56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1924 



gians, were installed in the foyer of the New National Museum, in 

 direct association with the great collection of World War historical 

 exhibits. This proved unsatisfactory, however, and space was 

 finally provided on the second floor of the Natural History Museum, 

 where partitions were erected inclosing a floor space 34 by 37 feet. 

 This improvised gallery, artificially lighted, although separated 

 from the gallery proper, proved to be quite satisfactory, and the por- 

 traits are shown to good advantage. 



DISTRIBUTIONS 



Loans have been withdrawn by their owners as follows : 



Evening ; Junipers in Winter, by Ludwig Dill ; withdrawn by the 

 American Federation of Arts. 



Portrait of Associate Justice Pierce Butler, of the United States 

 Supreme Court, by Nicholas Richard Brewer; withdrawn by Mr. 

 Butler. 



Forty-one paintings by Ossip Perelma; withdrawn by Mr. 

 Perelma. 



Portrait of San Lorenzo Guistiniano, by Gentili Bellini; with- 

 drawn by the American Red Cross through Miss Irene M. Given- 

 wilson, curator of the Red Cross Museum. 



Painting entitled "A Prayer to St. Genevieve," by Mme. la Mar- 

 quise de Wentworth ; withdrawn by Dr. J. H. Gore. 



NECROLOGY 



The announcement of the death of Ralph Cross Johnson on July 

 9, 1923, at his summer home, city of Belfast, Me., where he and Mrs. 

 Johnson had settled for the summer, came as a great surprise and 

 is deeply regretted by the Smithsonian people, and very especially 

 by the staff of the National Galler3^ Mr. Johnson's gift to the gal- 

 lery of masterpieces of painting is regarded as one of the richest con- 

 tributions ever made to the art treasures of the Nation. 



The Rev. Alfred Duane Pell, D. D., of New York City, a bene- 

 factor of the gallery, died in April, 1924. 



Appended to this report is a list of portraits and portrait sculp- 

 ture, approximately 450 in number, belonging to the Smithsonian 

 Institution and its branches (not printed). It is intended to serve 

 as a record of the Institution's collections in these branches and for 

 convenience in organizing the contemplated national portrait gal- 

 lery. 



Respectfully submitted. 



W. H. Holmes, Director. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary, Sviithsonian Institution. 



