14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1932 



$7,180 less than the preceding year, and the amount was further 

 reduced by $1,260 through the impounding of the salary of one 

 laborer, who was retired. Some $16,500 of this appropriation goes 

 for the upkeep of the Freer Gallery of Art. 



THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COMMISSION 



The twelfth annual meeting of the National Gallery of Art Com- 

 mission was held at the Smithsonian Institution on December 6, 

 1932. The members present were Dr. Charles G. Abbot, ex officio, 

 Herbert Adams, Charles L. Borie, Jr., James E. Fraser, Joseph 

 H. Gest, John E. Lodge, Paul Manship, George B. McClellan, 

 Charles Moore, and Edward W. Redfield. Ruel P. Tolman, curator 

 of the division of graphic arts, and acting director of the National 

 Gallery of Art, was also present. Owing to the death of Mr. Gari 

 Melchers, chairman, Mr. Gest was elected temporary chairman, 

 and Dr. Abbot was made temporary secretary in the absence of Dr. 

 W. H. Holmes. Resolutions upon the death of Mr. Parmelee, 

 Mr. French, and Mr. Bixby were adopted. The death of Mr. Gari 

 Melchers, chairman of the Commission, on November 30, 1932, 

 was announced. The temporary chairman appointed Mr. Moore, 

 Mr. Lodge, and Dr. Abbot as a committee to draft suitable resolu- 

 tions. The resignation of Mr. Herbert L. Pratt was accepted with 

 regret, making three vacancies in the membersliip, and it was 

 resolved that the National Gallery of Art Commission recommend 

 to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution the election 

 to membership on the Commission of Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. 

 Frederick P. Keppel, and Mr. Gifford Beal. 



The Commission also recommended to the Board of Regents 

 the reelection for the succeeding term of 4 years of the following 

 members: Messrs. John E. Lodge, E. W. Redfield, and Paul Man- 

 ship. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 Mr. Joseph H. Gest, chairman; Mr. Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., 

 vice chairman (reelected), and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary. 

 The following were elected members of the executive committee for 

 the ensuing year: Messrs. Charles Moore, Herbert Adams, and 

 George B. McClellan. Mr. Joseph H. Gest, as chairman of the 

 Commission, and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, as secretary of the Com- 

 mission, are ex-olficio members. 



The subject of stained glass was discussed, and Mr. Charles L. 

 Borie, Jr., was appointed chairman of a new committee on stained 

 glass, to report at the next meeting. The Commission, acting 

 as the advisory committee, accepted the full-length portrait of 

 Jolm Gellatly, by Irving R. Wiles, N.A., and the portrait of William 

 H. Holmes, by E. Hodgson Smart. Dr. Moore called attention 

 to the fact that Dr. W. H. Holmes had retired on June 30, 1932, 



