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following officers were reelected for the ensuing year: Joseph H. 

 Gest, chairman; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., vice chairman; and Dr. 

 Charles G. Abbot, secretary. The following were reelected members 

 of the executive committee for the ensuing year: Charles Moore, 

 Herbert Adams, and George B. McClellan. Joseph H. Gest, as 

 chairman of the Commission, and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, as secre- 

 tary of the Commission, are ex-officio members. 



ART WORKS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 



Accessions of art works by the Smithsonian Institution are as 

 follows: 



Portrait of Julia Ward Howe (loiown as "The Battle Hymn 

 Portrait"), by John Elliott (1S58-1925). Presented by Mrs. Maud 

 Howe ElUott "for the collection of prominent Americans." 



Portrait of Mrs. Albert J. Myer, by George P. A. Healy, acquired 

 through bill of sale from Miss Gertrude Waldcn Myer, to be delivered 

 at her death (which occurred June 4, 1934). 



Plaster cast of heroic statue of Henry Clay, by Edmond T. 

 Quinn. Gift of the National Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, 

 D. C. This statue formed part of the George Washington Bicen- 

 tennial Exhibition at the National Museum in 1932. 



Plaster model of figure from group entitled "Patriotism", by 

 Adolph Alexander Weinman. Gift of the sculptor, through the 

 National Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, D. C. 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MYER FUND 



A bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer of Washington, 

 D. C, who died February 8, 1922, established under the Smithsonian 

 Institution, a fund for the purchase of first-class works of art for the 

 use and benefit of the National Gallery of Art. The following 

 miniatures have been acquired through this fund: 



Two Early American miniatures: Mrs. Alexander Kose, by John 

 Ramage, 1802; Mrs. Rose's brother-in-law, by Archibald Robertson 

 (1765-1835); purchased from Dr. Arthur R. Guerard, Cranford, N. J. 



Early American miniature of an "Unknown Man", by Edward 

 Greene Malbone (1777-1807), painted about 1798; purchased from 

 Mrs. Emily Nevill Jackson, London, England. 



LOANS ACCEPTED BY THE GALLERY 



Self portrait, by George Catlin (1796-1872), painted when the 

 artist was a young man; lent by Miss Mary Cogswell Kinney, New 

 York City. 



Two miniatures of John Parke Custis and Martha "Patty" Custis, 

 children of Martha Washington, painted at Mount Vernon in 1772 

 by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827); lent anonymously. 



