Report on the National Collection 

 of Fine Arts 



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

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

 June 30, 1963 : 



SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 



The 41st annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was 

 held in Washington on Tuesday, December 3, 1963. Members present 

 were Paul Manship, chairman; Leonard Carmichael, secretary; Gil- 

 more D. Clarke, David E. Finley, Lloyd Goodrich, Walker Hancock, 

 Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Henry P. Mcllhenny, Paul Mellon, Ogden M. 

 Pleissner, Edgar P. Kichardson, Charles H. Sawyer, and Andrew 

 Wyeth. Also present were James C. Bradley, Assistant Secretary; 

 Theodore W. Taylor, Assistant to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution ; Thomas M. Beggs, Director, National Collection of Fine 

 Arts, and David W. Scott, Assistant Director. 



The Commission recommended the appointment of Page Cross to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the resignation of Douglas Orr. 



Recommendations were made for the reappointment of Lloyd Good- 

 rich, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., and Walker Hancock for the usual 4-year 

 period. 



Dr. Leonard Carmichael, who was to retire as Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution on January 31, 1964, was elected Member 

 Emeritus of the Commission. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Paul Man- 

 ship, chairman; Gilmore D. Clarke, vice chairman; and Leonard Car- 

 michael, secretary (to be succeeded by S. Dillon Ripley upon his 

 assumption of duties as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution). 



The following were elected members of the executive committee for 

 the ensuing year: David E. Finley, chairman; Gilmore D. Clarke; 

 Ogden M. Pleissner; Edgar P. Richardson; with Paul Manship and 

 Leonard Carmichael, ex officio (to be succeeded by S. Dillon Ripley 

 upon his assumption of duties as Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution). 



Dr. Carmichael reviewed the purpose of the National Collection of 

 Fine Arts for the Commission and indicated the current status of 

 the development on the proposed now gallery in the Old Patent Office 



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