Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1941
January 10, 1941
[First announcement of opening of the National Gallery of Art and dedication ceremonies]
February 1, 1941
[Notice to managing editors regarding the admittance of press photographers]
February 1, 1941
[Information about National Gallery of Art building committee, architect, builder]
February 27, 1941
President Roosevelt to dedicate National Gallery of Art March 17, 1941
March 1, 1941
Dedication - The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Washington
March 1, 1941
Dedication - National Gallery to open at 8 PM for dedication
March 1, 1941
[Announcement of dedication, information on building and collections]
March 1, 1941
[Captions for photographs]
March 1, 1941
Revised schedule - National Gallery of Art Dedication Ceremonies March 17, 1941
March 8, 1941
Facts about the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
March 14, 1941
[Gift of acacia collection from Joseph E. Widener]
March 15, 1941
Donation to the National Gallery of Art of a collection of prints by Miss Ellen T. Bullard and three anonymous donors
March 15, 1941
Group of paintings and sculpture loaned to the National Gallery of Art by Mr. Samuel H. Kress to be shown with the Kress Collection
March 15, 1941
Loan of a group of American paintings from the Chester Dale Collection
March 16, 1941
Information to accompany photographs to rotogravure editors [regarding the National Gallery Building]
March 17, 1941
The President's Address delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies on March 17, 1941
March 17, 1941
Remarks of Mr. Samuel H. Kress at the Dedication Ceremonies on March 17, 1941 at 10:00 PM
March 17, 1941
Mr. Paul Mellon's speech, National Gallery of Art Dedication
March 17, 1941
Invocation by The Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, DD, Chaplain of the United States Senate, at the Dedication Ceremonies on March 17, 1941
March 26, 1941
Attendance during first week National Gallery of Art open to the public
May 1, 1941
[Two Hundred American Watercolors exhibition]
May 15, 1941
[Announcement of showing of Two Hundred American Watercolors selected from a National Competition]
June 5, 1941
[641,277 visitors to the National Gallery and the closing of the Two Hundred American Watercolors exhibition]
June 24, 1941
[Arrival of 22 paintings of the French 19th Century School from the Chester Dale Collection in New York]
July 14, 1941
Great Fire of London, 1940 [exhibition]
July 28, 1941
National Gallery has its millionth visitor
September 21, 1941
Gift of painting [Advice to a Young Artist] by Daumier [donated by Duncan Phillips]
September 28, 1941
Exhibition of Australian Art [Art of Australia, 1788-1941]
November 9, 1941
[25 nineteenth century French paintings from the Chester Dale Collection to be placed on exhibition at the National Gallery]
November 14, 1941
Gift of painting by Goya [Don Bartolomé Sureda donated by Mr. and Mrs. PH.B. Frelinghuysen]
December 16, 1941
[Architectural Drawings of the National Gallery Building exhibition]