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Pattee, president. Cards were issued by tlie Gallery; each item was 

 labeled in lieu of a catalog. 



February 5 to 39, 1936. — Exhibition of pastels, water colors, etch- 

 ings, drawings, and lithographs (TO) by Mons Breidvik, Norwegian 

 artist, of New York City. Cards were issued by the Gallery to an 

 opening view, and the artist provided a small folder catalog. 



February 5 to 29, 1936. — An exhibition of portraits (37) by Bjorn 

 P. Egeli, of Washington, D. C. Cards to an opening view were issued 

 by the Gallery, and tlie artist provided a folder catalog. 



February 5 to 29, 1936. — Exhibition of vitreous enamels (six speci- 

 mens) by Frances and Richard MacGraw, of New York and Wash- 

 ington. Cards to the opening view were issued by the Gallery ; there 

 was no catalog, labels telling the story. 



April 8 to 29, 1936. — Exhibition of the First Annual Metropolitan 

 State Art Contest, 1936 ; under the auspices of the Department of Fine 

 Arts of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. 

 Samuel A. Swiggett, chairman, cooperating with the following seven 

 Washington art organizations : The Arts Club ; the League of Amer- 

 ican Pen Women ; Miniature Society ; Society of Washington Artists ; 

 Washington Landscape Club ; Washington Society of Etchers ; Wash- 

 ington Water Color Club; and a free-lance group. There were 339 

 exhibits, prints, paintings, and sculpture, by 170 artists; all were 

 labeled. Cards were issued by the Gallery to an opening view. 



June 10 to 30, 1936. — An exhibition of paintings, the work of chil- 

 dren receiving free art instruction in 240 settlement houses and social 

 agencies in the New York area, under the auspices of the Federal Art 

 Project of the Works Progress Administration. 



THE NATIONAL GALLERY REFERENCE LIBRARY 



The library has been increased materially by numerous gifts and 

 purchases. Miss Helen G. Rankin was temporarily employed as 

 librarian. 



SPECIAL DETAILS 



The Acting Director was detailed from November 13 to 18, 1935, 

 to attend the opening of the Cecilia Beaux exhibition at the gallery 

 of the Society of Arts and Letters, New York City, and to study tlie 

 art collections and methods of exhibiting in various art institutions, 

 including the Morgan Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the 

 Roerich Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brook- 

 lyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, and the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Art ; and in Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine 

 Arts, the exhibit of contemporary American miniatures and water 

 colors. 



