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to the Gallery for expert opinion and 25 visits to collections were 

 made by members of the staff in connection with offers of gifts. 

 About 3,700 inquiries, many of them requiring research, were answered 

 verbally and by letter. 



Dr. Cott addressed the North Carolina State Art Society on the 

 occasion of the opening of the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the North 

 Carolina Museum of Art at Raleigh. 



Miss Elizabeth ISIongan, curator of graphic arts, lectured on 

 Graphic Arts at Notre Dame University; the Renaissance Society, 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; and the Art Institute of Chicago. 



Dr. H. Lester Cooke, curator of painting, lectured at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and at Georgetown University. 



Dr. Kathcrine Shepard, assistant curator of graphic arts, served 

 again as secretary of the Washington Society of the Archaeological 

 Institute of America. She gave a graduate course in Ancient Sculp- 

 ture the first semester and a graduate course in Ancient Painting the 

 second semester, at Catholic University. 



John Pancoast, registrar, gave a graduate seminar in Italian Ren- 

 aissance Sculpture at Catholic University. 



The Richter Archives received and cataloged over 180 photographs 

 on exchange from museums here and abroad, 2,178 photographs were 

 purchased, and about 5,000 reproductions have been added to the 

 Richter Archives. 



RESTORATION 



Francis Sullivan, resident restorer of the Gallery, made regular 

 and systematic inspection of all works of art in the Gallery and 

 periodically removed dust and bloom as required. He relined 12 

 paintings and gave special treatment to 36. Sixteen paintings were 

 X-rayed as an aid in research. Mr. Sullivan supervised the construc- 

 tion of a vacuum hot-table and used it as an adjunct in the relining 

 of paintings. Experiments were continued with the application of 

 27H and other synthetic varnishes developed by the National Gallery 

 of Art Fellowship at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa. Proofs of all color reproductions of Gallery paint- 

 ings were checked and approved, and technical advice on the conserva- 

 tion of paintings was furnished to the public upon request. 



PUBLICATIONS 



"William P. Campbell, assistant chief curator, wrote the introduc- 

 tion and catalog notes for the catalog of the exhibition The Civil War, 

 A Oentennial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings. 



Miss Elizabeth Mongan, curator of graphic arts, wrote introduc- 

 tions for two exhibition catalogs. 



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