Report on the National Gallery of Art 



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

 the 26th annual report of the National Gallery of Art, for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1963. This report is made pursuant to the pro- 

 visions of section 5(d) of Public Resolution No. 14, 75th Congress, 

 1st session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51) . 



ORGANIZATION 



The statutory members of the Board of Trustees of the National 

 Gallery of Art are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secre- 

 tary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. The three general trustees con- 

 tinuing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1963, were Paul 

 Mellon, John Hay Wliitney, and John N. Irwin II. Chester Dale, 

 who had been a general trustee since 1943 and president since 1955, 

 died on December 16, 1962. Rush H. Kress, who had been a general 

 trustee smce 1955, died on March 22, 1963. On January 25, 1963, Paul 

 Mellon was elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as president of 

 the Gallery and Jolin Hay Wliitney was elected vice president. 



The executive officers of the Gallery as of June 30, 1963, were as 

 follows : 



Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the John Walker, Director. 



United States, Chairman. Ernest R. Feidler, Administrator. 



Paul Mellon, President. Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 



John Hay Whitney, Vice President. Perry B. Cott, Chief Curator. 

 Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treasurer. 



The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the 

 annual meeting on May 2, 1963, were as f ollow^s : 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Chief Justice of the United States, John Hay Whitney. 

 Earl Warren, Chairman. John N. Irwin II. 



Paul Mellon, Vice Chairman. 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Leonard Carmichael. 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 



Secretary of the Treasury, C. Doug- John Hay Whitney, 

 las Dillon, Chairman. John N. Irwin II. 



Paul Mellon. 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Leonard Carmichael. 



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