Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1965
January 1, 1965
Long Range Exhibition Schedule January 1965 through Winter 1967
January 8, 1965
Important Rembrandt [Portrait of a Man in a Fur-lined Coat] exhibited at Gallery
January 13, 1965
[Hours of opening during inauguration week]
January 31, 1965
[Exhibition of watercolor drawings of John White]
February 7, 1965
[Three American primitive paintings, gifts of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, placed on special exhibit]
February 21, 1965
[Acquisition of Copley's Watson and the Shark through fund established by Ferdinand Lammot Belin]
March 12, 1965
[Sir Isaiah Berlin to be A.W. Mellon lecturer for 1965]
March 14, 1965
[Eyewitness to Space to open]
April 4, 1965
[Acquisition of two paintings by Francesco and Gian Antonio Guardi through Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund]
April 5, 1965
Twenty-Second American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art
April 18, 1965
[Miguel Sithium's The Assumption of the Virgin acquired through Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund]
April 23, 1965
[Exhibition of The Chester Dale Bequest]
May 12, 1965
Rembrandt's Titus to be shown in Capital
May 26, 1965
[Rembrandt's Portrait of the Artist's Son Titus on exhibition]
May 26, 1965
[Huntington Cairns' retirement]
June 6, 1965
[Opening of Sketches by Constable from the Victoria and Albert Museum]
June 14, 1965
Remarks by the Honorable George F. Kennan, White House Festival of Arts Luncheon at the National Gallery of Art
June 19, 1965
[White House exhibition at the National Gallery]
July 1, 1965
[Gallery to be regularly open to the public in the evenings, 7 days a week for the first time]
July 8, 1965
[Opening of 19th and 20th Century European Drawings]
August 13, 1965
[Exhibition of 19th and 20th-century European prints from the Gallery's collection]
September 1, 1965
[Gift of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Colonel Eleazer Tyng from the Avalon Foundation]
September 11, 1965
[Copley exhibition to open]
September 14, 1965
Sunday evening concerts resume at the National Gallery of Art
September 14, 1965
[Arrival of museum directors and curators for the first meeting of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) outside Europe]
October 1, 1965
[Ring of gold to be formed at the National Gallery of Art as joint cultural endeavor of Peru and the United States]
October 19, 1965
[Observance of National Gallery of Art's 25th anniversary with an exhibition of paintings from the Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce collections]
November 7, 1965
[Gift of Vigée-Lebrun painting from the Bay Foundation]
November 8, 1965
[Dürer and His Time to open]
November 14, 1965
Memo to press about the visit of Princess Margaret on November 17
November 30, 1965
[Chester Dale Collection installed in new location]
December 1, 1965
Exhibition Schedule: Through autumn of 1966
December 8, 1965
[Raphael's Madonna di Loreto and Paolo Veronese's Self-Portrait placed on view]
December 12, 1965
[Collection of woodcuts and metalcuts from the first century printmaking to be shown]
December 29, 1965
[The American Vision film at the National Gallery of Art]