints [Marianna Shreve Simpson] Assistant Dean(PDF 1.5MB)

December 9, 1980Note to editors [Special phone number set up for information on exhibition *The Search for Alexander*](PDF 925KB)

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