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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



1959 



July 23-25. 



September 21- 

 December 11. 



October 13-14. 

 October 16-17. 

 November 13-17. 



December 2. 



December 15-21. 



1960 

 January 5-7. 

 January 6-7. 



January 11. 



tion of bronzes, tapestries, Royal portraits and objects of 

 art, and to attend at the Drottniugholm Palace Theatre, 

 a special performance of the eighteenth-century comic 

 opera "II Maestro." Visits were made by the group to 

 Skokloster Castle and to Uppsala. In London Mr. Gettens 

 spent several days visiting laboratories and collections In 

 the Courtauld Institute of Art, the National Gallery, the 

 British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the 

 Tate Gallery. Of special interest was a visit to Appleby 

 in Westmorland to discuss business matters with the 

 printer of IIC Abstracts. Other visits included: Brussels, 

 the world-famed Institut du Patrimoine Artistique de 

 Belgique; in Zurich, the newly established Laboratory of 

 the Swiss National Museum ; in Naples, the Museo e Gal- 

 lerie Nazionali di Capodimonte and the ruins of Pompeii. 

 Return was via London where more museum visits and 

 professional contacts were made. 



Dr. Stern, in Chicago, examined the following objects for 

 possible inclusion in the Asia Society Museum Inaugural 

 Show : 56 Japanese and Korean objects at the Chicago 

 Art Institute; 30 Chinese and Japanese objects belonging 

 to a private collection; 100 Chinese and Korean objects in 

 the Junkung Collection; 24 Chinese jades and paintings 

 that belong to the Chicago Museum of Natural History; 

 and 16 Japanese and Chinese objects belonging to dealers. 



Dr. Ettinghausen, in Europe and the Near East, attended 

 the First International Congress on Turkish Art in An- 

 kara, Turkey, visited Israel, England, France, Germany, 

 Austria, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Switzerland, Holland, and 

 Belgium. While in Berlin, he attended the Festschrift 

 presentation in honor of Prof. Ernst Kiihnel. 



Dr. Stern, in Toronto, Canada, examined objects at the 

 Royal Ontario Museum, Hart House, Lee Collection, Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, and the Canadian Customs Service. 



Dr. Stern, in New York City, examined objects at Metro- 

 politan Museum, New York Public Library, and saw the 

 Bonnier Exhibition. 



Mr. Gettens examined 15 Egyptian objects (bronzes) in 

 Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland ; in New York 

 attended a meeting of Advisory Council for a Center for 

 Teaching and Research in Conservation (Institute of Fine 

 Arts, New York University). 



Mr. Gettens, in New York City, examined bronze objects at 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



Dr. Stern, in New York City, examined objects in museums, 

 galleries, and private collections. 



Dr. Stern examined objects at dealers in New York City. 

 Dr. Stern, in New York City, attended an exhibition of 



Japanese art at Asia House, sponsored by Japan Society. 

 Dr. Ettinghausen, in Baltimore, visited the Persian Art 



Exhibition at Walters Art Gallery. 



