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SIXTH STREET AT CONSTITUTION AVENUE NW WASHINGTON DC 20565 • REpublic 7-4215 extension 248 Releases: 800 Photographs: 61 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHITE HOUSE EXHIBITION AT NATIONAL GALLERY

The exhibition of contemporary American art on view to the invited guests at the White House Festival of the Arts for the day of June 14 will be exhibited to the general public from Saturday , June 19, through Sunday, July 11, at the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition of paintings and will be previewed Friday evening, June 18 a at a reception given at the Gallery for the Arts Councils of America. A checklist of the works of art to be exhibited and of the museums which lent them is attached. All but three of the paintings and a large portion of the sculpture shown in the White House exhibition will be on view. The exhibition was organized by the White House as a salute to the American visual arts and to American museums nation­ wide Museum directors offered works of art from their collections, and the final list was arrived at by the White House in consultation with leading experts in the art. field. The exhibition will be on view in the special exhibition galleries on the ground floor. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON, D. C.

Checklist of paintings and sculpture, exhibited in The White House Festival of the Arts, June 14, to be exhibited in the National Gallery of Art, June 18 through July 11, 1965

PAINTINGS

Joseph Albers Homage to the Square: "Yellow Echo" (b.1888) Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.

Richard Anuszkiewicz Squaring the Circle (b.1930) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C.

Milton Avery Offshore Island (b.1893) Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Neb. Thomas Hart Benton Threshing Wheat (b.1889) The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery Terre Haute, Indiana

Blackbear Bosin Prairie Fire (b.1921) Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Charles Burchfield The Sphinx and the Milky Way (b.1893) Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica, New York

Willem de Kooning Woman No. IV (b.1904) Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum Kansas City, Missouri

Richard Diebenkorn Landscape #1 (b.1922) The San Francisco Museum of Art San Francisco, Calif.

Sam Francis Summer (b.1923) The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Md, Lee Gatch Night Gothic (b.1902) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. Excalibur (b.1903) Whitney Museum of American Art New York, N.Y. horris Graves , Fish and Constellation (b.1910) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

(more) Grace Hartigan Human Fragment (b.1922) Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.

Hans Hoffman " » and» out caves, the night threw (b.1880) a handful of pale, trembling pigeons into the light, . <," University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California

Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning (b.1882) Whitney Museum of American Art New York, N.Y.

Peter Kurd Nito Herrera in Springtime (b.1904) The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Robert Indiana The Calumet (b.1928) The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Waltham, Mass.

Jasper Johns Target with Four Faces (b.1930) The Museum of New York, N.Y.

Ellsworth Kelly Red-Blue (b.1923) Washington Gallery of Modern Art Washington, D.C.

Franz Kline Sun Carrier (1910-1962) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Juke Box (b.1917) The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan

Jack Levine Medicine Show (b.1915) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , Pa,

Loren Maclver Les Baux (b.1909) The Art Institute of , Chicago, Illinois

John Marin Maine Islands (1870-1953) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C,

Robert Motherwell Elegy to Spanish Republic No, LV (b.1915) The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio

Jackson Pollock The Cathedral (1912 1956) Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas

Robert Rauschenberg Summer Rental Number 2 (b.1925) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. (more) - 3 -

Larry Rivers The Final Veteran (b.1923) Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York

Mark Rothko Ochre and Red on Red (b.1903) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Tadashi Sato Submerged Rocks (b.1923) Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu, Hawaii

Ben Shahn Spring (b.1898) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Charles Sheeler Upper Deck (1883-1965) Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass,

Mark Tobey The Avenue (b.1890) Norton Gallery and School of Art West Palm Beach, Florida

Andrew Wyeth Christina's World (b.1917) The , New York, New York

SCULPTURE

Alexander Calder (b. 1898) Whale, II The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (b. 1884) Opulence Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y, Herbert Ferber (b. 1906) The Apocalyptic Rider The New York University Art Collection New York, New York Acrobatic Dancers (b.1904) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. Dimitri Hadzi Helmet V(Elmo) (b. 1921) The Solomon R_ Guggenheim Museum New York3 New York Raoul Hague Sculpture in Walnut (b. 1905) The Joseph H,Hirshhorn Collection New York, New York Edward Higgins Untitled (b. 1930) The Solomon R u Guggenheim Museum New York s New York

(More) Ibram Lassaw Cytherea (b. 1913) The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York Oronzio Maldarelli Bianca No. II (1892-1964) The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York Paul Manship Dancer and Gazelles (b. 1885) The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York Royal Game I (b. 1900) The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York Isamu Noguchi (b. 1904) The Cry The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York Jose de Rivera Homage to the World of Minkqwski (b. 1904) The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York Theodore J. Roszak Cradle Song (b. 1907) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, New York Jason Seley Masculine Presence (b. 1919) The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York David Smith Lectern Sentinel (1906-1965) The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, New York Heinz Warneke Wild Boars (b. 1895) The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Affection (b. 1887) The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica, New York

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