Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1972
January 1, 1972
Exhibition of Prints by M.C. Escher
January 10, 1972
Special catalog of Tiepolo etchings honors connoisseur-collector Rosenwald
February 1, 1972
Harriman gift of 23 paintings accepted by trustees of the National Gallery of Art
February 11, 1972
National Gallery appoints humanities bibliographer to expand library for Study Center in Visual Arts [J.M. Edelstein]
March 17, 1972
Distinguished Leonardo Da Vinci scholar [Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich] gives 1972 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art
March 20, 1972
Selection of pictures commissioned by U.S. Interior Department Reclamation Bureau exhibited at the National Gallery of Art
April 1, 1972
Paintings by Women Artists, April 17 to 23, 1972 [information sheet about the exhibition]
April 21, 1972
Fourteen Cézanne watercolors lent by private collector to the National Gallery [Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman]
April 24, 1972
X-Rays reveal splendid portraits by Titian under famedVenus with a Mirror
April 28, 1972
First U.S. public showing of new Clark film series on modern painting starts May 8 at the National Gallery
May 1, 1972
Pioneers of Modern Painting program series
May 1, 1972
Notice to the press [Pioneers of Modern Painting]
May 16, 1972
Major Lehmbruck exhibition focuses on paintings and drawings as well as sculpture
July 26, 1972
National Gallery announces recently acquired equestrian picture by Géricault
August 1, 1972
Advance Exhibition Schedule for the coming year: September 1972 through August 1973
August 1, 1972
National Gallery of Art distributes new Kenneth Clark film series on modern painting
August 11, 1972
Olmsted exhibition on national scope to open in nation's capital in fall
September 1, 1972
Exhibition of Old Master drawings from Oxford premieres at National Gallery in first loan abroad
September 12, 1972
Sunday evening concerts resume at the National Gallery of Art
October 2, 1972
Robert Amory, Jr. elected as Assistant Secretary and Assistant General Counsel
October 21, 1972
Major Olmsted exhibition opens in nation's capital
October 27, 1972
National Gallery acquires key Mondrian painting [Lozenge in Red, Yellow and Blue]
November 1, 1972
Advance Fact Sheet [Native Art of the American Arctic]
November 10, 1972
National Gallery of Art announces fellowship grants
November 29, 1972
Carl Nordenfalk appointed Kress Professor for 1972 through 1973 at the National Gallery of Art
December 1, 1972
[Change of exhibition opening and title, The Far North: 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art]
December 13, 1972
Radio-TV Public Service [Regarding Olmsted Exhibition]