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Paul Vickers Gardner, curator of ceramics, attended the Wedgwood 

 International Seminar in Philadelphia on April 12 and 13, 1956, and 

 was moderator of a panel "The Editors Discuss Design," at the con- 

 vention of the American Ceramic Society held in New York City 

 April 23 through 25, 1956. 



Rowland Lyon, exhibits preparator, served on the juries of five 

 local exhibitions and one at La Plata, Md. He exhibited sculpture, 

 prints, and designs at the Silver Spring Art Gallery, Woodward and 

 Lothrop, the Artists Guild of Washington, and the Society of Wash- 

 ington Printmakers. 



The canvases of 14 paintings were cleaned and varnished, and 33 

 frames were renovated. Under special contract, Glenn J. Martin 

 cleaned and restored 10 paintings. Nine paintings by George Catlin 

 were retouched and revarnished for the United States National Mu- 

 seum, and one was relined, cleaned, restretched, and retouched. 



Mrs. Pope gave a talk, illustrated with slides showing various phases 

 of the work involved in preparing exhibitions for travel, to the Cul- 

 tural Attaches Luncheon at the Dupont Plaza Hotel on October 17, 

 1955, and attended meetings of the Southeastern Museums Directors' 

 Council at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Southeastern Museum Officials in 

 Nashville, October 10-15, 1955, and also the annual convention of the 

 American Association of Museums in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26-June 

 1, 1956. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 



Thirteen special exhibitions were held during the year: 



July 19 through August 28, 1955. — "Paintings of Peru, Past and Present," by 

 Kristian Krekovic, held under the sponsorship of His Excellency, the Ambassador 

 of Peru, Sr. Don Fernando Berckemeyer, consisting of 61 paintings. A cata- 

 log was printed with private funds. 



September 1 through 24, 1955. — The Fifth Exhibition of Ceramic Art, spon- 

 sored by the Kiln Club of Washington, D. C., consisting of 177 pieces (71 by local 

 ceramic artists, 69 by invited American artists, and 37 by artists of various 

 nations through their respective embassies or legations in Washington). Dem- 

 onstrations on the potter's wheel were given daily. A catalog was privately 

 printed. 



October 24, 1955, through January 3, 1956. — An exhibition of "Ceramics of the 

 World," in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the 

 United Nations was shown in the lobby of the Natural History Building. It 

 included 71 objects from 43 nations and was assembled from articles in the 

 Division of Ethnology dating from about 1S0O to the present. 



November 26 through December 18, 1955. — An exhibition of 50 watercolors 

 of "Plant Portraits," by Ida Hrybesky Pemberton (1890-1951), inaugurating the 

 tour scheduled by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. A catalog 

 was privately printed. 



January 15 through February 2, 1956. — An exhibition of the Society of Wash- 

 ington Printmakers, consisting of 137 prints. A catalog was privately printed. 



January 15 through February 2, 1956. — A Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

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