SECRETARY'S REPORT 107 



INFORMATION SERVICE AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 



In addition to the approximately 16,000 requests for information 

 received by mail and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office 

 numbered 1,500. In all, 167 works of art were examined by the Di- 

 rector. 



Special catalogs were published for the following traveling exhibi- 

 tions : Italian Drawings, Sardinian Crafts, Irish Architecture of the 

 Georgian Period, and The World of Werner Bischof . A special cata- 

 log of Traveling Exhibitions for 1961-62 was also published. A 64- 

 page illustrated brochure containing a cover design and introduction 

 by Thomas M. Beggs was published for the Arts and Archeology of 

 Viet-Nam exhibition. 



The director visited several European countries to study art gal- 

 leries, their establisliment, and their relationships with government 

 and other organizations, to confer with museum officials, collectors, 

 and donors to the collections, and also to inspect historic buildings in 

 process of restoration. 



Six paintings in oil on canvas from the permanent collections were 

 cleaned and revarnished, and 28 picture frames were repaired and 

 refinished with the assistance of Buildings Management Service, which 

 constructed and finished frames for four etchings. 



Albert C. Wagner restored the French Ship model (No. 442) in 

 the Gellatly Collection and Joseph Tembach restored the following 

 items from that collection: two Oriental pins, gold and glass (No. 

 187) ; Saint, alabaster (No. 377) ; Spanish King, wood (No. 569) ; St. 

 George, wood (No. 381) ; St. Peter, alabaster (No. 378). 



Contracts were let for the relining and restoring by Harold F. Cross 

 of the following: Ariadne, by Wyatt Eaton; Charles G. Abbot, by 

 Nicholas Brewer; Pegasus, by Albert P. Ryder; Robert Hare, by Al- 

 van Clark ; Richard Delafield, by Charles C. Curran ; Cup of Death, 

 by Elihu Vedder; Laura Alice, by Alice Pike Barney; The Brown 

 Kimona, by Irving Wiles; Italian Woman and Child, by Alice Pike 

 Barney ; and two small landscapes by Alice Pike Barney. 



Henri G. Courtais is under contract for renovation of the follow- 

 ing paintings : St. Ursula, by undetermined artist ; Virgin Enthroned, 

 by Abbott H. Thayer ; Thomas George Hodgkins, by Robert Gordon 

 Hardie; Spencer Fullerton Baird, by Robert Gordon Hardie; Rich- 

 ard Rush, by T. W. Wood ; Joseph Henry, by Henry Ulke ; ; Charles 

 Doolittle Walcott, by Samantha B. Huntley; Ruins, by Francesco 

 Guardi ; Young Girl Seated, by Thomas Dewing ; Music, by Thomas 

 Dewing; The Golden Age, by Jolin LaFarge; Amagansett to East 

 Hampton, by George Bogert; Duchess of Ancaster, by Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds; Mrs. Price, by William Hogarth; Smuggler's Notch, by 

 Chauncey Ryder; The Island, by Edwin W. Redfield; and Viscountess 

 Hatton, by Sir Peter Lely. 



