Opening of Renwick Gallery

ID: 72-1954-3 or 72-1954.03

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1972

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: March 1972

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Summary

People gathered in the Grand Salon at the opening of new Renwick Gallery on January 27,1972. The paintings displayed are the same as those exhibited a century ago when the building served as the original Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Subject

  • Renwick Gallery
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, March 1972

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: March 1972

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1972

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Art
  • Openings
  • Art museums
  • Grand Salon of the Renwick Gallery
  • Exhibitions
  • Art objects
  • Art--Exhibitions

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Event

ID Number

72-1954-3 or 72-1954.03

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

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