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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1924 



Art Gallery, Memphis, Tenn., for exhibition there during the Con- 

 federate reunion in June, 1924. They have been returned to their 

 places in the gallery. 



Two paintings by J. Alden Weir — Upland Pasture and The Gen- 

 tlewoman — were lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a 

 memorial exhibition of the work of that artist held in the Gallery of 

 Special Exhibitions from March 17 to April 20, 1924. These paint- 

 ings have been returned to the gallery. 



Three paintings — Birch-clad Hills by Ben Foster, A Family of 

 Birches by Willard L. Metcalf, and The Island by Edward W. Red- 

 field — were lent to the American Federation of Arts, which assem- 

 bled and sent, through the cooperation of the Department of State 

 and the United States Shipping Board, an exhibition of paintings 

 by American artists to be shown at the great international exhibi- 

 tion in Venice during this spring and summer, 1924. 



Thirty paintings by contemporary American artists, largely from 

 the William T. Evans collection, were lent to the American Federa- 

 tion of Arts for its traveling exhibition during the season of 1923- 

 24. These paintings were shipped to the Michigan Art Institute at 

 Detroit for its exhibit of August 31 to September 8, 1923, and have 

 since been shown at Nashville, Tenn., Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, 111., 

 Memphis, Tenn., Lincoln, Nebr., Clay Center, Kans., and New- 

 Orleans, La. They have been returned to the gallery. 



The painting by John La Farge, entitled " The Visit of Nico- 

 demus to Christ," was lent to the American Federation of Arts for 

 exhibition at the Carnegie Public Library, Fort Worth, Tex. Since 

 returned to the gallery. 



THE HENRY WARD RANGER FUND 



Since the paintings purchased during the year by the Council 

 of the National Academy of Design from the fund provided by the 

 Henry Ward Ranger bequest are, under certain restrictions, pro- 

 spective additions to the national collection the list may be given in 

 this place. The names of the institutions to which they have been 

 assiirned are as follows: 



Title 



31. The Hurrying River. 



32. The Little Princess... 



33. Evening Interior 



34. Captain Taylor's 



Sister. 



35. Far Away and Long 



Ago. 



Artist 



Robert H. Nisbet, A. N. A. 



Karl Anderson, A. N. A 



John C. Johansen, N. A 



Ernest L. Ipsen, A. N. A 



F. Ballard Williams, N. A.. 



Date pur- 

 chased 



Dec. 18,1923 



do. 



do 



do.. 



Apr. 14,1924 



Assigned 



Telfair Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, Savanna, Oa. 



Cedar Rapids Art Associa- 

 tion, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



The Columbus Gallery of 

 Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 



Free Public Art Gallery, 

 Dallas, Tex. 



Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, 

 N. Y. 



