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on the evening of the opening day. Besides the Gallery catalogue 

 an elaborately illustrated catalogue was issued by the association. 

 This was the second exhibition here by this society, the previous one 

 having been held the preceding year. 



A collection of paintings by leading contemporary artists of the 

 United States and Europe, selected in June, 1914, from the inter- 

 national exhibition which had been held at the Carnegie Institute, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., was shown during the year under the auspices of 

 The American Federation of Arts, at museums in ten different cities 

 in this country. The circuit closed early in June, 1915, and, while 

 the American paintings were immediately returned to their owners, 

 those from abroad, in view of the peril of ocean transportation were, 

 with the consent of the artists, deposited in the National Gallery 

 for a period of six months. These foreign paintings, 23 in number, 

 add most interestingly to the loan series, especially as a number of 

 the painters have never been represented in Washington before. 



Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson," of Washington, added 13 important 

 paintings by foreign artists to his notable collection which has been 

 in the Gallery for several years and which is now increased to 24 

 canvases. Mr. W. A. Slater, of Washington, who reclaimed his 

 former loan of 19 valuable paintings on November 7, 1914, returned 

 it to the Gallery in April and May, 1915, together with 4 additional 

 examples. From Mrs. Edward Kemeys, of Washington, were re- 

 ceived 21 paintings, comprising 6 portraits, 5 landscapes and 10 rep- 

 resentations of animal subjects, besides 2 bronzes and 2 plaster 

 casts. The other loans, consisting entirely of paintings, numbered 

 4 from the Rev. F. Ward Denys, of Washington ; 3 from Mrs. George 

 W. Vanderbilt, of Washington ; and 1 each from Mr. John S. Beck ; 

 Mr. W. B. P. Closson, of Newton, Mass.; Mr. W. A. Dickey, of 

 Seattle, Wash., and others; Mrs. Mary F. C. Goldsborough and Mrs. 

 C. V. Purdy, of Washington ; Mr. George Treat, of Valdez, Alaska ; 

 and a friend of the Galler}^, whose name was not disclosed. 



Three of the paintings of the exhibition of the works of William 

 F. Halsall, held the previous year, remained in the Gallery until in 

 February, 1915, when they were removed. These consisted of " Our 

 Glory — Battleship Oregon," "The Ocean Rover" and " Like a Sheeted 

 Ghost." The first mentioned was sent to the Panama-Pacific In- 

 ternational Exposition. 



The beautiful bronze double doors executed by the late Louis 

 Amateis, of Washingion, for the west entrance of the Capitol, were, 

 in 1914, pending provision by Congress for their placing, tempo- 

 rarily deposited in the Museum, where they were installed early in 

 the year, with appropriate base and molding, in the north vestibule 

 of the new building opposite the bronze tablet commemorative of the 

 participation of Kit Carson and Gen. Edward F. Beale in an import- 



