APPENDIX 3 



Report on the National Collection of Fine Arts 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activ- 

 ities of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1951 : 



THE SMriHSONIAN AET COMMISSION 



The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Com- 

 mission was held in the Regents' Room of the Smithsonian Building 

 on Tuesday, December 5, 1950. The members present were: Paul 

 Manship, chairman; Alexander Wetmore, secretary (member, ex of- 

 ficio) ; John Nicholas Brown, George H. Edgell, David E. Finley, 

 Gilmore D. Clarke, Archibald G. Wenley, Lloyd Goodrich, John 

 Taylor Arms, Robert Woods Bliss, and George Hewitt Myers. John 

 E. Graf, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Thomas M. 

 Beggs, Director, National Collection of Fine Ai'ts, and Paul V. 

 Gardner, curator of ceramics, National Collection of Fine Arts, were 

 also present. 



The resignations of William T. Aldrich and Gifford Beal as mem- 

 bers of the Commission were submitted and accepted with regret. 

 The Comm.ission recommended to the Board of Regents Lawrence 

 Grant White to succeed Mr. Aldrich, and Andrew Wyetli to succeed 

 Mr. Beal. The Commission recommended the reelection of John 

 Taylor Arms and Gilmore D. Clarke for the usual 4-year period. 

 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Paul 

 Manship, chairman; Robert Woods Bliss, vice chairman, and Dr. 

 Alexander Wetmore, secretary. The following were elected mem- 

 bers of the executive committee for the ensuing year : David E. Finley, 

 chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, Gilmore D. Clarke, and George 

 Hewitt Myers. Paul Manship, as chairman of the Commission, and 

 Dr. Alexander Wetmore, as secretary of the Commission, are ex- 

 officio members of the executive committee. 



Mr. Beggs reported that the reorganization of the permanent col- 

 lection progressed steadily during the year as further work of in- 

 dividual artists and various types of artistic work were assembled. 

 Seventeen paintings by Albert Pinkham Ryder, N. A. (1847-1917), 

 have been installed in a gallery to be known as the Ryder Room of 

 the Gellatly Collection. Meissen, Worcester, and Sevres porcelains 



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