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ANNUAL, EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



live additions to the National Gallery collections, are as follows, 

 including the names of the Institutions to which they have been 

 assigned : 



The paintings purchased during former years and unassigned at 

 the close of the last fiscal year (1929) have been subsequently 

 assigned as follows: 



68. Mile. Maria Safanoff, by Irving R. Wiles, N. A.; to Mount Holyoke 

 College, South Hadley, Mass. 



71. The Harvest Moon, by Charles Melville Dewey, N. A.; to the Fine Arts 

 Society of San Diego, San Diego, Calif. 



76. Fishing Fleet, by Malcolm Humphreys; to Davenport Municipal Art 

 Gallery, Davenport, Iowa. 



COPTING PAINTINGS 



While the gallery has no facilities for the accommodation for 

 artists desiring to copy works of art in its collections, permission is 

 given in special cases. During the present fiscal year two artists, 

 both of Washington, D. C, were permitted to copy portraits in the 

 Harriet Lane Johnston collection : Mrs. Charles H. L. Johnston 

 (Birdie Abbott Johnston) copied the portrait of Lady Hammond 

 by Sir Joshua Rej^nolds, and Miss Angelica Frances Small copied 

 the portrait of Miss Kirkpatrick by George Romney. 



LIBRARY 



The gallery library continued to increase by gift, purchase, and 

 subscription in volumes, pamphlets, periodicals, etc., Mr. J. Town- 

 send Russell, jr., being the principal benefactor of the year. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Holmes, "W. H. Report on the National Gallery of Art for the year ending 



June 30, 1029. Appendix 2, report of the secretary of the Smithsonian 



Institution for the year ending June 30, 1929, pp. 1-9. 

 Lodge, J. E. Report on the Freer Gallery of Art for the year ending June 



30, 1929. Appendix 3, report of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 



for the year ending June 30, 1929, pp. 10-16. 



