Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1960
January 10, 1960
Exhibition of primitive Japanese sculpture [Haniwa-Japanese Burial Mound Figures] at the National Gallery of Art
January 22, 1960
Eakins exhibition [Thomas Eakins: A Retrospective Exhibition] to be held at the National Gallery of Art in fall of 1961
February 15, 1960
[Wilmarth S. Lewis to deliver the ninth A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts]
February 17, 1960
NGA announces two new acquisitions [Bronze statue Mercury and Benjamin West's The Battle of La Hogue]
March 9, 1960
Exhibition of [Honoré Daumier] at the National Gallery of Art
March 16, 1960
Paintings bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art by Mrs. William R. Timken moved to Washington
March 23, 1960
[Pittsburgh high school essay winners tour National Gallery of Art]
April 14, 1960
Seventeenth American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art
May 15, 1960
[Division of Timken gift to the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art]
May 20, 1960
New Widener Rooms
May 23, 1960
[Tentative schedule of forthcoming exhibitions]
August 6, 1960
[Group of Timken paintings on exhibition]
August 29, 1960
[Gallery to open new graphic arts exhibition room and study room for graphic arts]
September 2, 1960
Sunday evening concerts resume at the National Gallery of Art
October 8, 1960
[Italian Drawings from Five Centuries exhibition to open]
November 5, 1960
[The Splendid Century exhibition to open]
December 2, 1960
[The Civil War, A Centennial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings exhibition to open]