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Justice J. Harry Covington in January 1917, during reconstruction 

 of the Court building, were returned to the Supreme Court of the 

 District of Columbia through Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat in 

 September 1935. 



Walter A. Swinney, of Baltimore, Md., on August 1, 1935, with- 

 drew his painting, The Holy Family, which had been in the care 

 of the Gallery since February 1920. 



The self portrait by George Catlin was returned on October 17, 

 1935, to Miss Mary Cogswell Kinney, of New York City, grand- 

 daughter of the subject, who lent it in July 1933. 



An oil painting, On the Lido, Venice, by H. Corrodi, Rome, 

 received in October 1927, was, on October 22, 1935, delivered, by direc- 

 tion of the owner, Mrs. Arthur T. Brice, to the Women's National 

 Democratic Club, Washington, D. C. 



Two early American portraits by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) of 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Crathorne Montgomery, lent by Mrs. Mary Mont- 

 gomery Norton in 1932, were, by authorization of Mrs. Norton, with- 

 drawn on November 8, 1935, by Mr. Robert Montgomery, of Villanova, 

 Pa. 



The large painting by George DeForest Brush, Indian Burial, 

 lent to the Gallery in July 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. Brush, was with- 

 drawn by them on June 9, 1936. 



The plaster death mask of Napoleon, signed Antommarchi, lent 

 to the Gallery in April 1927 by Mrs. Louise Rochon Hoover, of 

 Washington, D. C, was withdrawn by Mrs. Hoover in January 1936. 



Eleven paintings and one marble, received as a loan in 1910 from 

 the Duchess de Arcos, were withdrawn by her estate on February 18, 

 1936. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 



Eight exhibitions were held, as follows : 



September 19 to October 6, 1935. — Exhibition of national and 

 international high school art, sponsored by the American Federation 

 of Arts and Scholastic, the American High School Weekly. Invi- 

 tations to an informal opening and an illustrated catalog contained in 

 a special number of Scholastic were issued by the sponsors. 



October 18 to November i^, 1936. — Exhibition of 497 intaglio prints, 

 etchings, engravings, and drypoints, executed by members of the 

 Chicago Society of Etchers; offered as a gift to the Gallery by the 

 president, Lee Sturgis, the executive board of the society, and Mrs. 

 Bertha E. Jaques, its secretary-treasurer. Cards were issued by the 

 Gallery ; each print was labeled in lieu of a catalog. 



December <5, 1935., to January 5, 1936. — Exhibition of miniatures 

 (53) by members of the American Society of Miniature Painters, New 

 York City, under the auspices of that society and Mrs. Elsie Dodge 



