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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



Department of State, Washington, D. C: 

 April 23, 1953 : 



Hill and Lake, by James Henry Moser. 

 Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D. C. : 

 May 13, 1953 : 



Boulevard St. Germain (Pr6s St. Germain-des-Pr6s), by Edwin Scott. 

 Chambre des D6put4s No. 1, by P^dwin Scott. 

 Place de la Concorde No. 1, by Edwin Scott. 

 Saint Germaine des Pres No. 3, by Edwin Scott. 

 June 25, 1953: 



Saint Germaine des Pres No. 2, by Edwin Scott. 



ALICE PIKE BARNEY MEMORIAL FUND 



An addition of $5,000 to the fund established in 1951 by :Miss 

 Natalie Clifford Barney and Mrs. Laura Dreyfus-Barney, in memory 

 of their mother, for the purpose of encouraging the appreciation and 

 creation of art in the United States, was received in January 1953. 



THE HENRY WARD RANGER FUND 



According to a provision in the Sanger bequest that paintings 

 purchased by the Council of the National Academy of Design from 

 the fund provided by the Henry Ward Ranger bequest, and assigned 

 to American art institutions, may be claimed during the 5-year period 

 beginning 10 years after the death of the artist represented, 2 paintings 

 were recalled for action of the Smithsonian Art Commission at its 

 meeting on December 2, 1952. 



No. 62. Man in White (Dr. Henry Sturgis Drinker), by Cecilia Beaux, N, A. 

 (1863-1942), was accepted by the Commission to become a permanent accession. 



No. 5. The Orange Bowl, by Anna S. Fisher, N. A. ( -1942), was returned 

 to the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R. I., where it was originally 

 assigned in 1921. 



The following paintings, purchased by the Council of the National 

 Academy of Design in 1952, have been assigned as follows : 



Title and Artist 



137. Yorktown Heights (water color), 



by Warren Baumgartner, N. A. 

 (1895- ). 



138. Pirates Alley, New Orleans, by Guy 



Pene Du Bois, N. A. (1884- ). 



139. Night Fair, by Martin Jackson 



(1871- ). 



140. Tide Water Creek, Oreg. (water- 



color), by Theodore Kautzky, 

 N. A. 



141. My Studio, by John Koch (1910- 



). 



142. Still Life with Leaves, by Roger 



Kuntz. 



Agaifftimeni 

 Suffolk Museum, Stone Brook, 

 Long Island, N. Y. 



Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Okla. 



Mead Memorial Museum, Amherst 



College, Amherst, Mass. 

 William A. Farnsworth Library 



and Art Museum, Rockland, 



Maine. 

 Society of Liberal Arts, Joslyn Art 



Museum, Omaha, Nebr. 

 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass. 



