SECRETARY'S REPORT 75 



December 10 tJirough 29. 195^. — The Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Artists' 

 Guild of Washington, consisting of 77 paintings and sculptures. A catalog was 

 privately printed. 



January 6 through 26, 1955. — "Carl Bodmer Paints the Indian Frontier," held 

 under the patronage of His Excellency, the German Ambassador, Heinz L. 

 Krekeler, consisting of 118 watercolors and drawings. A catalog was privately 

 printed. This exhibition was circulated to 11 other Institutions by the Smith- 

 sonian Traveling Exhibition Service. 



January 25, 1955. — A bronze statue, Laboring Youth, by Hermann Blumenthal, 

 presented to the American Nation by His Excellency, the German Ambassador, 

 Heinz L. Krekeler, on behalf of the German people, was received by Pi'esident 

 Dwight D. Eisenhower for the people of the United States in the auditorium of 

 the United States Natural History Building, It was on special exhibition in 

 the lobby until April 25, 1955. 



February // through 27, 1955. — The Fifth Interservice Photography Contest, 

 consisting of over 250 photographs. 



March 6 through 25, 1955.— The Fifty-eighth Annual Exhibition of the Wash- 

 ington Water Color Club, consisting of 171 watercolors, etchings and drawings. 

 A catalog was privately printed. 



Apr-il 3 through 2Jf, 1955. — Exhibit of 60 photographs and 37 watercolors under 

 auspices of the Audubon Society, D. C. Chapter. 



April 3 through 2'/, 1955. — The Twenty-second Annual Exhibition of the Minia- 

 ture Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of ^Yashington, D. C, consisting 

 of 235 examples. A catalog was privately printed. 



May 8 through 31, 1955. — "Under Freedom," an exhibition depicting 300 years 

 of Jewish Life in the United States, presented by the Greater Washington Com- 

 mittee for the American Jewish Tercentenary, consisting of ritual objects, por- 

 traits, sculpture, engravings?, photographs, books, letters, documents, charts, 

 maps, and innumerable other items. A catalog was privately printed. 



June 15 through July 7, 1955. — The Sixty-third Annual Exhibition of the So- 

 ciety of Washington Artists, consisting of 65 paintings and 15 pieces of sculpture. 

 A catalog was privately printed. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Thomas M. Begos, Director. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichaetj, 



JSecretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



