REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



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thus engaged Mr. Thomas was fortunate in having sittings for a por- 

 trait bust by Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador to the United 

 States. This work met witli gratifying approval and a replica in 

 plaster Avas presented by the sculptor to the Smithsonian Institution 

 at a dinner given in honor of Sir Esme by the Washington Branch 

 of the English-Speaking Union, on May 13. Presentation was 

 made by the presiding officer of the occasion, and it was accepted by 

 Doctor Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, with 

 appropriate words of appreciation. 



A collection of portraits in oil and various studies in other tecli- 

 nique.s by Leo Katz of Vienna, Austria, was shoAvn in the two north 

 rooms of the gallery January 10 to February 15, and the exhibit, 

 comprising 35 items, proved of very special interest to the people of 

 Washington. 



The gallery Avas fortunate in being permitted to place on vieAv 

 from December 16 to February 15 a collection of art works in bronze 

 and terra cotta, nine in number, mainly busts of important person- 

 ages, by Mrs. Nancy Cox-lMcCormack. These Avere mounted on 

 appropriate pedestals in the south room of the gallery and included 

 busts of Benito Mussolini, Italian premier, in black marble, and 

 Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to Italy, in bronze. 



A collection of 72 water-color paintings of the scenery of the 

 national parks of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast regions, bj' 

 Gunnar Widforss, Avas exhibited in the middle room of the gallery 

 December 10 to January 10. These paintings Avere vivid and highly 

 realistic presentations of many remarkable subjects and attracted 

 much favorable attention. 



THE IIEXIIY AVARD KANGER FUND 



As the paintings purchased during the year by the council of the 

 National Academy of Design from the fund provided by the Henry 

 Ward Ranger bequest are, under certain conditions, prospectiA^e 

 additions to the national collection, the list, including the names of 

 the institutions to Avhich they have been assigned, is given here : 



Title 



42. The Other Shore 



43. Nancy _ 



44. Their Son 



4,5. The Wood Cart 



46. A Reading 



47. Dawn 



48. The Prodigal Son 



49. Storm Birds 



50. Uelen 



51. Across the Valley". .. . 



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Artist 



Date of 

 purchase 



Assignment 



The Newark Museum Association, 



Newark, N. J. 

 The Denver Art Museum, Denver, 



Colo. 

 The Art Club of Erie, Erie, Pa. 



