42 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1947 



Catlin and Portrait of a Man, by George Catlin, and John Trumbull 

 Ray and Portrait of a Gentleman, by Thomas S. Cummings, were lent 

 to the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn., to be included in 

 their Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Eighty Eminent Painters of 

 Connecticut, March 9 to April 20, 1947. (Returned April 28, 1947.) 



An oil painting, The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814, by Sir 

 Amedee Forestier, was lent April 3, 1947, to the Committee on Un- 

 American Activities, to be hung in its committee room for an indefinite 

 period. 



Two oil paintings. At Nature's Mirror, and Sunset, Navarro Ridge, 

 California Coast, by Ralph Albert Blakelock, were lent to the Whitney 

 Museum of American Art, New York City, to be included in an ex- 

 hibition of paintings by the artist, April 21 through May 29, 1947. 

 (Returned June 6, 1947.) 



LOANS RETURNED 



An oil painting, Fired On, by Frederic Remington, lent to The White 

 House, June 7, 1945, was returned July 17, 1946. 



THE HENRY WARD RANGER FUND 



No. 69. Soutli Dakota Evening, by Jes W. Sclilaikjer, A. N. A. 

 ( 1897- ) , previously assigned to Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 was reassigned November 21, 1946, to San Joaquin Pioneer and His- 

 torical Society, Stockton, Calif. 



The following two paintings were recalled for action on the part 

 of the Smithsonian Art Commission, in accordance with the provision 

 in the Ranger bequest. The Smithsonian Art Commission decided not 

 to accept the paintings and they were returned to the museums to 

 which they were originally assigned: 



No. 7. The Shrine of the Rain Gods, by E. Irving Couse, N. A. (1866-1936), 

 assigned to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. 



No. 112. Medieval Art, by Edwin H. Blashfield, N. A. (1848-1936), assigned 

 to the William Rockliill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas Oity, Mo. 



THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS REFERENCE LIBRART 



A total of 405 publications (255 volumes and 150 pamplilets) were 

 accessioned. This number includes 162 volumes and 41 pamphlets 

 purchased, the priced auction catalogs of the Parke-Bernet Galleries 

 accounting for 44 volumes and 32 pamphlets. The other accessions 

 were publications received by exchange, gift, or transfer. The year's 

 additions brought the total library accessions to 10,540, plus the vol- 

 umes of serials formerly accessioned by the Museum Library for the 

 National Gallery of Art, now the National Collection of Fine Arts. 



