Executive Order 12174—Federal Paperwork Reduction
11/29/1979
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We have no official art in this country, and I pray that we never will.
It combines a reverence for the past with an eagerness for the future.
This building is a gift of Paul Mellon, of his late sister, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, and of the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
The National Gallery symbolizes our belief in the freedom and the genius of the human mind which is manifested in art.