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# Press Releases: 1946

January 26, 1946[Group of masterpieces to be added to the Samuel H. Kress Collection will be placed on view](PDF 3.3MB)

February 10, 1946[Opening of small loan exhibition of *The History of Medicine in Prints*](PDF 1.3MB)

February 16, 1946[Opening of exhibition of *Hogarth and Rowlandson Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection*](PDF 1.5MB)

February 20, 1946[Third American Music Festival](PDF 1.5MB)

February 23, 1946[Gift from Mrs. Barbara Hutton of four paintings by Canaletto](PDF 1.4MB)

March 17, 1946[Acquisition of painting *Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens* by Albert P. Ryder now part of the Mellon Collection](PDF 1.4MB)

April 23, 1946[Statement of David E. Finley, Director, National Gallery of Art, upon the death of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone](PDF 807KB)

May 10, 1946Exhibition of original American watercolors for Latin America(PDF 4.2MB)

May 13, 1946[Opening of photographic exhibition *Fine Arts Under Fire*](PDF 1.8MB)

May 14, 1946Statement by the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Owen J. Roberts, Chairman(2.5MB)

May 15, 1946[Exhibition of American painting is on its way to the Tate Gallery in London] (PDF 14.2MB)

May 25, 1946[*Audubon Prints, "Birds of America"* to be placed on exhibition](PDF 1.6MB)

June 10, 1946Statement by the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Owen J. Roberts, Chairman(PDF 2.2MB)

August 3, 1946[Opening of exhibition *Made in America*](PDF 797KB)

September 4, 1946[Opening of exhibition *American Etchings, Woodcuts and Lithographs in Memory of Addie Burr Clark*(PDF 1.8MB)

September 21, 1946[Opening of exhibition *New Acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection*(PDF 2.1MB)

September 30, 1946[Opening of exhibition *Rodin: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints*](PDF 1.4MB)

November 26, 1946[Opening of exhibition *Paintings Looted from Holland by the Nazis, Returned through the Efforts of the United States Armed Forces*, press release by Andrew Ritchie, director of the Albright Art Gallery, included](PDF 3MB)

November 30, 1946[Gift of Thomas Eakin's *Monsignor Diomede Falconio* from Stephen C. Clark](PDF 1.5MB)

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