102 ANTSrUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



The renovation of the Natural History Building and the removal 

 and rehanging of between 300 and 400 other items have required relo- 

 cation of storage involving packing and shipping large canvases. 

 This has been planned and removal operations accomplished with the 

 aid of the buildings management department of the Institution. That 

 department has also given the NCFA generous shop assistance in mov- 

 ing the A. P. Barney Lending Collection to new storage and has pro- 

 vided excellent cooperation, often at short notice, in the installation of 

 foyer exhibits, such as Okinawa : Textiles and Traditions. The assist- 

 ance of Mr. and Mrs. Istvan P. Pf eiffer was helpful in completing this 

 special show. Keyes Porter has contracted to cross-index accessions 

 and otherwise amplify the usefulness of cataloged information. Until 

 illness prevented, George C. Groce was engaged in a study of the col- 

 lections to determine most essential needs in future augmentation. 

 The staff inventoried Barney Collection pictures on loan to Federal 

 agencies, noting condition and obtaining information essential to the 

 care of the collection. 



In addition to the approximately 20,000 requests for information 

 received by mail and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office 

 numbered 1,600. In all, 189 works of art were examined by the di- 

 rector and curator. 



Special catalogs were published for the following traveling exhibi- 

 tions : Tutankhamun's Treasures ; Tiepolo Drawings ; Belgian Draw- 

 ings ; and Drawings by Sculptors. Informative folders were printed 

 for traveling shows in the following categories : Natural History and 

 Science ; Oriental Art Exhibitions ; History Exhibitions ; Photography 

 Exhibitions; and Children's Art Exhibitions. A special catalog of 

 Traveling Exhibitions for 1962-63 was also published. 



Contracts were let for the relining and restoring by Harold F. Cross 

 of the following: Roses by Walter Shirlaw; Sheepyard, Moonlight, 

 by H. L. Walker; Portrait of Dr. Stejneger by Bjorn Egeli; Brother 

 and Sister by Abbott H. Thayer; Nymph ancl Water Babies at Play 

 by William Baxter Closson; Angel by Abbott H. Thayer; Autumn 

 by Bruce Crane; Rome and the Campagna by Richard Wilson; Visit 

 to the Tomb of Washington by Thomas P. Rossiter ; A Load of Brush 

 by Louis Paul Dessar; 11 paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell entitled 

 President Wilson, General George Leman, Mary Reading, Herbert 

 Hoover, Self Portrait, Mr. Frick and Daughter Helen, Mrs. Tarbell 

 as a Girl, Margery and Little Edmund, ;Marshal Foch, Roses in Blue 

 Vase, and In the Orchard; and Mrs. Elizabeth Boucher attributed to 

 John S. Copley. 



Henri G. Courtais contracted for renovation of the following paint- 

 ings : Self Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Archibald Skirving by 

 Sir Henry Raeburn ; Head of Old Man by Jose de Ribera ; Mrs. Towry 



