Gifts United States Bicentennial

magna carta replica , display case

canada through national film board of canada produced book between friends/entre amis photographic essay of life along us-canada border. book given libraries across , special editions presented president gerald ford , other officials.

the government of france , musée du louvre assembled exhibit of paintings in cooperation detroit institute of arts , metropolitan museum of art traveled detroit , new york city after being shown in paris. exhibit, entitled french painting 1774–1830: age of revolution, included work of 94 french artists period. many of 149 works in exhibit had never been seen outside france , included liberty leading people eugène delacroix, jupiter , thetis jean auguste dominique ingres , portrait of maximilien robespierre adélaïde labille-guiard.

japan s government constructed , furnished 513-seat terrace theatre of kennedy center in washington. fifty-three bonsai trees nippon bonsai association donated u. s. national arboretum. bonsai ranged in age 30 350 years , valued @ $4 million (usd).

king juan carlos , queen sofía of spain presented sculptures of bernardo de gálvez, hero of american revolutionary war period , later viceroy of new spain; , don quixote, cervantes fictional hero, on june 3, 1976, on behalf of nation. don quixote sculpted aurelio teno, , equestrian statue bernardo de gálvez juan de Ávalos. spanish government loaned 8 works francisco goya collection of museo del prado featured in exhibit @ national gallery of art. exhibit entitled goya in prado , ran may 6–31, 1976, featuring 2 of goya s best-known works, la maja desnuda (the nude maja) , la maja vestida (the clothed maja).

the parliament of united kingdom loaned 1 of 4 existing copies of magna carta display in capitol. document displayed in case designed artist louis osman consisting of gold, stainless steel, rubies, pearls, saphires, diamonds , white enamel. on base of pegmatite , yorkshire sandstone. document displayed atop gold replica june 3, 1976 until june 13, 1977, when returned. case , gold replica remain on display in capitol.

king of norway olav v, prime minister of norway odvar nordli, , norwegian government established vinland national health sports center in loretto, minnesota.