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Washington National Gallery of Art Dedication 221241-01 | Footage Farm

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[1941 - USA:  National Gallery of Art Dedication]
Dias & formally dressed people including FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt.   Chief Justice Hughes at microphone:  "This treasure house, now formally presented to the Nation, is at once a memorial, a symbol & an opportunity...taking its place amongst the world's great galleries..."  MCU.  
16:01:29  Paul Mellon:  "this building which we are dedicating tonight is the realization of a plan borne by my father many years ago soon after he came to Washington as Secretary of Treasury...turn it over to you Mr. President w/ my father's collection..."
16:02:52  Unid. donor:   "...of the most representative masters of this important school...I love my paintings...now the walls of my home are bare and I shall miss them.
16:03:56   FDR:  "Mr. Chief Justice....I accept for the people of the United States...stipulating that the Gallery shall be known not by his name but by the Nation..."
CUs of Chief Justice Hughes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace.
16:06:50  "...and incidentally a world in which armies are raised, men imprisoned & their work destroyed.  To accept today the work of German painters such as Holbein & Durer, of Italians like Botticelli & Raphael...
President Roosevelt Speech; Fine Arts; Andrew Mellon; Artists; Charity; Contributions; Donations; Smithsonian; 1941; 1940s; Culture;

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