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# Press Releases: 1949

January 8, 1949[Gift of Murillo's *The Return of the Prodigal Son*from the Avalon Foundation through Ailsa Mellon Bruce](PDF 1.4MB)

January 11, 1949[Michelangelo's *David* on loan from the Italian government to be placed on exhibition](PDF 1.8MB)

January 29, 1949[Opening of exhibition *Ancient Egyptian Sculpture* from the Gulbenkian Collection](PDF 2.1MB)

Feburary 19, 1949[Further loans from the Gulbenkian Collection](PDF 2.1MB)

April 15, 1949[Sixth American Music Festival](PDF 2.8MB)

April 15, 1949[Opening of exhibition *Early Italian Engravings*](PDF 2.7MB)

April 30, 1949[Gifts of Whistler's *Head of a Girl* and Sargent's *Repose* from Curt Reisinger, and Robert Henri's *Catharine* from Oscar Doyle Johnson](PDF 1.9MB)

June 23, 1949[Bequest of collection of paintings and prints from the late R. Horace Gallatin](PDF 1.3MB)

June 29, 1949[American paintings and photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection given to the Gallery by Georgia O'Keeffe](PDF 1.4MB)

July 27, 1949[Collection from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna to arrive for exhibition](PDF 1018KB)

July 27, 1949[Michelangelo's *David* returned to Italy](PDF 904KB)

July 30, 1949[Exhibition of South African contemporary art](PDF 1.5MB)

August 15, 1949[Appointment of Perry E. Cott as assistant chief curator](PDF 894KB)

October 21, 1949[Background of the Austrian exhibition released] [*Austrian Legation press release*](PDF 1.8MB)

November 16, 1949[*Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections* exhibition](PDF 3MB)

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