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the greatest of their kind in critical literature from Aristotle to recent 

 times. A fully illustrated volume on the Gallery's sculpture, designed 

 as a companion volume to Masterpieces of Painting, by Messrs. Cairns 

 and Walker, is being prepared by Mr. Seymour for publication next 

 year under the title "Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art." A 

 book by Elizabeth Mongan on the Gallery's print collection will appear 

 in 1949. A thesis on Jan Mandijn, by Charles M. Richards, will also 

 be published. A work entitled "Three Centuries of American Paint- 

 ing" has been prepared by James W. Lane. A comprehensive work on 

 the Index of American Design, tentatively entitled "Made in America," 

 is being compiled by Mr. Christensen for publication in the near future. 

 Another book by Mr. Christensen scheduled to appear jointly in the 

 United States and England is entitled "Popular Art in the United 

 States." A picture book on the paintings and sculpture in the Widener 

 Collection is now on the press, and five handbooks on the Widener 

 Collection of Decorative Arts have been prepared by Mr. Christensen. 



Work on the revision and amplification of the Gallery's original 

 preliminary catalog, published in 1941, has continued. For the re- 

 vised catalog of paintings, notes have been prepared on more than 

 three-fourths of the new paintings not previously cataloged. The 

 sculpture catalog, being prepared by Mr. Seymour, is also moving 

 rapidly to completion. 



Other forthcoming publications by members of the Gallery staff 

 include an article by Huntington Cairns on Robert Briffault and the 

 Rehabilitation of the Matriarchal Theory for An Introduction to 

 the History of Sociology, to be published by the University of Chicago 

 Press, and also an article on The Future of Musical Patronage, to 

 appear in the Atlantic Monthly. A second series of short articles 

 by Mr. Walker, on paintings in the Chester Dale Collection, will ap- 

 pear in The Ladies' Home Journal. An article on Houdon by Mr. 

 Seymour is scheduled for publication in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 

 and an article on American Folk Art as Revealed in the Index of 

 American Design, by Mr. Christensen, will be published in Art in 

 America. 



Miss Mongan has been made an editor of the Graphic Art section 

 of a new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mr. Christensen 

 has reassembled and organized unbound copies of the Widener tapestry 

 catalog into portfolios for sale in the Information Rooms and distri- 

 bution to colleges. 



The Publications Fund has continued to supply color reproductions 

 of fine quality but moderately priced, and it is rather interesting to 

 note that in one item — postcards of works of art — nearly 3,000,000 

 copies have been sold since the Gallery was opened in 1941. 



