Gallery Archives
Press Releases: 1965
January 1, 1965
Long Range Exhibition Schedule January 1965 through Winter 1967 (PDF 2.5MB)
January 8, 1965
Important Rembrandt [Portrait of a Man in a Fur-lined Coat] exhibited at Gallery (PDF 1.7MB)
January 13, 1965
[Hours of opening during inauguration week] (PDF 1.6MB)
January 31, 1965
[Exhibition of watercolor drawings of John White] (PDF 2.5MB)
February 7, 1965
[Three American primitive paintings, gifts of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, placed on special exhibit] (PDF 2.5MB)
February 21, 1965
[Acquisition of Copley's Watson and the Shark through fund established by Ferdinand Lammot Belin] (PDF 1.7MB)
March 12, 1965
[Sir Isaiah Berlin to be A.W. Mellon lecturer for 1965] (PDF 2.3MB)
March 14, 1965
[Eyewitness to Space to open] (PDF 2.3MB)
April 4, 1965
[Acquisition of two paintings by Francesco and Gian Antonio Guardi through Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund] (PDF 1.9MB)
April 5, 1965
Twenty-Second American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art (PDF 1.8MB)
April 18, 1965
[Miguel Sithium's The Assumption of the Virgin acquired through Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund] (PDF 8.9MB)
April 23, 1965
[Exhibition of The Chester Dale Bequest] (PDF 614KB)
May 12, 1965
Rembrandt's Titus to be shown in Capital (PDF 1.4MB)
May 16, 1965
[Gift of Sargent's Mrs. Adrian Iselin by Mrs. Ernest Iselin, and Twachtman's Winter Harmony and Heade's Brazilian Seascape by the Avalon Foundation] (PDF 1.6MB)
May 26, 1965
[Rembrandt's Portrait of the Artist's Son Titus on exhibition] (PDF 2.5MB)
May 26, 1965
[Huntington Cairns' retirement] (PDF 3MB)
June 6, 1965
[Opening of Sketches by Constable from the Victoria and Albert Museum] (PDF 1.7MB)
June 14, 1965
Remarks by the Honorable George F. Kennan, White House Festival of Arts Luncheon at the National Gallery of Art (PDF 8MB)
June 19, 1965
[White House exhibition at the National Gallery] (PDF 4MB)
July 1, 1965
[Ernest R. Feidler assumes position of Secretary, Treasurer and General Counsel and E. James Adams succeeds as Administrator] (PDF 2.4MB)
July 1, 1965
[Gallery to be regularly open to the public in the evenings, 7 days a week for the first time] (PDF 1.5MB)
July 8, 1965
[Opening of 19th and 20th Century European Drawings] (PDF 4.8MB)
August 10, 1965
[Acquisition of Roberti's The Wife of Hasdrubal with Her Children, Largilliere's Elizabeth Throckmorton, and de Lyons' Portrait of a Man through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund] (PDF 3.3MB)
August 13, 1965
[Exhibition of 19th and 20th-century European prints from the Gallery's collection] (PDF 1.6MB)
September 1, 1965
[Gift of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Colonel Eleazer Tyng from the Avalon Foundation] (PDF 809KB)
September 11, 1965
[Copley exhibition to open] (PDF 2.8MB)
September 14, 1965
Sunday evening concerts resume at the National Gallery of Art (PDF 1.6MB)
September 14, 1965
[Arrival of museum directors and curators for the first meeting of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) outside Europe] (PDF 837KB)
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] (PDF 2.5MB)
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] (PDF 861KB)
November 7, 1965
[Gift of Vigée-Lebrun painting from the Bay Foundation] (PDF 1.7MB)
November 8, 1965
[Dürer and His Time to open] (PDF 2.7MB)
November 14, 1965
Memo to press about the visit of Princess Margaret on November 17 (PDF 958KB)
November 30, 1965
[Chester Dale Collection installed in new location] (PDF 701KB)
December 1, 1965
Exhibition Schedule: Through autumn of 1966 (PDF 1.5MB)
December 8, 1965
[Raphael's Madonna di Loreto and Paolo Veronese's Self-Portrait placed on view] (PDF 1.5MB)
December 12, 1965
[Collection of woodcuts and metalcuts from the first century printmaking to be shown] (PDF 2.7MB)
December 29, 1965
[The American Vision film at the National Gallery of Art] (PDF 1.7MB)