Report on the National Gallery of Art 



Sir : I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, 

 the twenty-third annual report of the National Gallery of Art, for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1960. This report is made pursuant to 

 the provisions of section 5(d) of Public Eesolution No. 14, Seventy- 

 fifth Congress, first session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51). 



ORGANIZATION 



The statutory members of the Board of Trustees of the National 

 Gallery of Art are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary 

 of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. The five general trustees con- 

 tinuing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1960, were 

 Duncan Phillips, Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Chester Dale, Paul Mellon, 

 and Rush H. Kress. On May 5, 1960, Chester Dale was reelected by 

 the Board of Trustees to serve as President of the Gallery and Ferdi- 

 nand Lammot Belin was reelected Vice President. 



The executive officers of the Gallery as of June 30, 1960, are as 

 follows : 



Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treas- Ernest R. Feidler, Administrator. 



urer. Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 



John Walker, Director. Perry E. Cott, Cliief Curator. 



The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the 

 annual meeting on May 5, 1960, were as follows : 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



Warren, Chairman. tlon, Leonard Carmichael. 



Ferdinand Lammot BeUn. Paul Mellon. 

 Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 



Secretary of the Treasury, Robert B. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



Anderson, Chairman. tion, Leonard Carmichael. 



Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Paul Mellon. 

 Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. 



ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE 



Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Chairman. Paul Mellon. 

 Duncan Phillips. John Walker. 



Chester Dale. 



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