34 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1942 



Through the French Government from museums and private col- 

 lectors in Europe, 154 paintings of the French school of the late 

 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition, this loan has been 

 supplemented by 101 French drawings which have not 3'et been placed 

 on exhibition. 



From the heirs of the late Right Reverend William Lawrence a por- 

 trait of their ancestor, Amos Lawrence, by Chester Harding. 



From the J. H. Whittemore Co.. of Naugatuck, Conn., 24 French 

 and American paintings from the Harris Whittemore collection. The 

 following paintings from the collection have been placed on exhi- 

 bition : 



Artist f^iihjrct 



Edgar Degas The Rohoar.sal 



Augusta Renoir Nude in Landscape 



Do Girl with a Cat 



.T. A. McN. Whistler The White Girl 



Do The Sea 



Do L'Andalusienne 



I/^AN OP^ WORKS OF ART RETURNED 



During the year the following works of art which had been placed 

 on loan at the Gallery were returned: 



To Duncan Phillips, a Trustee of the Gallery, two paintings previ- 

 ously loaned by him : 



Artist tinhjrct 



Caniille Corot The Dairy Farm 



Gustave Courbet Rocks at Ornans, Afterglow 



LOAN OF WORKS OF ART BY THE GALLERY 



During the year no works of art, belonging to the Gallery, were 

 placed on loan. 



EXHIBITIONS 



The following exhibitions were held at the National Gallery during 

 the last year : 



An exhibition, entitled "The Great Fire of London, 1940," of 107 

 paintings and drawings of wartime London by artists serving in 

 the London Auxiliary Fire Service, was shown in the Gallery from 

 July 18 through August 10, 1941. Sponsored by the British Govern- 

 ment under the auspices of the British Library of Infojination. this 

 exhibition—selected by Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National 

 Gallery, London ; Sir Walter W. Russell, R. A., Keeper of the Royal 

 Academy; and J. B. Mason, former Curator of the Tate Gallery, 

 London — after the completion of its first showing in the United Stat&s 

 at the National Gallery, toured the United States and Canada. 



Seventy paintings and drawings, and sculpture, representing the 

 art of Australia from 1788 to 1941, were placed on exhibition at the 



