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Transcript: Profile: Life and career of former National Gallery of Art director J. Carter Brown, who died at the age of 67
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- June 18, 2002
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Profile: Life and career of former National Gallery of Art director
J. Carter Brown, who died at the age of 67
Host: LIANE HANSEN, ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Liane Hansen.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
J. Carter Brown, the longtime director of the National Gallery of
Art, has died after a battle with cancer of the blood. During his
23 years at the gallery, Brown acquired works by Picasso and Raphael,
he doubled the exhibition space and increased gallery attendance
by much more than that. Brown was also chairman of the US Commission
of Fine Arts, ...
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