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PUBLICATIONS 



The publishing program of the National Gallery of Art, under the 

 direction of the Custodians of the Publications Fund, has continued 

 its expansion. During the fiscal year the third edition of Master- 

 pieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art, by Huntington 

 Cairns and John Walker, was published. Arrangements also were 

 made for the publication of an English edition. The Gallery has 

 initiated a series of National Gallery of Art handbooks, two of which 

 were issued during the year. These are : How to Look at Works of 

 Art : The Search for Line, by Lois A. Bingham, and Chinese Porce- 

 lains of the Widener Collection, by Erwin O. Christensen. Also issued 

 during the year was a small volume of color reproductions, entitled 

 "Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art," with accom- 

 panying texts prepared by the Curatorial and Educational 

 Departments. 



Various articles by members of the Gallery staff were published dur- 

 ing the year. An article on Hobbes' Theoi-y of Law, by Himtington 

 Cairns, appeared in the 1946 issue of Seminar, and one on Leibniz's 

 Theory of Law in the Harvard Law Eeview for December 1946. A 

 lecture by Mr. Cairns, delivered at Harvard University on May 3, 1947, 

 as part of a 3-day Symposium on Music Criticism, and entitled "The 

 Future of Musical Patronage in America," will be published by Har- 

 vard University Press in book form. Mr. Cairns also contributed an 

 article, "Philosophy as Jurisprudence," to Essays in Honor of Roscoe 

 Pound, published by Oxford University Press. A comprehensive 

 article on the National Gallery, its collections, installations, and his- 

 tory, prepared by J. B. Eggen, was issued at the close of 1946 as volume 

 57-58 of the International Museum Journal, Mouseion, Paris, France. 



An article on American Painters and British Critics, by John 

 Walker, was published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and a series of 

 12 brief articles on American paintings in the Tate Exhibition, also by 

 Mr. Walker, appeared in The Ladies' Home Journal. Charles Sey- 

 mour, Jr., published an article on Thirteenth-Century Art, and another 

 in collaboration with Harms Swarzenski on A Madonna of Humility 

 and Quercia's Early Style, both appearing in the Gazette des Beaux- 

 Arts. James W. Lane contributed to Art in America, The College 

 Art Journal, The Catholic World, and other publications. Members 

 of the curatorial staff under Mr. Seymour's direction also edited the 

 handbook of the Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, entitled "In- 

 digenous Art of the Americas," the text for which was supplied by 

 Samuel Lothrop. 



Books by members of the staff in preparation or in press at the end of 

 the fiscal year included The Limits of Art, by Mr. Cairns, an extensive 

 compilation of selections of poetry and prose that have been held to be 



