This is the 3rd in a series of timelines looking at Rochester art and the Memorial Art Gallery in celebration of the Galley's centennial in October 2013.
Rush Rhees died in January 1939.
In early 1939, the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Memorial Art Gallery presented a Program of Integration to the University.
Gertrude Herdle Moore chaired a committee to select sculpture for the Spanish-American War Memorial in Rochester.
As during the First World War, the Gallery prepared to be of service to the Rochester community during the war years.
James Dexter Havens was honored with the Lillian Fairchild award in 1939 for his wood block prints.
The Gallery exhibited George Eastman's 18th-century paintings in December 1939.
Beginning in Fall term, 1940, the Gallery offered a course in Museum Methods to University of Rochester students majoring in Fine Arts.
In 1940 John C. Menihan won the Lillian Fairchild award for painting, watercolors & lithographs.
In 1940, the Gallery's volunteer fundraising organization was organized.
Rochester Riches was the title of a January 1943 article in Art Digest, discussing purchases made by the Memorial Art Gallery with funds donated by R.T. Miller, Jr.
