20 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



organized, it is constituted as follows: Mr. Francis D. Millet, presi- 

 dent; Mr. Frederick Crowninshield, representing the Fine Arts 

 Federation, of which he is the president ; Mr. Edwin H. Blashfield, 

 representing the National Academy of Design; Mr. Herbert Adams, 

 representing the National Sculpture Society, of which he is the 

 president; and Mr. William H. Holmes, of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, secretary of the committee. 



The failure to secure last winter the means necessary to provide 

 suitable quarters for the paintings belonging to the gallery has 

 retarded the segregation and arrangement of the collection, which, 

 therefore, continues to be exhibited under very adverse conditions, 

 not at all likely to attract the attention of those who might other- 

 wise gladly contribute to its growth. Some important donations of 

 pictures were, however, received. 



Mr. William T. Evans has added to his collection of contemporary 

 American artists since the last report paintings by Hugo Ballin, 

 George de Forest Brush, F. S. Church, Henry Golden Dearth, 

 Charles Melville Dewey, Paul Dougherty, Ben Foster, Childe Has- 

 sam, Ernest Lawson, Willard LeRoy Metcalf, Robert Reid, R. M. 

 Shurtleff, John H. Twachtman, Henry Oliver Walker, Worthington 

 ^A^iittredge, Carleton Wiggins, Irving R. Wiles, and Frederick Bal- 

 lard Williams. Among other gifts of paintings were the following: 

 " Crossing the Ferry," by Adrien ]Moreau, presented by Mrs. James 

 Lowndes in memory of her father, Lucius Tuckerman ; and " Indian 

 Summer Day," by Max Weyl, presented by thirty of his Washington 

 friends in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the artist's 

 birth. Mr. Charles L. Freer has made very extensive additions to his 

 large collection of American and oriental art, donated to the Institu- 

 tion in 1906, which, it will be recalled, is to remain in the possession 

 of Mr. Freer during his life. 



The collection of thirteen historical marine paintings executed by 

 the late Edward Moran during the later years of his life has, through 

 the courtesy of Mr. Theodore Sutro, of New York, been temporarily 

 deposited in the gallery at the Museum building. The several pictures 

 are entitled as follows: "The Ocean — The Highw^ay of All Nations; " 

 " Landing of Lief Erickson in the New World in the Year 1001 ; " 

 "The Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta;" "The Debarkation of Colum- 

 bus;"" "Midnight Mass on the Mississippi, over the Body of Ferdi- 

 nand De Soto, 1512 ;" " Henry Hudson entering New York Bay, 

 September 11th, 1609;" "Embarkation of the Pilgrims from South- 

 ampton, August 5th, 1620 ; " " First Recognition of the American 

 Flag by a Foreign Government, in the Harbor of Quiberon, France, 

 February 13th, 1778 ; " " Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the 

 Harbor of Tripoli. February 16th, 1804;" "The Brig Armstrong 

 engaging the British Fleet in the Harbor of Fayal, September 26th, 



