Report on the National Collection 

 of Fine Arts 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activ- 

 ities of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1954 : 



SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 



The 31st annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was 

 held in the Kegents Room of the Smithsonian Building on Tuesday, 

 December 1, 1953. Members present were : Paul Manship, chairman ; 

 Leonard Carmichael, secretary (member, ex officio) ; Robert Woods 

 Bliss, Gilmore Clarke, Lloyd Goodrich, Walker Hancock, Archibald 

 Wenley, Lawrence Grant White, Andrew Wyeth, and Mahonri Young, 

 Thomas M. Beggs, director. National Collection of Fine Arts, was 

 also present. 



Resolutions on the deaths of James Earle Fraser, John Taylor Arms, 

 and Frank Jewett Mather were submitted and adopted. 



The Commission recommended to the Board of Regents the name 

 of Reginald Marsh to succeed Mr. Arms and Charles H. Sawyer to 

 replace Eugene E. Speicher. The Commission also recommended the 

 reelection of Robert Woods Bliss, John Nicholas Brown, George 

 Hewitt Myers, and Mahonri M. Young for the next 4-year period. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Paul Man- 

 ship, chairman; Robert Woods Bliss, vice chairman; and Leonard 

 Carmichael, secretary. 



The following were elected members of the executive committee for 

 the ensuing year: David E. Finley, chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, 

 Gilmore D. Clarke, and George Hewitt Myers. Paul Manship, as 

 chairman of the Conunission, and Leonard Carmichael, as secretary 

 of the Commission, are ex-officio members of the executive committee. 



Doctor Carmichael reported briefly on a bill (H. R. 5397), intro- 

 duced by Representative Howell, "to provide for the establishment 

 of a National War Memorial Arts Commission," and on how it might 

 affect the National Collection of Fine Arts. 



The following objects were accepted by the Commission for the 

 National Collection of Fine Arts : 



Oil, Major General George B. McCIellan (1826-85), by Julian Scott, A. N. A. 

 (1846-1901). Bequest of Georgiana L. McCIellan. Accepted for the National 

 Portrait Gallery. 



Oil, Lago Maggiore, c. 1867, by William Stanley Haseltine, N. A. (1835-1900). 

 Gift of Mrs. Roger Plowden. 



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