60 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



ABROAD 



American Drawings. 



Fine American Printing. 



High-Speed Pliotograpiiy. 



Beyond the Mississippi with George Catlin. 



The Story of American Glass. 



These displays were scheduled as an integral part of the program 

 of the United States Information Agency and 121 museums and gal- 

 leries located in 36 States, the District of Columbia and Canada. 

 Special catalogs were published for each of the following important 

 exhibitions: Fuseli Drawings; Watercolors and Drawings by 

 Gavarni ; Carl Bodmer Paints the Indian Frontier ; and Chinese Gold 

 and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection (published in Sweden by the 

 owner and lender, Dr. Carl Kempe) . Special acknowledgments for 

 the Fuseli and Bodmer catalogs were written by Mrs. Annemarie H. 

 Pope, chief of the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. 



INFORMATION SERVICE AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 



In addition to the many requests for information received by mail 

 and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office numbered 2,122. 

 Examination was made of 748 works of art submitted for identifica- 

 tion. 



The staff members of the National Collection of Fine Arts served 

 on juries for 8 exhibitions, delivered 5 lectures (4 illustrated), partici- 

 pated in 1 radio broadcast, and made 1 TV appearance. 



An article, "National Collection of Fine Arts, John Gellatly (1853- 

 1931)," by Thomas M. Beggs, was printed in the summer, 1954, issue 

 of the American Society Legion of Honor Magazine, and one by Paul 

 V. Gardner, curator of ceramics, "Archaeological Highlights in the 

 John Gellatly Collection," was published in the summer, 1954, issue of 

 Archaeology. 



Rowland Lyon, exhibits preparator, held three special exhibitions: 

 35 prints at the Division of Graphic Arts, United States National 

 Museum, during December 1953; 49 oils, watercolors, prints, and 

 sculptures, at George Washington University in May 1954; and 25 

 block prints at the Galleria Clan, Madrid, Spain, during Jmie 1954. 



REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE COLLECTION 



In continuance of the cleaning, revarnishing, and replacing in reno- 

 vated frames or mounts, with the aid of the Museum's maintenance 

 and repair staff, of 1,730 paintings, sculptures, and other objects, dur- 

 ing the reorganization of the permanent exhibition in 1952-53, the 

 following work was done during the past year: 



Seventy-two paintings and sculptures were cleaned, or revarnished, 

 or otherwise renovated, for use on permanent exhibition or as loans. 



