112 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



ATTENDANCE 



The Gallery was open to the public from 9 to 4:30 every day 

 except Cliristmas Day. The total number of visitors to come in the 

 main entrance was 120,077. The highest monthly attendance was in 

 August, 16,183. 



There were 2,682 visitors who came to the Gallery offices for various 

 purposes — for general information, to submit objects for examination, 

 to consult staff members, to take photographs or sketch in the galleries, 

 to use the library, to examine objects in storage, etc. 



AUDITORIUM 



The series of illustrated lectures was continued as follows : 



1959 



October 20. Robert T, Paine, Museum of Fine Ajts, Boston, "Japanese 



Prints of Beauties of the Three Cities." Attendance, 

 188. 



November 10. Prof. Harald Ingholt, Yale University, "Buddhist Art of 



Gaudhara, Native and Foreign Influences." Attendance, 

 152. 

 1960 



January 13. Prof, W. Norman Brown, University of Pennsylvania, 



"Vasanta Vilasa, an Illustrated Spring Poem in Old Gu- 

 jarati." Attendance, 85. 



February 9. Dr. Sherman E. Lee, Cleveland Museum of Art, "Llaag 



Ch'ing-piao : Silent Collector, Eloquent Collection." At- 

 tendance, 159. 



March 8. Prof. S. Howard Hansford, University of London, "Some 



Problems of Chinese Jades and Bronzes." Attendance, 

 132. 



April 12. Prof. George H. Forsyth, Jr., University of Michigan, "By- 



zantine Art at tlie Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. 

 Sinai." Attendance, 234. 



On May 3 ceremonies were held in the Freer Auditorium for the 

 second presentation of the Charles Lang Freer Medal to the Near 

 Eastern scholar. Prof. Ernst Kiihnel of Berlin, Germany, "for dis- 

 tinguished contribution to the knowledge and understanding of 

 Oriental civilizations as reflected in their arts." On the platform 

 were Minister Franz Krapf, representing the Ambassador of Ger- 

 many, His Excellency the Ambassador of Iran, Ardeshir Zahedi, in 

 honor of the IVth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archae- 

 ology meeting in Washington, Dr. Richard Ettinghausen represent- 

 ing the Freer Galley of Art, and Dr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, who made the presentation. Professor 

 Kiihnel responded with an address on the growth of mterest in 

 collections of Near Eastern art. This was followed by a reception 

 in Gallery XVII. Attendance, 325. 



