REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 9 



was authorized for this purpose, and that amount was provided in 

 the Second Deficiency Act approved June 25, 1938. The members 

 of the Commission are: 



C. G. Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 



Edward Bruce, Chief of the Section of Fine Arts in the Treasury Depart- 

 ment ; 



Frederic A. Delano, Chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning 

 Commission ; 



Gilmore D. Clarke, Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts; 



Hon. Alben W. Barkley, chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, 

 United States Senate; 



Hon. Kent E. Keller, chairman of the Committee on the Library, House of 

 Representatives ; 



Charles L. Borie, Jr., Chairman of the Smithsonian Art Commission. 



The Commission appointed as its professional adviser, Joseph 

 Hudnut, professor of architecture in Harvard University, and as its 

 technical adviser, Thomas Mabry, executive director of the Museum 

 of Modern Art in New York City. The duty of these two men was 

 to prepare a program of the proposed competition to select an archi- 

 tect for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art and to conduct the competi- 

 tion itself. 



A jury of award was set up by the Commission, consisting of 

 Frederic A. Delano, Chairman, and four prominent architects — John 

 A. Holabird, of Chicago; Walter Gropius, of Cambridge; George 

 Howe, of Philadelphia ; and Henry R. Shepley, of Boston. The pro- 

 gram of competition was issued January 21, 1939, all drawings for 

 the preliminary competition to be submitted by April 29. On May 

 13 the Commission met at the Smithsonian Institution to receive no- 

 tice of the awards in the preliminary competition. The 10 best 

 designs, making those submitting them eligible for the final compe- 

 tition, were those of the following: 



Paul P. Cret, Philadelphia; 



Percival Goodman, New York City; 



Phillip L. Goodwin, New York City ; 



Harry F. Manning, Chicago; 



James A. Mitchell, Pittsburgh ; 



Eliot F. Noyes, Cambridge; 



G. Holmes Perkins, Cambridge; 



Peter and Stubbins, Boston; 



Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Birmingham, Mich. ; 



Edward D. Stone, New York City. 



Honorable mention was awarded to 16 other competitors. 



The 10 prize winners entered the final competition, and on June 29, 

 1939, the Commission met again at the offices of Mr. Bruce in the 

 Procurement Division of the Treasury Department to receive the 

 final report of the jury of award. The first prize of $7,500 was 



