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ant restorer to the Gallery on December 1, 1949. All work was com- 

 pleted in the restorer's studio in the Gallery with the exception of the 

 restoration of two paintings begun before the death of Mr. Pichetto in 

 January 1949 and completed in the New York studio by Mr. Pichetto's 

 residual staff. Both paintings have been returned to the Gallery in 

 good condition. 



PUBLICATIONS 



During the year Himtington Cau-ns contributed articles and reviews 

 to the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Virginia 

 Quarterly Review, and the Baltimore Evening Sun. He also delivered 

 four lectures at the Johns Hopkins University on the theory of 

 criticism. 



The series of 12 articles on "Masterpieces in the Gallery" by John 

 Walker, published in the Ladies' Home Journal, was completed in 

 December 1949, making a total of 36 articles by Mr. Walker, prin- 

 cipally on the Gallery's collection, published in that periodical sinca 

 1946. An article by Mr. Walker on "The Vienna Treasures and Their 

 Collectors" appeared in the National Geographic Magazine for June 

 1950. Erwin O. Christensen contributed two articles to Antiques 

 Magazine: "Justice," published in January 1950, and "What Is 

 American Folk Art?" published in May 1950. James W. Lane con- 

 tributed fom- book reviews to the Catholic World, on "John Singleton 

 Copley," by James T. Flexner, "Cream Hill," by Lewis Gannett, 

 "The Twelve Seasons," by Joseph Wood Krutch, and "The Virgin and 

 Child," with introduction by Thomas Bodkin; he also wrote a review 

 of "Martin Johnson Heade," by Robert G. Mclntyre, for the summer, 

 1949, issue of the College Art Journal. An article by Charles M. 

 Richards, "Standard Procedure for Intermuseum Loans," was pub- 

 lished in Museum News. 



An illustrated catalog of recent acquisitions to the Rosenwald 

 Collection was compiled by Miss Elizabeth Mongan and was issued for 

 the opening of the Rosenwald exhibition on April 9, 1950. An illus- 

 trated catalog of the "Makers of History in Washington, 1800-1950," 

 was prepared by Perry B. Cott and James W. Lane for the opening of 

 the "Makers of History in Washington, 1800-1950" exhibition. 



A second volume of "Masterpieces of Painting from the National 

 Gallery of Art," by Huntington Cairns and John Walker, is in process, 

 and Perry B. Cott has begun the preparation of a catalog on Renais- 

 sance bronzes. 



During the past fiscal year the publications fund supplemented 

 the group of color reproductions offered to the public with four new 

 color postcard subjects and a new ll-by-14-inch reproduction; 

 12 more of the latter are on order, to be utilized in a forthcoming 



