SECRETARY'S REPORT 27 



ATTENDANCE 



There were 1,647,470 visitors to the Gallery during the fiscal year 

 1953, an average daily attendance of about 4,538. This is an increase 

 of 124,874 over the number for 1952. Since March 17, 1941, when the 

 Gallery was opened to the public, to June 30, 1953, there have been 

 21,931,483 visitors. 



ACCESSIONS 



There were 1,408 accessions by the National Gallery of Art as gifts, 

 loans, and deposits during the fiscal year 1953. Most of the paintings 

 and a number of the prints were placed on exliibition. 



GIFTS 



PAINTINGS 



The Board of Trustees on July 21, 1952, accepted from Mrs. Augus- 

 tus Vincent Tack the gift of a portrait of President Truman, painted 

 by her husband, which will be held for a National Portrait Gallery. 

 On October 21 the Gallery received the gift of a painting from Samuel 

 L. Fuller, entitled "Portrait of a Lady," by Salviati, which had been 

 accepted by the Board of Trustees on December 6, 1950. On Novem- 

 ber 3, the Board accepted the bequest by the late Mrs. Charles S. 

 Carstairs of three paintings: "Head of a Woman," by Manet; "The 

 Sisters," by Berthe Morisot ; and a portrait of herself by Sir William 

 Orpen. The gift of a painting by Leonid entitled "Faraduro," from 

 the Avalon Foundation, was accepted by the Board of Trustees on 

 December 3, 1952. On February 9, 1953, the Board accepted from 

 Frederick Sturges, Jr., the painting "Newport Harbor, 1857," by John 

 Kensett. On March 30, 1953, the Board accepted a bequest of the 

 following seven paintings from the late Adolph Caspar Miller : 



Artist Title 



Cranach Madonna and Child. 



Van Dyck Portrait of a Young Man. 



Peter Gertner Portrait of a Young Man. 



Peter Gertner Portrait of a Lady. 



Ambrosius Benson Portrait of a Man. 



Ambrosius Benson Portrait of a Lady. 



Barthel Bruyn Portrait of a Man. 



SCULPTURE 



On October 21, 1952, the Board accepted a bequest by the late Albert 

 E. Gallatin of a bust of Whistler by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm which 

 will be held for a National Portrait Gallery. On December 3 the 

 Board accepted a gift from the children of the late Mrs. Otto Kahn 



