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Gallery from October 2 to 26, 1941. These T\orks of art, the first 

 comprehensive exhibition of Australian art to be shown in the United 

 States, were sent, under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation 

 of New York, by the Commonwealth of Australia. 



Architectural drawings of the National Gallery building, to- 

 gether with progress photographs and a model of the exterior of the 

 building, showing the development of the building from the first 

 sketch to the final drawings, were loaned by Eggers & Higgins, the 

 architects, for exhibition at the Gallery from December 18, 1941, to 

 January 28, 1942. The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable 

 Trust, to augment the exhibition, loaned a number of renderings and 

 photographs of the progress of the building from their own records. 



Two groups of American water colors, drawings and prints — 

 "American Artists' Record of War and Defense" and "Soldiers of 

 Production" — were shown at the National Gallery; the former from 

 February 7 to March 8, 1941, and the latter from March 17 to April 

 15, 1942. The water colors in the first group had been submitted 

 in national competition for pictures recording war and defense activ- 

 ities, conducted by the Section of Fine Arts for the Office for 

 Emergency Management, and most of them were purchased by the 

 United States Government after selection by the appointed jury. 

 Those in the second group were water colors and drawings by eight 

 artists appointed on recommendation of the Section of Fine Arts by 

 the Office for Emergency Management and who, through the courtesy 

 of the War and Navy Departments, were permitted to make drawings 

 and paintings of what is known as restricted material. 



The Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy, Inc., exhibited 

 at the Gallery for a period of approximately 2 weeks, beginning 

 April 8, 1942, three triptychs by contemporary artists, which had 

 been selected by the Committee for later presentation to the Chapel 

 at Arlington Cemetery, Va. 



An exhibition of paintings, posters, water colors, and prints, show- 

 ing activities of the American Red Cross, were exhibited from May 2 

 to 30, 1942. These paintings were submitted in a national competi- 

 tion conducted for the American Red Cross by the Section of Fine 

 Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency. The 

 exhibition included the paintings which were purchased for the Red 

 Cross on advice of a jury, together with a group of other pictures 

 also recommended by the jury for exhibition. 



An exhibition of 11 portrait busts of the Presidents of the Repub- 

 lics of South America, by the American sculptor, Jo Davidson, was 

 held in the west garden court at the National Gallery of Art, begin- 

 ning Saturday afternoon, June 27, and continuing for about a 

 month. These busts were commissioned by the Office of the Co- 



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