This is the 4th in a series of timelines looking at Rochester art and the Memorial Art Gallery in celebration of the Gallery's centennial in October 2013.
In belated celebration of the Gallery's 50th anniversary, an exhibition on realism in art was mounted.
Wendell Castle's Music Rack No. 4 exhibited in the Rochester Finger-Lakes Show in May 1964.
The Gallery announced on April 23, 1965 that the firm of Waasdorp, Northrup and Kaelber had been engaged to plan the Gallery's new addition.
As part of a British Festival held in Rochester in Fall 1965, the Gallery assembled a Pre-Raphaelite exhibition.
Wendell Castle won the Juror's Show award at the 1965 Rochester Finger-Lakes exhibition.
On September 12, 1966, ground was broken for the Gallery's second addition.
Archibald Miller won the 1966 Lillian Fairchild award for sculpture.
While the Gallery's new addition was under construction, artworks traveled to city schools in the Artmobile.
In 1967 the Monroe County Legislature formed the Metropolitan Arts Resources Committee, to advise the Legislature on arts policy and to aid arts & cultural activities in the county.
In 1968, the Gallery Council funded the acquisition of Hyacinthe Rigaud's painting of the Archbishop of Paris, Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc.
