APPENDIX 2 

 REPORT ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



Sm: Pursuant to the provisions of section 5 (d) of Public Resolu- 

 tion No. 14, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved March 24, 1937, I have 

 the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Na- 

 tional Gallery of Art, the second annual report of the Board covering 

 its operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939. 



Under the aforementioned joint resolution, Congress appropriated 

 to the Smithsonian Institution the area bounded by Seventh Street, 

 Constitution Avenue, Fourth Street, and North Mall Drive (now 

 IMadison Drive) Northwest, in the District of Columbia, as a site 

 for a National Gallery of Art; authorized the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion to permit The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 

 a public charitable trust, established by the late Hon. Andrew W. 

 Mellon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., to construct thereon a building to be 

 designated the "National Gallery of Art" ; and created, in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, a bureau to be directed by a board to be known 

 as the "Trustees of the National Gallery of Art," charged with the 

 maintenance and administration of the National Gallery of Art. 

 The Board is comprised of the Chief Justice of the United States, 

 the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution, ex officio, and five General 

 Trustees. The General Trustees first taking office, appointed on 

 June 24, 1937, by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, were : the late Andrew W. Mellon, David K. E. Bruce, Duncan 

 Phillips, the late S. Parker Gilbert, and Donald D. Shepard. 



The late Andrew W. Mellon, the donor of the first great art col- 

 lection given to the Gallery, as well as the funds for the erection of 

 the Gallery building, died on August 26, 1937. Also, the late S. 

 Parker Gilbert died on February 23, 1938. In August 1938 Paul 

 Mellon was elected to serve the unexpired term of his father, the 

 late Andrew W. Mellon; and Ferdinand Lammot Belin was elected 

 to serve the unexpired term of the late S. Parker Gilbert. The fol- 

 lowing resolutions were adopted by the Board at its annual meeting 

 held on February 13, 1939 : 



That the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art, in recording the 

 death on August 26, 1937, of Andrew William Mellon, founder of this Gallery 

 and a memher of this Board, express their profound sorrow at the loss of one 

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