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Media Advisory
Memorial Service for J. Carter Brown (1934-2002)
Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art
When:
3:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Where:
Washington National Cathedral
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Press Contacts:
To arrange press coverage of the service:
Carrie Tydings, Cathedral Press Office (202) 537-6248For background information/images:
Deborah Ziska, Gallery Press Office (202) 842-6353
Who:
Eulogists:
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Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art
(worked as executive curator and in other posts under Brown, 1976-80,
and succeeded him as the Gallery’s director in 1992) -
Dr. Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation, President Emeritus of Brown University (renamed in 1804 in recognition of Nicholas Brown’s contributions)
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U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton
(Brown was a member of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House during the Clinton administration)
Reflection: -
I.M. Pei, architect
(collaborated with Brown on the award-winning design of the
National Gallery’s East Building) -
Scriptural Readings by Brown family members:
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Capt. Nicholas Brown, USN (retired), brother;
former director of National Aquarium, Baltimore -
Elissa Lucinda Rionda Brown, daughter
Officiant: The Very Reverend Nathan D. Baxter
dean of the National Cathedral
Homily: The Reverend Dr. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University (Brown received his AB, summa cum laude, in 1956 and his MBA there in 1958)
Music: Marvis Martin, soprano; José Simbulan, pianist; Paula Robison, flutist; Members of the Cathedral Choral Society and the Choral Arts Society of Washington
Honorary Ushers: Charles Atherton, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; Hugh Newell Jacobsen, architect; Mark Leithauser, Gallery Chief of Design; D. Dodge Thompson, Gallery Chief of Exhibitions; Ambassador F. Hayden Williams, WWII Memorial Site and Design Committee
General Information
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Ave. NW, are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery’s Web site at www.nga.gov.
Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the Fourth Street Entrance of the East or West Building to permit X-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. Any items larger than 17 X 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms. For the safety of the art work and visitors, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor’s back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left at the checkrooms.
For additional press information please call or send inquiries to:
Press Office
National Gallery of Art
2000B South Club Drive
Landover, MD 20785
phone: (202) 842-6353 e-mail: pressinfo@nga.gov
Deborah Ziska
Chief of Press and Public Information
(202) 842-6353
ds-ziska@nga.gov
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