212 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



A Selection of Christmas Prints. From the National Gallery of Art collections. 

 December 14, 1962, through February 26, 1963. 



John Oadshy Chapman, A Retrospective Exhihition. From 21 public collections 

 and private lenders. December 16, 1962, through January 13, 1963. 



Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Lent to the President of the United States 

 and the Ajnerican people by the Government of the French Republic. Janu- 

 ary 8 through February 3, 1963. 



Jacques Callot: A Selection of Prints from the Collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld 

 and Lessing J. Rosenwald. February 3 through March 17, 1963. 



Hercules and the Hydra and Hei'cules and Antaeus by Antonio del PoUaiuolo. 

 Lent by the Republic of Italy. February 4 through February 10, 1963. 



Industry and Ingenuity. From the Index of American Design. February 27 

 through May 2, 1963. 



Landscape Prints. From the Rosenwald Collection. May 2, 1963, to continue 

 into the next fiscal year. 



Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt. From the Rosenwald Collection. June 

 13, 1963, to continue into the next fiscal year. 



Exhibitions of recent accessions. "Oysters" by Manet, continued from previous 

 fiscal year through August 9, 1962; "Street in Venice" by Sargent, August 10 

 through September 13, 1962; "Duke of Wellington" by Goya, November 19 

 through December 27, 1962 ; "The Lute Player" by Gentileschi, April 5 through 

 May 13, 1963 ; "Joris W. Vezeler" and "Margaretha Boghe, Wife of Joris W. 

 Vezeler" by Joos van Cleve, June 21, 1963, to continue into the next fiscal year. 



TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 



Special exhibitions of graphic arts from the National Gallery of 

 Art collections were circulated during the fiscal year to 29 museums, 

 universities, schools, and art centers in the United States and abroad. 



Index of American Design. — Forty-eight exhibitions (2,104 plates) of material 

 from the Index were circulated to 18 States, the District of Columbia, and to 

 Bath, England. 



CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES 



Under the direction of Dr. Perry B. Cott, chief curator, the cura- 

 torial department accessioned 53 gifts to the Gallery during the fiscal 

 year 19G3. Advice was given with respect to 1,716 works of art 

 brought to the Gallery for expert opinion and 25 visits to collections 

 were made by members of the staff in connection with offers of gifts. 

 About 4,350 inquiries, many of them requiring research, were answered 

 verbally and by letter. 



Dr. Hereward Lester Cooke, curator of painting, acted as consultant 

 to National Aeronautics and Space Administration with duties of 

 organizing and supervising commissions to artists for paintings of 

 themes relating to the space program. 



Dr. Katharine Shepard, assistant curator of graphic arts, gave a 

 graduate course in "Ancient Sculpture" the first semester and a grad- 

 uate course in "Ancient Painting" the second semester, at Catholic 

 University, during the past academic year. 



