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„ Number of 



State exhibitions 



Massachusetts 3 



Michigan 2 



Missouri 3 



Montana -^ 3 



New York 1 



North Carolina 4 



Ohio 3 



Pennsylvania 3 



Tennessee 2 



Texas 2 



Virginia 3 



Wisconsin 5 



CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES 



The Curatorial Department accessioned 417 gifts to the Gallery 

 during the fiscal year 1955. Advice was given regarding 365 worlis 

 of art brought to the Gallery for expert opinion, and 65 visits to col- 

 lections were made by members of the staff in coimection with offers 

 of gift or for expert opinion. About 1,500 inquiries requiring re- 

 search were answered verbally and by letter. John Walker, Chief 

 Curator of the Gallery, gave a lecture at the Seattle Musemn of Art 

 on the occasion of the opening of the Samuel H. Kress Collection in 

 that museum. Mr. Walker also lectured on masterpieces of painting 

 in the National Gallery of Art to the Woman's Club in Kiclunond, the 

 museum class at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Twentieth 

 Century Club in Pittsburgh. Miss Elizabeth Mongan gave a series 

 of five lectures on the history of printmaking at the Pennsylvania 

 Academy of Fine Arts. She gave a lecture at Wesleyan University 

 on the First French Engraving. She also conducted a symposium 

 at Bryn Mawr College on Piranesi and one at Swarthmore College 

 on Rembrandt. Charles M. Richards conducted two courses in art 

 history under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Richards, as chairman, prepared the program for the regis- 

 trar's section of the American Association of Museums meetings held 

 in Washington this spring. He attended the Southeastern Museums 

 Conference in Miami, and Miss Katharine Shepard was the official 

 delegate to the General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of 

 America in Boston. 



William Campbell selected reproductions of Gallery paintings 

 which are to be installed in new domiciliary buildings of the U. S. 

 Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Walker served as trustee for the American Federation of Arts, 

 the American Academy in Rome, and the Bureau of University 

 Travel. He also served on the followmg committees; Dumbarton 

 Oaks Visiting Committee, Harvard University Press Visiting 



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