48 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN ESTSTITUTIGN, 1951 



by embassies and collectors. The technique of throwing on the potter's wheel 

 was demonstrated. A catalog was privately printed. 



August 6 through 2S, iflJO.— Exhibition of 31 pieces of sculpture by the Wash- 

 ington Sculptors Group. Gallery talks and demonstrations were given. 



Septetnher 8 through 2-//, 1950. — Exhibition of Pictorial Art of the American 

 luilian : A Living Tradition, from the collections of the Philbrook Art Center and 

 the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum, con- 

 sisting of 158 paintings, drawings, and other examples of graphic art. 



October 8 through 29, 1950.— The Eighth Annual Exhibition of The Artists' 

 Guild of Washington, consisting of 86 oils and sculpture. A catalog was 

 privately printed. 



November 5 through 26, 1950. — The Thirteenth Metropolitan State Art Contest, 

 held under the auspices of the District of Columbia Chapter, American Artists 

 Professional League, assisted by the Entre Nous Club, consisting of 333 paintings, 

 sculpture, prints, ceramics, and metalcraft. A catalog was privately printed. 



December 10 through 29, lD50.~The Fifty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the 

 Washington Water Color Club, consisting of 174 water colors, etchings, and 

 drawings. A catalog was privately printed. 



February 8 through 27, 1951. — The Fifty-ninth Annual Exhibition of the Society 

 of Washin;;ton Artists, consisting of 47 paintings and 7 pieces of sculpture. A 

 catalog was privately printed. 



February 23, 1951. — The opening of the Albert Pinkham Ryder Room of the 

 John Gellatly Collection. 



March 8 through 28, 1951. — Memorial Exhibition of 84 oil paintings and 

 pastels by Alice Pike Barney (1860-1931). A catalog was published. 



March 9 through 29, 1951. — Exhibition of 48 paintings and sculpture by artista 

 from El Salvador, sponsored by the Ambassador of El Salvador to the United 

 States, Dr. Hector David Castro, under the auspices of the Pan American Union. 

 A catalog was privately printed. 



April 18, 1951. — The opening of an exhibition of the Adams-Clement Collection 

 given by the late Mary Louisa Adams Clement to the National Collection of 

 Fine Arts and the Department of History of the United States National Museum, 

 in the west hall of the Arts and Industries Building. 



May 6 through 30, 1951.— The Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of The Miniature 

 Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, D. C, consisting of 

 180 examples. A catalog was privately printed. 



May 11 through July 1951.— A Centennial Anniversary Exhibition of Paintings 

 by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, N. A. (18.51-1938). Twenty paintings were shown 

 in the Natural History Building and twenty-one in the Freer Gallery of Art. 

 A list was mimeographed. 



June 7 through 27, 1951.— The Second Annual Exhibition of the Florida Artist 

 Group, consisting of 24 paintings. A catalog was privately printed. 



June 8 through 26, 1951.— An exhibition of 147 Swiss posters, held under the 

 patronage of His Excellency Charles Bruggmann, Minister of Switzerland, and 

 the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. A catalog was privately 

 printed. 



Kespectfully submitted. 



Thomas M. Beggs, Director. 

 Dr. A. Wetmore, 



Seci'etary, Smithsonian Institution. 



