200 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



Dr. H. Lester Cooke, curator of painting, wrote an article entitled 

 "Great Masters of Impressionist Art : the Dale Collection," National 

 Geographic Magazine^ May 1961. He was also coauthor of "Roman 

 Drawings at Windsor Castle," Phaidon Press, 1960, and wrote articles 

 for America Illustrated. 



Dr. Katharine Shepard, assistant curator of graphic arts, reviewed 

 a book for the American Journal of Archaeology^ April 1961. 



Miss Anna M. Voris, museum curator, wrote an article on "Art 

 Galleries" for the American Oxford Encyclopedia. 



During the fiscal year 1961 the Publications Fund published the 

 remaining two in a series of ten booklets. Schools of Painting in the 

 National Gallery of Art, and began the sale of boxed sets in slipcases. 

 Two new catalogs were published, The Civil War and Exhibition of 

 the Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, as well as a new edition 

 of Tioentieth Century Painting from the Chester Dale Collection. 

 New material placed on sale by the Publications Fund included 

 "Horace Walpole" by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, the 1960 A. W. Mellon 

 Lecturer in the Fine Arts; "The Revolution," a recording by Richard 

 Bales of the Gallery staff; "Ratapoil," a sculpture reproduction of a 

 work by Daumier in the Rosenwald Collection; "Roman Drawings at 

 Windsor Castle" by Hereward Lester Cooke of the Gallery staff and 

 Sir Anthony Blunt ; and two new collotype reproductions of portraits 

 by Roberti in the Kress Collection. 



Five new color and eight new monotone postcards and an 11 x 14" 

 reproduction of the Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis were 

 published. The Christmas card selection included seven new color 

 and four new black-and-white subjects. 



In connection with the exhibition of Chinese Art Treasures, a 

 special sales area was set up in the central lobby at which fifty 2 x 2" 

 slides published by the Fund were sold, as well as postcards, small and 

 large prints, scrolls, books, and the exhibition catalog. 



EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 



The program of the Educational Office was carried out under the 

 direction of Dr. Raymond S. Stites, curator in charge of educational 

 work, and his staff. The staff lectured and conducted tours on the 

 works of art in the Gallery's collection. 



Attendance for the General Tours, Tours of the Week, and Picture 

 of the Week talks, totaled 38,839, and that of the auditorium lectures 

 on Sunday afternoons totaled 12,433 pereons. 



Special lectures, tours, and conferences were arranged for 376 groups 

 and individuals, and the total number of persons served in this man- 

 ner was 14,088. These included groups of visitors from Government 

 agencies, club and study groups, foreign students, religious organiza- 



