REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



55 



Title 



Artist 



Date pur- 

 chased 



Assigned 



36. Midsummer 



37. The Bathers 



38. The Little Priucess. 



39. The Necklace 



40. The Brook at Car 



versville. 



41. Clearing after Sep 



tember Gale — 

 Maine Coast. 



William S. Robinson, N. A. 



Spencer Nichols, A. N. A 



Arthur P. Spear, A. N. A 



Richard E. Miller, N. A 



E. W. RedQeld 



Howard Russell Butler, N. A. 



Apr. 7, 1924 



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do. 



Apr 14,1924 

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Apr. 7, 1924 



Waco Art League, Waco, Tex. 



Free Public Library of 



Jersey City, Jersey City, 

 N.J. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS HELD IN THE GALLERY 



A collection of nine paintings by the Tuscan artists Francesco 

 Gioli (184e-1922) and Liiigi Gioli, lent by the Royal Embassy of 

 Ital}^, Washington, D. C, was shown on screens in the totem-pole 

 room at the south end of the gallery. 



A special joint exhibition of paintings by Savely Sorin and 

 sculptures of Seraphin Soudbinine was held in the large central room 

 of the gallery. The opening view, cards for which were issued by 

 the Smithsonian Institution, took place on the afternoon of Janu- 

 ary 10, from 2 to 4.30. The exhibition closed on January 27, 1924. 



An exhibit of the art work of Viennese children, pupils of Pro- 

 fessor Cizek, of Vienna, was held in the lobby of the Natural 

 History Building, under the auspices of the American Federation 

 of Arts, May 7 to 19, 1924. This exhibit is being circulated in this 

 country under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



INSTALLATION OF THE WORLD WAR PORTRAITS 



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In the annual report for 1923 a brief account was given of the 

 painting and subsequent history of the World War portrait collec- 

 tion provided by the National Art Committee, and it may be desir- 

 able here to repeat the statement there made to the effect that the 

 original plan for the acquirement of the collection for the Nation 

 has not as yet been fully carried out. In order that the gift of 

 these portraits might have a distinctly national character, it was 

 planned that a group of two or more, financed by citizens of any 

 city, should be inscribed as presented by that city. Thirteen of the 

 portraits w^ere in this manner added to the national collection, while 

 eight await the reawakening of the patriotic impulse that inspired 

 the original movement in behalf of a World War collection. 



In 1921 the collection was turned over to the American Federa- 

 tion of Arts by the committee for exhibition purposes, and was 

 shown in 25 of the principal American cities. On arrival in Wash- 

 ington, June 12, 1923, the portraits, 20 in number, and 1 portrait 

 group, supplemented later by a portrait of the Queen of the Bel- 



