44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



Two oils, portraits of Maj. Gen. Henry Tureman Allen and Maj. 

 Gen. Robert Lee Billiard, by Seymour M. Stone, were lent to the De- 

 partment of the Army on May 23, 1952, for a period not to exceed 

 4 years. 



WITHDRAWALS BY OWNERS 



One pastel painting, The Tennessee Madonna, by James Ross Bry- 

 son, lent by Mrs. B. S. Williams in 1931, was withdrawn by the owner 

 on November 23, 1951, and delivered to the National Shrine of the 

 Immaculate Conception, Washington, D. C. 



Two panels of stained glass, Dante and Beatrice, designed and 

 executed by William Willet, were withdrawn by the artist's daughter, 

 Mrs. Thomas H. English, Atlanta, Ga., on March 17, 1952. 



Eighteen pieces of ceramics and one teakwood stand were with- 

 drawn by Mrs. H. Foster Bain and shipped to the University of 

 Nevada, Reno, Nev., on June 16, 1952. 



One oil painting, portrait of Sr. Benito Juarez, by Tom Lea, lent 

 by the State Department in 1949, was returned to the Blair Lee House 

 on June 16, 1952. 



SMITHSONIAN LENDING COLLECTION 



Fifty-four paintings in oil, by Edwin Scott (1863-1929) , were added 

 to the xAliee Pike Barney Memorial Collection presented last year to 

 the Smithsonian Institution by Natalie Clifford Barney and Laura 

 Dreyfus-Barney, as the nucleus of a loan collection for the embellish- 

 ment of Federal buildings, museums, libraries, colleges, and other 

 educational institutions in this country. 



One oil painting, Early New Mexican Village (probably Lemitar), 

 by an undetermined artist, transferred from the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, was lent to the Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa 

 Fe, through Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Regent of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, February 27, 1952, for an indefinite period. 



Ten paintings by Alice Pike Barney (1860-1931) were lent to the 

 Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College, Prairie View, 

 Tex., on February 27, 1952, for a special exhibition. (Returned 

 June 3, 1952.) 



Fourteen paintings (12 by Alice Pike Barney, 1 by E. Ray, and 1 

 by A. Bander) were lent to Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., on 

 June 16, 1952, for special exhibition. 



One oil painting, Small Port, Puerto Montt, by Arturo Pacheco 

 Altamirano, the gift of the people of Chile to the United States 

 through Senor Felix Nieto del Rio, the Chilean Ambassador, after 

 its initial exhibition of 5 months in the lobby of the Natural History 

 Building, was lent to Lehigh University, June 23, 1952, for a period 

 of six months. 



