Report on the National Gallery of Art 



Sir : I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, 

 the twenty-fourth annual report of the National Gallery of Art, for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1961. This report is made pursuant to 

 the provisions of section 5(d) of Public Resolution No. 14, Seventy- 

 fifth Congress, first session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51). 



ORGANIZATION 



The statutory members of the Board of Trustees of the National 

 Gallery of Art are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secre- 

 tary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. The four general trustees con- 

 tinuing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1961, were Fer- 

 dinand Lammot Belin, Chester Dale, Paul Mellon, and Rush H. Kress. 

 Duncan Phillips, a general trustee, resigned from the Board of 

 Trustees on December 1, 1960, and on May 3, 1961, John Hay Whitney 

 was elected a general trustee of the National Gallery of Art to serve 

 in that capacity for the remainder of the term expiring July 1, 1963. 

 On May 4, 1961, Chester Dale was reelected by the Board of Trustees 

 to serve as President of the Gallery and Paul Mellon was elected Vice 

 President. 



The executive officers of the Gallery as of June 30, 1961, are as 

 follows : 



Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treas- Ernest R. Feidler, Administrator. 



urer. Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 



John Walker, Director. Perry B. Cott, Chief Curator. 



The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the 

 annual meeting on May 4, 1961, were as follows : 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



Warren, Chairman. tion, Leonard Carmichael. 



Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. Paul Mellon, 



John Hay Whitney. 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 



Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



Dillon, Chairman. tion, Leonard Carmichael. 



Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. John Hay Whitney. 



Paul Mellon. 



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