Mona Lisa in Camelot

Abbott, James A.

Académie des Beaux-Arts

Accent (CBS television program)

Adams Jr., Frederick B.

Adenauer, Konrad

Agnelli, Marcella

Air France jet crash

Alexandre (Parisian hair stylist)

Alphand, Hervé

Embassy luncheon

Hours security incident

Kennedys’ Paris trip

meetings with Hours

Metropolitan Museum party and

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

unveiling ceremony

Alphand, Nicole

holiday season (1962)

Kennedys’ Paris trip

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

unveiling ceremony

Alsop, Susan Mary

Anderson, Admiral

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Annenberg, Walter

Annigoni, Pietro

Anti-Memoirs (Malraux)

“Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer” (Rembrandt)

“Arts and the National Government, The” (Heckscher)

Assumption of the Virgin, The (Poussin)

Atlanta Arts Association and jet crash

Auchincloss, Hugh D.

Auchincloss estate (Merrywood)

Auchincloss III, Hugh D.

Balanchine, George

Baldridge, Letitia (“Tish”)

art inquiries and

on Jackie Kennedy

Baldridge, Letitia (“Tish”) (continued)

Malraux state dinner

unveiling ceremony

Walker’s illness

Baudelaire, Charles

Beatrix, Princess of the Netherlands

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Berensen, Bernard

Birth of Venus, The (Bouguereau)

Black, Mrs. Millard

“Blockbuster” museum exhibitions

Boathouse on a River (Cézanne)

Boating Party (Cassatt)

Bohlen, Charles E. (“Chip”)

Cuban missile crisis

Boudin, Stéphane

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe

Brown, J. Carter

as National Gallery director

unveiling ceremony

Buoninsegna, Duccio di

Cairns, Huntington/wife

Calnan, Matilda Loeser

Calnan, Philippa

Campbell, Joseph

Campion, John E.

Kennedy family protection

Mona Lisa protection

Carmichael, Leonard

gown for unveiling ceremony

on Jackie Kennedy

Cézanne paintings

in National Gallery

Chagall paintings

Chapelain-Midy, Roger

Chatelain, Jean

traveling with Mona Lisa

Chayefsky, Paddy

Chicago Daily Tribune

Churchill, Winston

Cleveland, Grover/wife and daughter Marion

Cohen, Mrs. Burton

Mona Lisa loan and

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and

Collingwood, Charles

Condition, La Humaine (Man’s Fate by Malraux)

Connoisseur magazine

Constitution (U.S.)

Coolidge, Calvin

Copley, John Singleton

Copley Family, The (Copley)

analysis of Mona Lisa condition

mounting painting

protection of Mona Lisa

Croiselle, Georges

Cuban missile crisis

detection of missiles

president’s address to nation

press learning of

U.S. meetings on

See also specific individuals

Cushing, Richard Cardinal

Da Vinci, Leonardo. See Leonardo da Vinci

collection commitment

National Gallery of Art

relationship with Walker

David, Jacques-Louis

De Gaulle, Charles

George Washington letter and

Kennedys’ Paris visit

nuclear weapons and

United Nations and

De Gaulle/Mona Lisa loan

Embassy dinner and

letter to the president

U.S. gratitude to

De Givenchy, Hubert

De Pompadour, Madame

De Valera, Eamond

Declaration of Independence (U.S.)

Devonshire, Duke/Duchess

D’Harnoncourt, René

Di Benvenuto, Girolamo

Diaghilev, Serge

Dillon, Douglas C.

Douglas-Home, Robin

Drummond, Lady Margaret Gwendolen Mary

see also Walker, Margaret

Drummond, Sir Eric (Earl of Perth)

Du Pont, Henry Francis

White House Fine Arts Committee

White House restoration

Earl of Perth (Sir Eric Drummond)

Eisenhower, President

Elizabeth, Queen

Embassy dinner, Mona Lisa loan

Fanfani, Amintore

Feidler, Ernest

Mona Lisa security

sound system and

Finley, David E.

Fitzgeralds of Ireland

Folliard, Edward

Andrew Mellon and

“chats” with Mona Lisa

covering Mona Lisa story

Mona Lisa loan idea

news covered by

traveling with Mona Lisa

on unveiling ceremony

Folliard, Mary Helen

Forest, The (Cézanne)

Fourth of July (Moses)

Foy, Mrs. Martin

Francis I, King

Leonardo da Vinci and

portrait by Titian

Franklin, Benjamin/portrait

Frick, Henry Clay

Gallagher, Mary

Gardanne (Cézanne)

Gherardini, Lisa

see also Mona Lisa

Ghirlandajo, Domenico

Giocondo, Francesco del

Girl With a Watering Can (Renoir)

Giuliano de’ Medici bust

Glen Jr., John H.

Glen Ora estate

Goodwin, Richard

Grand Central Terminal preservation

Gromyko, Andrei

Guardian newspaper

Guys, Constantin

Halberstam, David

Hammersmith Farm

Harding, President

Harriman, Marie

Harriman, W. Averell

Hautecoeur, Louis

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hayes, Lloyd D.

Heckscher, August

on Jackie Kennedy

Mona Lisa loan

as presidential arts consultant

Twentieth Century Fund and

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway, Mary

Hennessey, John Pope

Hoover, President

Houdon’s bust of Voltaire

Hours, Madeleine

childhood/education

Embassy luncheon and

Louvre evacuation

meetings with Ambassador Alphand

Mona Lisa travels to Tokyo/Moscow

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

position/work at Louvre

Hours, Madeleine/Mona Lisa loan

condition analysis

meetings with Walker

Metropolitan Museum

opposition to loan

public exhibition

return to Louvre/analysis

security incident

security/protection measures

unveiling ceremony/evening

in Washington with Mona Lisa

House on the Marne (Cézanne)

Houses on a Hill (Cézanne)

Istomin, Eugene

trip to National Gallery

Jefferson, Thomas

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (National Cultural Center)

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

John XXIII, Pope

Johnson, Ladybird

Cézanne paintings

unveiling ceremony

as White House hostess

Johnson, Lyndon

Cuban missile crisis

unveiling ceremony

Josephine, Empress

Kennedy, Caroline

father’s death

at time of Cuban missile crisis

Kennedy, Jacqueline

admiration of all things French

admiration of Malraux

Americans views of

art preferences

birthday card to Walker

communication with Walker after loan

Cuban missile crisis and

on French National Television

Grand Central Terminal preservation

guarding private life

holiday season (1962)

husband’s death

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

Lafayette Square revitalization

leaving White House

letter to Walker before leaving White House

Malraux visit invitations/preparations

National Gallery tour for Malraux

President Kennedy’s portrait and

promotion of National Gallery

public support of the arts

at state dinner honoring Nobel laureates

at Viking Press

Walker’s illness and

White House guidebook

Yellow Oval Room after JFK funeral

see also Malraux, André/U.S. visit

Kennedy, Jacqueline and White House art/restoration

“arts czar,” 23

Benjamin Franklin portrait

Cézanne paintings

Louis XVI sitting room

State Dining Room

summary of art work

televised tour of the White House

White House guidebook and

Yellow Oval Room

see also White House Fine Arts Committee

Kennedy, Jacqueline childhood/education

art preferences

historical knowledge and

National Gallery and

Paris studies and

preparatory schools

Vassar College and

Vogue magazine’s Prix de Paris

Kennedy, Jacqueline/Malraux state dinner

Mona Lisa promise

Kennedy, Jacqueline/Mona Lisa loan

arrival ceremony

comforting Walker

communications with Walker

importance/effects of

Malraux promise on

Metropolitan Museum of Art

as personal loan to Kennedys

president’s image and

request to Malraux

thank-you letter to de Gaulle

unveiling ceremony

unveiling ceremony problems and

Kennedy, John F.

Campion and death

France-U.S. nuclear weapons debate

holiday season (1962)

Louis XVI sitting room

Malraux state dinner/toast

manned space program

on nuclear weapons

President’s Advisory Council on the Arts

selecting gift for wife

Special Consultant to the President on the Arts

speech on arts/culture, Amherst College

at state dinner honoring Nobel laureates

Time magazine’s “Man of the Year,” 25-26

Kennedy, John F./Cuban missile crisis

address to nation

communication with Soviet leaders

Kennedy, John F./Mona Lisa loan

approval on ceremonies

press conference announcement

protection/security

at time of arrival

unveiling ceremony

unveiling ceremony speech

Walker’s responsibilities

Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier

Kennedy, Robert

Cuban missile crisis

Kennedy Jr., John

at time of Cuban missile crisis

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kirsten, Lincoln

Knight, Christopher

Kress, Samuel H./Collection

La Vallière, Louise de

Lacouture, Jean

Lafayette, General

Lafayette, Madame de

Lafayette Square revitalization

Landscape with a Tower (Cézanne)

Lasker, Albert D./wife

Leaming, Barbara

Lehman, Bobby/Collection

Leonardo da Vinci

ideas/talents of

Mona Lisa painting technique

see also Mona Lisa

Lewis, Sinclair

Lewis, Wilmarth

Life magazine

Lincoln, Evelyn

Lindbergh, Anne

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Lippmann, Walter

Loeser, Charles A.

Loeser, Matilda

London Observer

Look magazine

Los Angeles Times

Louie-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles

Louis XIV, King

Louvat, Ferdinand

security after Mona Lisa theft

television show link with National Gallery

see also specific art; specific individuals

Louvre et les Tuileries, Le

MacLeish, Archibald

Macmillan, Harold

Madame Henriot (Renoir)

Maharajah of Jaipur and wife

Main Street (Lewis)

Malraux, André

as author/social critic

as cultural minister

at Embassy luncheon

JFK’s conversation on nuclear weapons

Kennedys Paris visit

relationship with de Gaulle

Whistler’s Mother loan

in World War II

Malraux, André/Mona Lisa loan

announcement to Louvre curators

curators analysis

Folliard’s request

French criticism/protests against

French national pride and

Jackie Kennedy’s request

leaving Washington

painting’s return to Louvre

as personal loan to Kennedys

promise to Jackie Kennedy

protection/security

public exhibition/attendance and

unveiling ceremony

U.S. gratitude to

Malraux, André/U.S. visit

French Institute address

National Gallery tour

Overseas Writers Club and

Robert/Ethel Kennedy

Malraux, Madeleine

unveiling ceremony

Manet, Édouard

Man’s Fate (La Condition Humaine by Malraux)

March, Frederic

Marshall, George

Maysles, Albert

McCone, John A.

McIntosh, Frank H.

McNamara, Robert S.

Cuban missile crisis and

National Gallery of Art and

National Gallery of Art

White House guidebook

Merrywood (Auchincloss estate)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Lehman Collection

see also Mona Lisa loan/ Metropolitan Museum of Art; specific individuals

Mohen, Jean-Pierre

“Mona Lisa” by Nat King Cole

background/ancestors

exhibition catalog on

Francesco del Giocondo and

as president’s relative

speculations on

Mona Lisa (painting)

2005 move in Louvre

Italy vs. France claims

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

painting technique

relocations and repairs

scientific investigation revelations on

speculations on

text for exhibition catalog

theft/damage of

travels to Tokyo/Moscow

vandalism/repairs

Mona Lisa hair-do

airliner vs. ocean liner travel

arrival ceremony

arrival ceremony plans

condition at time of loan

exhibition funding

French ceremony stipulations

French protection stipulations

French protests against

French security stipulations

French stipulations on

packing at Louvre

press corps exhibition

protection/security on SS France

SS France trip plans

SS United States voyage

storm during voyage

testing protection

text for exhibition catalog

trip from New York to National Gallery

trip to Paris-Le Havre dock

U.S. gratitude for

“Vault X,” 126

see also specific individuals

Mona Lisa loan/Metropolitan Museum of Art

ending ceremony

exhibition plans

Jackie Kennedy and

presentation of painting

public exhibition/attendance

Mona Lisa public exhibition (Washington)

attendance records

exhibition booklets

Hours security incident

merchandise sales

Mona Lisa unveiling ceremony

hanging painting

president’s speech

president’s speech writing

Relay satellite television pictures

sound system and

“Mona Mania,” 172

Monet paintings

Monroe, President

Morot-Sir, Edouard

“Mrs. Yates” (Stuart)

Murphy, Michael J.

Murrow, Edward R.

Musée du Jeu de Paume

Musée National du Château de Malmaison

Mussorgsky, Modest

Napoleon/portrait

Natalle, Elizabeth J.

National Cultural Center (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Gallery of Art

early donors to

Jackie Kennedy’s promotion of

Mona Lisa arrival

Mona Lisa exhibition for press corps

Mona Lisa exhibition for staff

Paul Mellon and

television show link with Louvre

“Vault X,” 80

see also Mona Lisa loan; specific individuals; Walker, John

National Geographic Society

New York Daily News

New York Post

New York Times

New Yorker, The

New Yorker Magazine

Nixon, President

Nocturne (Whistler)

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Nuclear weapons

France-U.S. debate on

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

see also Cuban missile crisis

Olympia (Manet)

Oppenheimer, Robert

Orly plane crash

Ormsby-Gore, David

Overseas Writers Club

Page, Geraldine

Paris Opéra Ballet

Parisien Libéré

Pauling, Linus C.

Pell, Claiborne

Perse, Saint-John

Embassy luncheon for

Perugia, Vincenzo

Philip, Prince of England

Phillips Gallery theft

Picasso paintings

“Pictures at an Exhibition” (Mussorgsky)

Pietà (Michelangelo) travels

Piqueras, Lorenzo

Pope, John Russell

Post-Dispatch

Power of Myth, The (Campbell)

Prendergast, Maurice

President’s Advisory Council on the Arts

Prix Goncourt literary prize

Public Happiness, The (Heckscher)

Publishers Weekly

holiday season (1962)

Malraux book and

Radziwill, Prince

Relay satellite television pictures

Louvre-National Gallery of Art link

Mona Lisa unveiling ceremony

Rembrandt’s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer

Renoir pictures

Girl With a Watering Can

in National Gallery

Robert Frost Library

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

National Gallery of Art

Rorimer, James J.

Malraux visit and

relationship with Walker

World War II and

see also Mona Lisa loan/Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rorimer, James J./Mona Lisa loan

handling Mona Lisa

meeting with Walker

preparation for

public reaction

Rosenwald, Lessing/sister

Cézanne paintings

Cuban missile crisis

unveiling ceremony

Salinger, Pierre

announcement on Jackie Kennedy’s pregnancy

Cuban missile crisis

French National Television

Malraux state dinner

Sassoon, Donald

Schlesinger, Arthur

dinner with Kennedys

on Jackie Kennedy

speechwriting by

White House guidebook

Mona Lisa protection

president/president’s family protection

U.S. documents and

see also Campion, John E.

Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector (Walker)

Serullaz, Maurice

Shepard, Alan B.

Shepard, Tazwell

Sofia Brothers trucking firm

Sofia Jr., Theodore

Sonnenberg, Hubert Von

Sorensen, Theodore

on Jackie Kennedy

Space program (U.S.)

Mona Lisa trip plans

Mona Lisa voyage

SS United States

Mona Lisa voyage

Stevenson, Adlai

Cuban missile crisis

Metropolitan Museum

Stuart, Gilbert

Styron, William

Sullivan, Francis

Sulzberger, Cyrus Leo

Taylor, John M.

Taylor, Maxwell

Telstar satellite

Accent (CBS television program)

Jackie Kennedy’s White House tour

Louvre-National Gallery of Art link

Mona Lisa unveiling ceremony

Thayer, Mary Van Rensselaer

Thompson, Llewellyn

Time magazine

Time magazine’s “Man of the Year,” 25-26

Toulouse-Lautrec

“Treasures of Tutankhamun,” 219-220

Truman, President

Tut, King, exhibition

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Campbell

Vandalism of art

at London’s National gallery

Walker’s fears of

Venouil, Josette

Vogue magazine

Vogue magazine’s Prix de Paris

Von Kluck, Alexander

on Accent (CBS television program)

Chester Dale and

Chester Dale’s death and

communication with Jackie Kennedy after loan

Cuban missile crisis and

daughter Gillian

Devonshire Collection opening night dinner

views on role of museums and culture and

illness of (1961)

Jackie Kennedy as a child and

Jackie Kennedy’s birthday card to

Jackie Kennedy’s letter before leaving White House

Malraux National Gallery visit and

Malraux state dinner

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

President Kennedy’s portrait and

president’s gift to wife

relationship with Rorimer

summer vacation (1962)

taking position at National Gallery

ties with wealthy families/collectors

unveiling of The Assumption of the Virgin

Whistler’s Mother loan

White House Fine Arts Committee

White House guidebook

see also Cézanne paintings

Walker, John Anthony

Walker, John/Mona Lisa loan

airliner vs. ocean liner travel

analysis of arrival condition

arrival ceremony

arrival ceremony plans

calls to National Gallery on

Chester Dale and

communications with Jackie Kennedy

end of responsibilities

ending ceremony/speech

exhibition for press corps

exhibition for staff

exhibition funding

exhibition preparations

French stipulations on

hanging painting

health issues and

Hours security incident

letters to Malraux

meeting with Louvre officials

Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition responsibilities

opposition to loan

preparation for leaving Washington

protection/security measures

public exhibition/attendance and

resignation thoughts

responsibility acceptance

responsibility and

return to France logistics

return to Louvre

text for exhibition catalog

trip to Metropolitan Museum

unveiling ceremony

unveiling ceremony plans

unveiling ceremony problems

Walker, John/Mona Lisa loan (continued)

views on moving art

views on (six years after)

see also Mona Lisa loan

Walker, Margaret

as curator’s wife

unveiling ceremony

see also Drummond, Lady Margaret Gwendolen Mary

Walton, William

Warnecke, John Carl

Washington, George

Washington Post

Watson, Francis

Webster, Daniel

on Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy’s White House tour

Malraux state dinner preparations

Whistler, James McNeill

Whistler’s Mother (Whistler)

National Gallery-Louvre link television show

Lincoln’s chairs

see also Kennedy, Jacqueline and White House art/restoration

White House Fine Arts Committee establishment see also specific members

White House Historical Association

Widener, Joseph E.

Wildenstein, Daniel

Wildenstein & Company

Wilder, Thornton

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Williams, Tennessee

Winckler, Jean-Claude

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Wrightsman, Charles

Wrightsman, Jayne

Yalta Conference

Zöllner, Frank