APPENDIX 2 
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
Sir: I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees 
of the National Gallery of Art, the seventh annual report of the Board 
covering its operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1944. This 
report.is made pursuant to the provisions of the Act of March 24, 19387 
(50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 18, 1939 
(Pub. Res. No. 9, 76th Cong.). | 
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 
During the fiscal year ended June 80, 1944, the Board was comprised 
of the Chief Justice of the United States, Harlan F. Stone; the Sec- 
retary of State, Cordell Hull; the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry 
Morgenthau, Jr.; and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Dr. C. G. Abbot, ex officio ; and five general trustees, David K. E. Bruce, 
Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Duncan Phillips, Samuel H. Kress, and 
Chester Dale. Mr. Dale was elected as general trustee on November 1, 
1943, to succeed Joseph E. Widener, who died on October 26, 1943. 
At its annual meeting, held on February 14, 1944, the Board re- 
elected David K. E. Bruce, President, and Ferdinand Lammot Belin, 
Vice President, to serve for the ensuing year. The executive officers 
continuing in office during the year were: 
Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treasurer. 
David E. Finley, Director. 
Harry A. McBride, Administrator. 
Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 
John Walker, Chief Curator. 
Macgill James, Assistant Director. 
Donald D. Shepard continued to serve during the year as Adviser to 
the Board. 
During the year E. Roy Bergholz was appointed as Assistant Treas- 
urer to succeed Charles Zinsner, who resigned; John A. Gilmore was 
appointed as Assistant General Counsel; Hanns Swarzenski was ap- 
pointed Curator of Sculpture; and Porter A. McCray was appointed 
Chief of the Inter-American Office. 
The Board of Trustees during the year was authorized and directed 
by the Foreign Funds Control of the United States Treasury Depart- 
ment, and at the request of the State Department, to assume custodian- 
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