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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Brooklyn and Soto, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio

Madama Butterfly, from the portfolio Metropolitan Opera Fine Art Series

Barbells for Arnold

Molded Plywood Chair

Primary Colors

Dream Sequence

Thinking about Self-Portraits

Aimara Io

Art Circus Participants, Patterson Park

Maquette for Sky Ribbons: an Oklahoma Tribute

Presentation Panel for E Pluribus Unum

Churchill High School Pep Rally

Janet Maxey and Carolyn Smith, from the series Siblings

The Brown Sisters, Harwichport, Massachusetts

Alligator Spring

Me at the Renwick

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