GIFT ART GALLERY
| MR. A. MELLON'S BENEFICENCE WASHINGTON, January 2. President Hoosevelt announces that the former Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Andrew Mellon, has offered to donate his famous 19,000,000-dollar art collection to become the nucleus of a National Gallery of Art to be established near the Smithsonian institution, in the hope of making Washington rival Paris as an art capital. Mr. Mellon also has offered to erect a 9X00,000-dollar building to house the gallery and to provide an endowment fund, and has urged other citizens to make art donations. President Roosevelt thanked Mr. i Mellon and promised to submit the matter to Congress.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 9
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104GIFT ART GALLERY Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 9
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