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several visits to Europe and the Orient. These additions have been 

 the subject of three supplemental transfers, the last of wliich was 

 executed on July 22, 1910. The following summary of the compo- 

 sition of the collection at the close of last year conveys only a 

 suggestion of its richness: 



American art is represented by the works of 6 painters, as follows : 

 Thomas Wilmer Dewing, by 21 oil paintings, 8 pastels, and 1 silver 

 point; Abbott Henderson Thayer, by 10 oil paintings and 1 water 

 color; Dwight William Try on, by 26 oil paintings, 2 water colors 

 and 12 pastels; Childe Hassam, by 1 oil painting; J. Gari Melchers, 

 by 1 oil painting, a portrait of President Koosevelt; and James 

 Abbott McNeill Whistler, by 58 oil paintings, 4.3 water colors, 32 

 pastels, 110 drawings and sketches, 3 wood engravings made after 

 his designs, 402 etchings and dry points (over 600 impressions), 166 

 lithographs (190 impressions), 37 original copper plates, including 

 the Thames set, and the entire woodwork and decoration of the 

 famous Peacock Room from the London residence of the late F. R. 

 Leyland. 



The oriental part of the collection consists of choice and rare 

 examples of paintings, pottery, and other kinds of objects, assembled 

 at much pains and with careful discrimination. The period covered 

 extends back some twenty centuries, and the number of oriental 

 masters represented is exceptionally great. The paintings are 

 entu'ely Japanese and Chinese, and comprise 146 screens, 71 panels, 

 338 Kakemono, 67 Makimono or scroll paintings, 15 albums of 

 paintings, and 13 Tibetan paintings. The pottery numbers 1,506 

 pieces, of which 706 are Japanese, 214 Korean, 189 Chinese, 86 

 Persian, 128 Rakka, and 82 Egyptian, the remainder coming from 

 other parts of central and western Asia. The miscellaneous objects, 

 of wliich there are 187, include figures, statuettes, sculpture, mirrors, 

 boxes, etc., in bronze, stone, wood, and lacquer, and a number of 

 Byzantine gold ornaments and medallions. There is also a collection 

 of over 600 specimens of ancient Egyptian glass, consisting of bottles, 

 vases, and miscellaneous shapes. 



During the year Mr. William T. Evans added 30 examples to his 

 notable collection, which now numbers 114 pieces and represents 

 80 modern American artists, the most of whom are still living. 

 The collection consists wholly of paintings in oil, with the exception 

 of a fire etching on wood, by Mr. J. William Fosdick. Three 

 paintings belonging in the original gift were replaced by other 

 examples by the same artists. A complete list of the collection 

 is given at the end of this section. 



For the most noteworthy loan of the year the Gallery is indebted 

 to the kindness of Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, of Washington. Received 

 in time for exhibition on the opening day, it entirely occupies one of 



