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Neither Mellon nor Pope lived to see the museum accomplished; each died in late August 1937, only two months after excavation had begun. On his birthday, 24 March 1937, an Act of Congress accepted the gathering and building funds , and permitted the development Picture of Arts of a museum on the National Mall. In 1929 Mellon had initiated contact with the recently appointed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Greeley Abbot. Mellon was appointed in 1931 as a Commissioner of the Institution’s National Gallery of Art.

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