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Twenty-seven exhibitions are in preparation, 26 for circulation in 

 the United States and 1 abroad, as follows : 



FOR CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES 



American Printinakers. German Art Books. 



A Half Century of Architectural Edu- Contemporary German Prints. 



cation. Japan II by (second edition), Werner 



Contemporary American Glass. Bischof . 



American Jewelry and Related Objects Japanese Woodcuts II (second edition). 



II (second edition). Landscape Architecture Today. 



Argentine Children as Illustrators. A. J. Miller Watercolors. 



Recent Work by Harry Rertoia. Perceptions. 



Contemporary Brazilian Prints. Prints by Henri-Georges Adam and 



Canadian Abstract Paintings. John Paul Jones. 



Prints by Chodowiecki. Sixty Swedish Books. 



Contemporary Danish Architecture. Swedish Rock Carvings. 



Dutch Art, 194(>-1956. Venetian Villas II (second edition). 



Early Prints and Drawings of Cali- The World of Edward Weston. 



fornia. Fritz Winter and Hans Uhlmann. 

 German Architecture Today. 



FOR CIRCULATION ABROAD BY THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY 



John Marin 



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 2,257. 

 Examination was made of 598 works of art submitted for identification. 



An article, "The Golden Brush of Kristian Krekovic," by Thomas 

 M. Beggs, was published in the December 1955 issue of the American 

 Artist and reprinted (revised and translated) in Cultura Peruana, 

 January 1956. 



Special catalogs were published for the following six exhibitions: 

 Italian Arts and Crafts ; German Drawings ; Hannah Ryggen ; Con- 

 temporary Finnish Architecture; Venetian Villas; and Finnish 

 Crafts — Tapio Wirkkala and Eut Bryk. The last five contained 

 acknowledgments written by Mrs. Annemarie H. Pope, chief of the 

 Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. 



In recognition of the significant contribution Mrs. Pope had made 

 to the re-establishment of cultural relations between the United States 

 and Germany, she was decorated with the Order of Merit of the Fed- 

 eral Republic of Germany by German Ambassador Heinz L. Krekeler 

 on April 28, 1956. 



Mr. Beggs discussed the problem of a college museum for classical 

 antiquities at Howard University on December 13, 1955. He was 

 also a speaker at the biennial art banquet of the National League of 

 American Pen Women on April 8, 1956, at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. 

 He served as a judge for four exhibitions in the "Washington area. 



