46 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



Folk Art 



Norwegian Decorative Painting Norwegian Artists Guild ; Norwegian 



Embassy. 



Our Wide Land 1 1ndex of American Design, National 



Pennsylvania German Arts and > Gallery of Art 

 Crafts. J 



Ethnology 



Art and Magic in Arnhem Land Smithsonian Institution, Department of 



Anthropology. 



ABROAD 



Influences on American Architecture (Gropius). 



American Wallpaper. 



Contemporary American Textiles. 



Containers and Packaging. 



The World of Paul Revere. 



The City of New York. 



Aspects of the American Film — Fourteen Directors. 



Mississippi Panorama. 



Fashion and Color Photography. 



Carl Schnrz. 



These displays were scheduled as an integral part of the programs 

 of 77 museums and galleries, located in 29 States, the District of 

 Columbia, and Canada. Catalogs were published for each, including 

 the exhibit of the "French Drawings of Five Centuries," lent by the 

 Government of France. This exhibit was first shown at the National 

 Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, and then sent to Cleveland, St. 

 Louis, Boston, and New York City, before its return to France. The 

 catalog, prepared by Mme. Bouchot-Saupique, curator of drawings at 

 the Louvre, was privately printed, with an introduction by I^Irs. Anne- 

 marie H. Pope, chief of the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition 

 Service. 



INFORMATION SERVICE 



In addition to the many requests for information received by mail 

 and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office numbered 1,432. 

 Examination was made of 773 works of art submitted for 

 identification. 



Washington art groups and local chapters of national civic organi- 

 zations were served during the year by National Collection of Fine 

 Arts staff members who judged art exhibitions and competitions, and 

 addressed meetings on subjects in their special fields. 



Introductions also were written to catalogs of exhibitions published 

 by organizations showing in the foyer galleiy. 



