APPENDIX 2 

 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



Sir : I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trus- 

 tees of the National Gallery of Art, the third annual report of the 

 Board covering its operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1940. 

 Such report is bemg made pursuant to the provisions of the act of 

 March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution 

 of April 13, 1939 (Pub. Res. No. 9, 76th Cong.). 



Under the act of March 24, 1937, Congress created, in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, a bureau to be directed by a board to be known 

 as the "Trustees of the National Gallery of Art," charged with the 

 maintenance and administration of the National Gallery of Art. 



In addition. Congress appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution 

 the area bounded by Seventh Street, Constitution Avenue, Fourth 

 Street, and North Mall Drive (now Madison Drive) Northwest, in 

 the District of Columbia, as a site for a National Gallery of Art and 

 authorized the Smithsonian Institution to permit The A. W. Mellon 

 Educational and Charitable Trust, a public charitable trust, estab- 

 lished by the late Hon. Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., to 

 construct thereon a building to be designated the "National Gallery 

 of Art." Further, the act authorizes the Board to accept, for the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and to hold and administer gifts, bequests 

 and devises of money, securities, or other property for the benefit 

 of the National Gallery of Art. To date two great collections of out- 

 standing works of art have been received by the Trustees of the 

 Gallery ; namely, the Mellon Collection and the Samuel H. Kress Col- 

 lection, which will be housed and exhibited in the Gallery building 

 now being constructed in Washington. Under the creating act, the 

 United States is pledged to provide such funds as may be necessary 

 for the upkeep of the National Gallery of Art and the administrative 

 expenses and costs of operation thereof, including the protection and 

 care of the works of art so that the Gallery shall at all times be prop- 

 erly maintained and the works of art exhibited regularly to the general 

 public. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 



The statutory members of the Board are the Chief Justice of the 

 United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 

 and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ex oflficio, and five 



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