Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1948
January 3, 1948
[Gift of Van Dyck's Henri II de Lorraine from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]
January 17, 1948
[Gift of 8 paintings by Italian and German artists of the 15th and 16th centuries from the Ralph and Mary Booth Collection]
February 12, 1948
[Program of early American music to be played on Washington's birthday]
March 7, 1948
[Exhibition of works from Berlin museums brought to this country for safe keeping to open]
March 16, 1948
[National Gallery opens exhibition of paintings from Berlin museums before they return to the American zone in Germany]
March 18, 1948
[8,390 visitors to the Berlin paintings exhibition]
March 31, 1948
[More than a quarter of a million visitors to the Berlin paintings exhibition]
April 7, 1948
[Lecture by Herbert Read on Realism and Abstraction in Modern Art]
April 9, 1948
[Concert commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the League of Composers]
April 10, 1948
[More than 500,000 visitors to the Berlin paintings exhibition]
April 20, 1948
[Fifth American Music Festival]
April 28, 1948
German art to go on national tour before return; children to benefit [Department of the Army Public Information Division press release]
April 29, 1948
[Meeting held at Gallery regarding exhibition of works from Berlin museums]
April 29, 1948
[Selection of pictures from Berlin museums likely to suffer damage if sent on tour]
May 4, 1948
[Schedule agreed upon for tour of paintings from Berlin museums]
May 13, 1948
[New discoveries revealed by recent x-rays of Bellini's The Feast of the Gods will be dlscussed by John Walker]
May 27, 1948
[Examples of pre-Columbian art placed on exhibition]
June 16, 1948
[Employees receive cash awards for devising new method for hanging paintings]
July 9, 1948
[Exhibition of American Folk Art from the Index of American Design]
August 30, 1948
[Sunday evening concert series resumes]
September 15, 1948
[Opening of exhibition of American prints]
November 12, 1948
[Announcement of concert]
November 13, 1948
[Gift of Ralph Earl's Daniel Boardman from Mrs. W. Murray Crane]
November 20, 1948
[Opening of exhibition Paris, the Favorable Climate]