APPENDIX 3 

 REPOKT ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the fourth annual report on the 

 Freer Gallery of Art for the year ending June 30, 1924. 



THE COLLECTION 



Work completed during the year includes the examination, classi- 

 fication, and cataloguing of Chinese and Japanese stone sculptures 

 and paintings. Further work has been done in the preservation of 

 oil paintings; 40 Wliistler water colors and pastels have been re- 

 framed, and the titles of those on exhibition have been painted upon 

 the frames. The relettering of titles and references upon the mounts 

 of Wliistler etchings and lithographs is well advanced and the work 

 of remounting a certain number has been begun. 



Identification photographs of all objects in the collections of pot- 

 tery, stone sculpture, jade, and bronze, and of a number of Chinese 

 paintings in panel form have been made. These photographs are 

 mounted upon the cards of the general catalogue and provide an 

 easy but accurate means of reference which saves much handling of 

 the collections. In response to requests other photographs and slides 

 have been made, reproducing not only objects in the collection, but 

 also cases and other details of installation, as well as views in and 

 about the building. 



During January and February a special exhibition of 136 Whistler 

 etchings, dry points, and lithographs was on view in Galleries I, II, 

 III, and IV. In May the Chinese makimono^ shown in Gallery XIV, 

 were installed in cases built to receive them. Other changes in ex- 

 hibition involved 42 oil paintings, 14 water colors, 20 pastels, 5 

 Indian paintings, 3 Persian paintings, 2 Chinese paintings, 2 Chinese 

 bronzes, 2 Chinese sculptures, 1 piece of Korean pottery, 1 Japanese 

 painting. 



One thousand four hundred gallery books, giving detailed infor- 

 mation about objects on exhibition, have been compiled, mimeo- 

 graphed, and bound for use in all the Whistler galleries, including 

 the Peacock Room. Through the courtesy of the Boston Museum of 

 Fine Arts, the Synopsis of History^ a parallel chronological table 

 prepared for the use of students, has been issued in a Freer Gallery 

 edition, which has had a second printing of 600 copies, while our 



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