Report on the National Collection 

 of Fine Arts 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1960. 



SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 



The 37th annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was 

 held in Washington on Tuesday, December 1, 1959. Members present 

 were Paul Manship, chairman; Kobert Woods Bliss, vice chairman; 

 Leonard Carmichael, secretary; Gilmore D. Clarke, David E. Finley, 

 Lloyd Goodrich, Walker Hancock, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Ogden I^I. 

 Pleissner, Charles H. Sawyer, Stow Wengeroth, and Andrew Wyeth. 

 James C. Bradley, Assistant to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and Thomas M. Beggs, Director, National Collection of 

 Fine Arts, were also present. 



The Commission recommended reappointment of Lloyd Goodrich, 

 Walker Hancock, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., and Douglas W. Orr for 

 the usual 4-year period. 



The following officers were reelected for the ensuing year: Paul 

 Manship, chairman ; Robert Woods Bliss, vice chairman ; and Leonard 

 Carmichael, secretary. 



The following were reelected members of the executive committee 

 for the ensuing year: David E. Finley, chairman; Robert Woods 

 Bliss, Gilmore D. Clarke, Archibald G. Wenley, with Paul Manship 

 and Leonard Carmichael ex officio. 



Mr. Clarke reported that the subcommittee appointed to advise in 

 the development of plans for housing the National Collection of Fine 

 Arts in the Old Patent Office Building consisted of Thomas M. Beggs, 

 Gilmore D. Clarke (chairman). Walker Hancock, Wilmarth S. Lewis, 

 Douglas W. Orr, and Ogden M. Pleissner, with Leonard Carmichael 

 and Paul Manship, ex officio. At a meeting held October 12, 1959, 

 it was pointed out that the building might be transferred in 1963 or 

 1964, and would be expected to house the National Collection of Fine 

 Arts and a national portrait collection as separate units. Following 

 a tour of the building, it was concluded that it could be adapted to 



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