214 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



PUBLICATIONS FUND 



During the fiscal year 1963 the Publications Fund placed on sale 

 four new books : Treasures from, the National Gallery of Art, edited 

 by Huntington Cairns and John Walker, the third in a series of large 

 books containing 85 color reproductions of paintings in the National 

 Gallery of Art collection; The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of 

 Art by Sigf ried Giedion, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts 

 for 1957 ; Prints compiled by Carl Zigrosser, with an introduction by 

 Lessing J. Rosenwald; and One Hundred and Otie Masterpieces of 

 American Primitive Painting, with preface by John Walker. An 

 English translation of Dr. Perry B. Cott's section on the National 

 Gallery of Art in Paintings of the World'^s Great Galleries was made 

 available, together with five new catalogs of temporary exhibitions: 

 Water Colors hy Winslow Homer from the Collection of Mrs. Charles 

 R. Henschel; American Prints Today, 1962; Old Master Drawings 

 from Chatsworth; John Gadshy Chapman — American Painter and 

 Illustrator; and Jacques C allot — A Selection of Prints from the Col- 

 lections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald. 



In addition to 6 new collotype reproductions of paintings by Inness, 

 Renoir, Bellotto, Vlaminck, and Feti, the Publications Fund intro- 

 duced 40 color reproductions in a new format, 19 by 25 inches in size. 

 Thirty-seven new postcards and 44 new 11- by 14-inch subjects were 

 published, bringing the total subjects available in these formats to 

 152 and 201, respectively. 



EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 



The program of the Educational Department was carried out under 

 the direction of Dr. Raymond S. Stites and his staff. The staff 

 lectured and conducted tours on works of art in the Gallery's col- 

 lections. 



Attendance for the general tours, tours of the week, and picture-of- 

 the-week talks amounted to 38,846. The attendance at the Sunday 

 afternoon lectures in the auditorium totaled 14,209. 



Special tours, lectures, and conferences were arranged for a total 

 of 16,567 persons. The^e special appointments were made for Gov- 

 ernment agency groups, and at the request of congressional offices, 

 for educators, foreign students, club and study groups, religious orga- 

 nizations, conventions, and women's organizations. These special serv- 

 ices were also given to school groups from many parts of the country. 



The program of training volunteer docents continued and special 

 instruction was given to approximately 130 volunteers from the Junior 

 League of Washington and the American Association of University 

 Women. By special arrangement with the public and parochial 



