Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1969
January 1, 1969
Staff appointments [Michael R.J. Mahoney, Editor and C. Douglas Lewis, Jr., Curator of Sculpture]
January 23, 1969
The Birds of America at the National Gallery
February 1, 1969
Special Notice [New closing date for Audubon’s Birds of America]
February 5, 1969
W. Howard Adams named to new administrative post
February 19, 1969
[Jacob Bronowski named A.W. Mellon Lecturer]
March 10, 1969
Rembrandt to be honored at National Gallery of Art [Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art exhibition]
April 1, 1969
Twenty-sixth American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art
April 13, 1969
[Claude Lorrain's] The Judgment of Paris acquired by the National Gallery [through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund]
April 23, 1969
[Museum self-service retail area]
April 30, 1969
[Exhibition of paintings by John Constable from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon]
May 2, 1969
[John Walker to retire as director, J. Carter Brown to become director]
June 16, 1969
[David W. Scott to join the National Gallery of Art as consultant for new building]
June 24, 1969
Chief Curator [Perry B. Cott] retires from National Gallery
June 28, 1969
Raymond S. Stites [Curator of Education] retires from National Gallery
August 1, 1969
Exhibition openings through 1969
August 29, 1969
[Memorial exhibition honoring Ailsa Mellon Bruce]
September 12, 1969
[German Expressionist Watercolors]
September 12, 1969
Sunday evening concerts to resume at the National Gallery
September 23, 1969
[Rudolf] Wittkower named Kress Professor in Residence
October 8, 1969
[American premiere of Civilisation to be at the National Gallery of Art]
October 25, 1969
[Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth]
November 15, 1969
Joseph Wright of Derby opens at the National Gallery of Art
December 1, 1969
Editors Please Note [Exhibition African Sculpture to open early 1970]
December 4, 1969
[Works related to the Apollo missions to go on display at the National Gallery, The Artist and Space exhibition]