40 ANNUAL. REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



expression of opinion which the Commission might agree upon, Mr. 

 Mather submitted the following resolution which the members present, 

 on motion, adopted as their opinion in the matter : 



The primary purpose of the Smithsonian Gallery of Art is worthily to house, 

 classify, and exhibit such art collections as the Smithsonian Institution now has 

 or shall have. The secondary purpose is to make an educational use of such art 

 collections through direct instruction at Washington or through loan exhibitions 

 in the United States or elsewhere. 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MYER FUND 



Three miniatures were acquired from the fund established through 

 the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, as follows : 



19. "Portrait of I. G.," by an unknown artist ; from John Schwarz, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



20. "Portrait of a Colonial Gentleman," signed Copley, 1773 ; from 

 Whitlock's Incorporated, New Haven, Conn. 



21. "Portrait of a Man," by an unknown artist; from Michael J. 

 de Sherbinin, Mount Vernon, N. Y. 



LOANS ACCEPTED 



A miniature of Mrs. Kobert Means, by Edward Greene Malbone 

 (1777-1807) was lent by J. J. Pringle, Jr., Alexandria, Va. 



A miniature of Ebenezer Martin (1791-1876) by an unknown artist, 

 was lent by Miss Alice L. Wood, Blowing Eock, N. C. 



A portrait of Mr. Justice Brandeis, by Joseph Tepper, was lent by 

 the friends of Mr. Justice Brandeis, through Paul A. Freund, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Three paintings — ^"Portrait of Woman in White," by Haggenaes, 

 "Linlithgan Bridge," by Macaulay Stevenson, and "Landscape — 

 Moonlight," by E. K. Menard — were lent by Miss A. M. Hegeman, 

 Washington, D. C. 



LOANS TO OTHER MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 



An oil painting, "Brittany Sunday," by Eugene Vail, was lent to 

 the Corcoran Gallery of Art for a memorial exhibition from January 

 6 to 28, 1940. (Returned February 1, 1940.) 



Two oil paintings, "Portrait of Stephen Decatur," by Gilbert Stuart, 

 and "Portrait of Admiral Sims," by Irving R. Wiles, were lent to the 

 United States Naval Academy for an exhibition of Masterpieces of 

 Painting and Graphic Arts relating to Naval Personages and Tradi- 

 tions from April 6 to May 15, 1940. (Returned May 20, 1940.) 



The following four paintings were lent in April 1940 to The Public 

 Library of the District of Columbia : 



