SECRETARY'S REPORT 29 



EXHIBITIONS 



During the fiscal year 1950 the following exhibitions were held at 

 the National Gallery of Art: 



Indigenous Art of the Americas. Lent by Robert Woods Bliss for an indefinite 

 period to the National Gallery of Art for exhibition. Reopened \vith changes 

 May 23, 1948. 



Gulbenkian Collection of Egyptian Sculpture. Lent by C. S. Gulbenkian for 

 an indefinite period to the National Gallery of Art for exhibition. Opened 

 January 30, 1949. 



Gulbenkian Collection of Eighteenth Century French Objects. Lent by C. S. 

 Gulbenkian for an indefinite period to the National Gallery of Art for exhibition. 

 Opened February 20, 1949. 



R. Horace Gallatin Collection. Exhibition of prints bequeathed to the National 

 Gallery of Art by Mr. Gallatin. Continued from previous fiscal year through 

 July 25, 1949. 



South African Art. Exhibition of contemporary South African paintings, 

 drawings, and sculptures sponsored by the Government of the Union of South 

 Africa. July 31 to September 5, 1949. 



R. Horace Gallatin Collection. Exhibition of the same prints mentioned above. 

 September 10 to October 17, 1949. 



Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections. Exhibition, lent by the Austrian 

 Government, of paintings, sculptures, miniatures, Greek and Roman antiquities, 

 ivories, works of goldsmiths and silversmiths, rock crystal and precious stones, 

 jewels, arms and armor, a clock, and tapestries, November 20, 1949, to January 

 22, 1950. 



American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art. Feb- 

 ruary 5 to April 2, 1950. 



Rosenwald Collection. Exhibition of recent accessions of prints and drawings. 

 Opened April 9, 1950. 



Makers of History in Washington, 1800-1950. Exhibition celebrating the 

 sesquicentennial of the establishment of the Federal Government in the City of 

 Washington. Opened June 29, 1950. 



The following exhibitions were displayed in the cafeteria corridor of 

 the Gallery during the fiscal year 1950: 



Prints by Adriaen van Ostade. Rosenwald and Addie Burr Clark Collections. 

 Continued from previous fiscal year through August 21, 1949. 



Nineteenth-century French Prints. Rosenwald and George Matthew Adams 

 Collections. August 23 to November 27, 1949. 



Exhibition of Rowlandson Prints. Rosenwald Collection. November 28, 

 1949, to February 27, 1950. 



Prints by Muirhead Bone, David Y. Cameron, and James McBey. Rosen- 

 wald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis. February 28 to May 14, 

 1950. 



Index of American Design. Water-color renderings. Opened May 15, 1950. 



