EEPOKT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 85 



Matthias W. Baldwin, founder of locomotive works, and Thomas A. Edison, 

 inventor. 



In the engineering scene, workers are shown laying tracks for a railroad. In 

 the background is a long iron bridge. James B, Eads, builder of the St. Louis 

 bridge, stands at the left, and Thomas L. Casey, engineer, at the right. One 

 medallion represents Washington A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, 

 and another Stevens, builder of transcontinental railroads. 



Naval Architecture and Commerce are represented by a figure typifying 

 Architecture, showing to Commerce, Industry and Agriculture on a globe held 

 by a youth, the places where they can dispose of their wares. A sailor is repre- 

 sented holding a flag surmounted by a liberty cap, significant of an open-door 

 policy. At one side of this panel stands Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam- 

 boat, and on the other John Ericsson, inventor of the Monitor. The medallions 

 are of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, John C. Fremont, "the Path- 

 finder," Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, Cyrus W. Field, layer of 

 the first Atlantic cable, and John Lenthall, naval constructor. 



A few paintings belonging to the Gallery were lent for exhibition 

 elsewhere, as follows: "Plymouth Hills," by Mr. John W. Beatty, 

 was shown at the Anglo-American ExiDosition in London from May 

 to October, 1914. " Kussian Tea," by 'Mr. Irving R. Wiles, was ex- 

 hibited at Austin, San Antonio and Galveston, Tex., from February 

 to April, 1915, in a loan exhibition assembled by The American 

 Federation of Arts. Four canvases, at the requests of the artists, 

 were sent to the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 

 January, 1915. They consisted of " Plymouth Hills," by Mr. John 

 W. Beatty; "A Good Story," by Miss Clara Taggart MacChesney; 

 " Plenty," by IVIr. Kenyon Cox ; and " May Flowers," by Mrs. Louise 

 Cox. All of the above belonged to the Evans collection. 



Following is a list of the paintings and sculptures exhibited in the 

 Gallery dm-ing last year. It includes both the permanent posses- 

 sions of the Gallery and the loans. 



List! of Paintings and Other Objects in the National Gallery 



OF Art.^ 



BEQUEST OF HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON.^ 



Sir "William Beechey (1753-1839). 



Portrait of Miss Murray. 

 J. Henry Brown (1818—). 



Miniature of President Buchanan. 



Miniature of Harriet Lane Jolinston. (Lent by Miss May S. 

 Kennedy.) 



^ This list is brought down to June 30, 1915. All titles are of paintings in oil 

 unless otherwise stated. 

 * Received in 1906. 



