SECRETARY'S REPORT 73 



INFORMATION SERVICE AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 



In addition to the many requests for information received by mail 

 and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office numbered 2,342, 

 Examination was made of 77-4 works of art submitted for identifica- 

 tion. 



An article, "Harriet Lane Johnston and the National Collection of 

 Fine Arts," by Thomas M. Beggs, was prepared for the General Ap- 

 pendix to the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1954. 



Special catalogs were published for the following seven exliibitions : 

 American Primitive Paintings and Fifty Years of Danish Silver 

 (published abroad) ; Austrian Drawings and Prints; Brazilian Land- 

 scape Architecture by Roberto Burle Marx; Goya Drawings and 

 Prints; Nineteenth Century American Paintings from the Maxim 

 Karolik Collection; and Watercolors and Prints by Redoute. The 

 last five contained acknowledgments written by Mi-s. Annemarie H. 

 Pope, chief of the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. 



At the invitation of its Foreign Office, Mr. Beggs was guest of the 

 Federal Republic of Germany from October 18 to November 17, 1954, 

 visiting leading museums and art centers. 



Mr. Beggs served as sole juror of the Sixth Annual Exhibition of 

 the Florida Artists Group at the Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, 

 Fla., and spoke at its symposium April 29 and 30, 1955. On March 21, 

 he was one of two judges for the 22d Amiual Exhibition of the Minia- 

 ture Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of Washington, D. C. 



Paul Gardner, curator of ceramics, gave talks (illustrated) to the 

 Garden Club, Largo, Md., on October 19, 1954, and the Arlington 

 Branch of the American Association of University Women (gallery) 

 on January 20, 1955. He served as one of the judges for the 24th 

 Annual Photogi-aphic Salon at the Washington County Museum, 

 Hagerstown, Md., on January 26, 1955. 



Mrs. Pope visited 11 European countries, including England, 

 France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, 

 Finland, Norway, and Demnark, between June 4 and August 17, 1954. 

 She discussed exhibitions from these countries for circulation in the 

 United States and American exhibitions which might be sent abroad. 



ISIrs. Pope represented the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Serv- 

 ice at the Southeastern Museums Conference held at Miami, Fla., Oc- 

 tober 19-23, 1954, and also spoke at tlie opening of the Goya Drawings 

 and Prints Exliibition at the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo., June 

 8-10, 1955. She attended the opening of the new wing at the J. B. 

 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky., and the opening of the Goya 

 Drawings and Prints exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

 New York, N. Y. , ' 



