APPENDIX 2 

 REPORT ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



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

 of the National Gallery of Art, the fourth annual report of the Board 

 covering its operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1941. 



Such report is being made pursuant to the provisions of the act of 

 March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of 

 April 13, 1939 (Pub. Res. No. 9, 76th Cong.). Under this act Con- 

 gress created, in the Smithsonian 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 Na- 

 tional Gallery of Art, appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution 

 the area bounded by Seventh Street, Constitution Avenue, Fouilh 

 Street, and North Mall Drive (now Madison Drive) Northwest, in the 

 District of Columbia, as a site for a National Gallery of Art, and 

 authorized the Smithsonian Institution to permit The A. AV. Mellon 

 Educational and Charitable Trust, a public charitable trust estab- 

 lished by the late Hon. Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., to 

 construct thereon a building to be designated the "National Gallery of 

 Art." Further, the act authorizes the Board to accept, for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and to hold and administer gifts, bequests, and 

 devises of money, securities, or other propertj^ for the benefit of the 

 National Gallery of Art ; also, under the creating act, the United States 

 is pledged to provide such funds as may be necessary for the upkeep 

 of the National Gallery of Art and the administrative expenses and 

 costs of operation thereof, including the protection and care of the 

 works of art so that the Gallery shall at all times be properly main- 

 tained and the works of art exhibited regularly to the general public, 

 free of charge. 



COMPLETION AND OCCUPATION OF THE GALLERY BUILDING 



Formal notice of the completion of the National Gallery of Art 

 project, calling for the construction of the Gallery building and the 

 landscaping of the area appropriated for the site of the National 

 Gallery of Art, in accordance with plans and specifications approved 

 by the Commission of Fine Arts, was given by the Trustees of The 

 A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust under date of No- 

 vember 30, 1940, to the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art and 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and as provided in the trust indenture 



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