152 ANNTJAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1955 



Committee, Art C!ommittee of the New York Hospital, Harvard 

 Committee on the Visual Arts, Committee for the Exhibition of 

 Nineteenth Century French Paintings from American Collections in 

 Paris. Mr. Walker was also a member of the United States National 

 Commission for UNESCO. Perry B. Cott served as President of 

 the Washington Society, Archaeological Institute of America. Miss 

 Shepard was secretary of this organization. 



Mr. Cott served on the following art juries: Corcoran Alumni 

 Association, Arts Club, National Museum Sculpture Exhibition. 



RESTORATION AND REPAIR OF WORKS OF ART 



Necessary restoration and repair of paintmgs and sculpture in the 

 Gallery's collection were made by Francis Sullivan, resident restorer, 

 at the Gallery. 



PUBUCATIONS 



During the year Huntington Cairns contributed an article on 

 "Legal Theory" to a Jurisprudential Symposium in Memory of Felix 

 S. Cohen, published in the Kutgers Law Keview, and reviews of 

 "Aesthetics and the Gastalt," by Ian Kawlins, to Philosophy and 

 Phenomenological Research ; "Definition and Theory in Jurispru- 

 dence," by H. L. A. Hart, to the Philosophical Quarterly ; "The Age of 

 Ideas," by George E.. Havens, to the Washington Post and Times 

 Herald ; and "The Law of Primitive Man," by E. Adamson Hoebel, to 

 the Journal of Politics. 



Mr. Walker wrote an article on a painting by Delacroix in the 

 National Gallery, London, for the Ladies Home Journal. He also 

 prepared the text for a "pocketbook" of works of art in the Gallery's 

 collection to be published by the Harry N. Abrams Company. Mrs. 

 Fern E. Shapley wrote an article on Bingham's "Jolly Flatboatmen" 

 for the Art Quarterly. Mr. Cott wrote an article for the Gulf Oil 

 Orange Disc publication on Delia Robbia sculpture. An article by 

 Miss Mongan entitled, "New Acquisitions in the Lessing J. Rosen- 

 wald Collection" appeared in Arts Digest, and she also wrote an ar- 

 ticle on Norma Morgan for the International Graphic Arts. 



A total of 125,000 leaflets describing paintings in galleries 8, 52, 

 and 57 have been printed and are being distributed to the public in 

 the respective galleries. 



Mr. Walker's monograph on Bellini's "Feast of the Gods" has gone 

 to press. 



Publications in process include Mr. Walker's text for a portfolio of 

 works of art in the Gallery's collection to be published by the Harry 

 N. Abrams Co., an article written by Mrs. Shapley for The Studio, 

 and a book she is preparing to be published by the Phaidon Press. 



