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Mr. Walker served as trustee for the American Federation of Arts 

 and the American Academy in Rome. He also served on the follow- 

 ing committees: Dumbarton Oaks Visiting Committee and the Art 

 Committee of the New York Hospital. He was also a member of 

 the United States National Commission for UNESCO. Mr. Cott 

 served on the Fine Arts Committee of the Washington Cathedral and 

 the Interdepartmental Committee for the Protection of Cultural 

 Property (UNESCO). He was elected president of the Washington 

 Society, Archaeological Institute of America. 



RESTORATION AND REPAIR OF WORKS OF ART 



Necessary restoration and repair of paintings and sculpture in the 

 Gallery's collection were made by Francis Sullivan, resident restorer 

 to the Gallery. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Jolin Walker wrote a series of articles on paintings in the Chester 

 Dale Collection which appeared in the Ladies Home Journal. 



Miss IMongan wrote an article on modern prints for the College Art 

 Journal. 



Mr. Campbell prepared the text of the sixth edition of the catalog, 

 French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. He also com- 

 posed the catalog American Primitive Paintings from the Collection 

 of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 



Mrs. Shapley continued the preparation of a new catalog of 

 paintings. 



A monograph on Giovanni Bellini's "Feast of the Gods" is being 

 revised by Mr. Walker. 



During the fiscal year 1954 the Publications Fund added 12 new 

 11- by 14-inch color reproductions to the list available. Twenty-eight 

 new monotone postcards and five new Christmas-card color plates were 

 also added. Eight large collotype reproductions of paintings in the 

 permanent collection as well as six reproductions of paintings from 

 the twentieth-centuiy French paintings in the Chester Dale loan col- 

 lection, distributed by a New York publisher, were placed on sale. 



At the Christmas season a new Portfolio No. 3, entitled "Portraits 

 of Children in the National Gallery of Art," was published. In the 

 spring of 1954 a catalog of "American Primitive Paintings from the 

 Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch" was 

 issued. The Mellon and original Dale catalogs, the latter in a some- 

 what enlarged edition, were reprinted during the year. 



Exhibition catalogs of the Flemish and Dutch Drawings and Water- 

 colors, Gavarni, Pre-Columbian Gold, and Contemporary American 

 Indian Painting shows were also made available to the public. 



