SECRETARY'S REPORT 219 



ATTENDANCE 



There were 1,236,155 visitors to the Gallery during fiscal year 1964. 

 The attendance for the previous fiscal year was higher by 557,345 

 visitors. Tliis resulted from the large number of people who came to 

 see the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci when it was on exhibition at 

 the National Gallery of Art for 27 days in fiscal year 1963. The daily 

 average number of visitors during the past fiscal year was 3,415. This 

 is the largest average in the past 10 years, except those years in which 

 occurred the unusually popular exliibitions of the Mona Lisa and the 

 Tutankliamen Treasures. 



ACCESSIONS 



There were 5,002 accessions by the National Galleiy of Art as gifts, 

 loans, or deposits during the fiscal year, an increase of 3,796 over the 

 previous year. 



GIFTS 



During the year the following gifts or bequests were accepted by the 

 Board of Trustees : 



PAINTINGS 



BonoT Artist Title 



Avalon Foundation, New Cropsey Autumn on the Hudson River. 



York, N.Y. 



Do Doughty Fanciful Landscape. 



John W. Beatty, Jr., Pitts- Homer Marshy Scene with Man in 



burgh, Pa. Boat. 



National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Poussin The Assumption of the Virgin. 



Mellon Bruce Fund. 



Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va. Canaletto Landscape Capriccio with Col- 

 umn. 



Do do Landscape Capriccio with 



Palace. 



Do Devis Conversation Piece, Ashdon 



House. 



Do do Lord Brand of Hurndall Park. 



National Gallery of Art, Rubens Tiberius and Agrippina. 



Andrew Mellon Fund. 



National Gallery of Art, Copley Watson and the Shark. 



Adolph Caspar Miller 

 Fund. 



