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Numismatics
Obverse Description
Obverse Description: CULTURE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, image depicting cellist Pablo Casals performing at the White House.
Reverse Description
Reverse Description: THE LEGACY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY CELLIST PABLO CASALS AT THE WHITE HOUSE, symbols of comedy and drama above "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free... You have to be a free man to be a great artist." above Lincoln Mint insignia.
Provenance
Provenance
Jerry Katz; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.