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1950 ; and work under the contract awarded March 10, 1950, for the 

 completion of five offices with a slide storage room in the west wing 

 on the ground floor for the Educational Office, was completed in 

 December 1950. 



A contract was entered into on July 31, 1950, for the completion of 

 five galleries in the west end of the building. It was anticipated that 

 the work on these galleries would be completed early in 1951 ; however, 

 completion has been greatly delayed because of the difficulty en- 

 countered in obtaining the quality of oak flooring called for in the 

 specifications. Private funds were made available for these purposes. 



CONSTRUCTION — STORAGE FACILITIES 



A contract was entered into on March 1, 1951, to build a storage 

 room adjacent to the Gallery building in the southeast moat. Work 

 is progressing satisfactorily, and it is expected that this project will 

 be completed by late summer. 



A contract was entered into on March 2, 1951, to build a storage 

 building and reconstruct a cottage on the site of Kandolph-Macon 

 Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. This work is also progressing 

 satisfactorily and, unless unforeseen delays occur, will be completed 

 in the late autumn of 1951. Both of these projects are being carried 

 out with private funds advanced for these purposes. 



OTHER ACTmTIES 



Forty-five Sunday evening concerts were given in the Garden 

 Courts during the fiscal year. The Eighth Annual American Music 

 Festival was held in April, featuring 22 works by American com- 

 posers. Most of the concerts were broadcast in their entirety by radio 

 station WCFM, Washington. The National Gallery Orchestra also 

 made four long-playing records for WCFM Recording Corporation, 

 recording works by Mozart, Handel, and Ives. 



The Photographic Laboratory of the Gallery produced 12,593 

 prints, 313 black-and-wliite slides, and 1,723 color slides during 

 the fiscal year, in addition to 2,110 negatives, as well as X-rays, infra- 

 red and ultraviolet photographs. 



A total of 2,298 press releases and 21,000 invitations for exhibitions 

 at the Gallery were issued during the fiscal year, while 222 permits to 

 copy paintings and 214 permits to photograph were issued. Also 

 416 releases on current weekly activities of the Gallery were sent to 

 the Washington newspapers, radio station WGMS, and the weekly 

 guidebook, "This Week in the Nation's Capital." 



During the year, a group of German leaders in the field of art and 

 other educational and cultural endeavors, toured the United States, 



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