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ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1928 



Following adjournment at noon the advisory committee visited the 

 gallery rooms in the National Museum Building to consider accept- 

 ance of offerings of art works for the year. The following were 

 accepted: (1) Seven water-color paintings of Greek Temples, by 

 Henry Bacon, designed to serve as a nucleus for a prospective archi- 

 tectural department in the gallery; (2) a three-quarters length 

 portrait of Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, by Daniel Huntington. 

 for the National Portrait Gallery; and (3) portrait busts of Gen. 

 Winfield Scott and William Cullen Bryant, by Henry Kirke Brown, 

 for the Portrait Gallery. 



THE HENRY WARD RANGER FUND PURCHASES 



The paintings purchased during the 3'ear by the council of the 

 National Academy of Design from the fund provided by the Henry 

 Ward Ranger bequest, which are under certain conditions prospective 

 additions to the gallery collections, are as follows, including the 

 names of the institutions to which they have been assigned : 



Title 



63. Cypripedia 



64. The Chiefs Caooe 



65. Feeding Cattle, Winter 



66. Ice Pond 



67. A Long Island Garden. 



68. Mile. Maria Safanoff 



Artist 



Sergeant Kendall, N. A... 

 Belmore Browne 



Harry Leith-Ross. 



Aldro T. Hibbard, A. N. A. 



Childe Hassam, N. A 



Irving R. Wiles, N. A 



Date of purchase 



December, 1927. 

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April, 1928. 



Assignment 



National Gallery of Art, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Montana State College, 

 University of Montana, 

 Bozeman, Mont. 



PhiUips Andover Acade- 

 my, Andover, Mass. 



The Kansas City Art Insti- 

 tute, Kansas City, Mo. 



THE ALFRED DUANE PELL COLLECTION 



Thirty-six pieces of porcelain were added to the Alfred Duane 

 Pell collection, already installed, by Mrs. Pell, Mr. Pell having died 

 March 6, 1924. The lot includes 10 superb pieces of pate-sur-pate 

 by Solon and 4 by his pupil, A. Birks; C pieces of charming Old 

 Worcester ware; 1 piece of the hitherto unrepresented New Hall 

 porcelain; 1 piece of Meissen from a set made for the King of Hol- 

 land; and examples of Capo di Monti, Doccia, and other Italian 

 porcelains. The pieces by Solon are of special interest in rounding 

 out the gallery's exceptional representation of this great master's 

 work. 



THE GEORGE DUPONT PRATT GIFT 



The Thomas Moran painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellow- 

 stone which has been exhibited in the gallery for a number of years 



