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average daily number of visitors was 6,025, From March 17, 1941, 

 the day the National Gallery of Art was opened to the public, to 

 June 30, 1950, the number of visitors totaled 17,258,269. 



ACCESSIONS 



There were 2,354 accessions by the National Gallery of Art, as gifts, 

 loans, or deposits, during the fiscal year. Most of the paintings and a 

 number of the prints were placed on exhibition. 



PAINTINGS 



On December 6, 1949, the Board of Trustees approved the purchase 

 of the painting "The Skater," by Gilbert Stuart, with funds of the 

 Gallery. 



The Board of Trustees on October 18, 1949, accepted four paintings: 

 Self-portrait of Judith Leyster from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods 

 Bhss; "Colonel Pocklington and his Sisters," by Stubbs, from Mrs. 

 Charles S. Carstairs; "Enthroned Madonna and Child," Byzantine 

 thirteenth century, from Mrs. Otto Kahn; and "Yoimg Woman in 

 White," by Robert Henri, from Miss Violet Organ. 



DECORATIVE ARTS 



The Board of Trustees accepted from Lewis Einstein on December 

 6, 1949, a seventeenth-century Brussels tapestry entitled "America." 



PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 



On October 18, 1949, the Board of Trustees accepted from Miss 

 Margaret McCormick a drawing, "Head of an Old Man," attributed 

 to Legros. The Board on December 6, 1949, accepted a woodcut, 

 "Men with Boat on Shore of Ocean," by A. Lepere, from George 

 Matthew Adams. At the same time the Board approved the addition 

 of four Legros drawings and four Legros etchings to the gift by George 

 Matthew Adams of prints and drawings by Legros, and other works of 

 art. On May 4, 1950, the Board accepted 3 prints, "Wet" and 

 "Seaward Skerries," by Zorn, and "Limeburner," by Whistler, from 

 Walter L. Bogert; 142 prints and drawings from Lessing J. Rosenwald, 

 to be added to his gift to the Gallery; and 51 seventeenth-century 

 Dutch prints from John Thacher in memory of Charles Hoyt. On 

 the same date the Board also approved the addition of three Legros 

 drawings and five Legros etchings to the gift by George Matthew 

 Adams of prints and drawings by Legros, and other works of art. 



