a2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
Contributing to the public’s increasing interest in the Gallery 
are the evening hours on Sunday, the special exhibitions, particularly 
those of wartime art, the Sunday evening concerts without charge, and 
the Servicemen’s Room, which provides a place of relaxation for men 
and women in the armed services. Approximately 30 percent of the 
visitors to the Gallery are men and women in the armed services, 
PUBLICATIONS 
The Information Rooms in the Gallery continue to offer an in- 
creasing variety of fine, although moderately priced, colored repro- 
ductions of paintings in the Gallery’s collections, as well as post cards, 
illustrated catalogs, and a general information booklet that is of 
great assistance to visitors and which may be obtained without charge. 
With the acquisition of the Lessing J. Rosenwald collection of prints 
and drawings, a large illustrated catalog of this collection and a set 
of 32 post-card reproductions of some of the prints and drawings in 
the collection have been added to the publications now available. 
During the past year there has been a great increase in the number 
of orders for the Gallery’s publications from servicemen overseas, who 
are purchasing color prints and catalogs for use in recreation rooms 
at military posts all over the world. There has also been an unusual 
demand from public schools throughout the United States for color 
reproductions and text material descriptive of the Gallery’s collections. 
These publications also are in demand in the Latin-American 
republics. 
WORKS OF ART STORED IN PLACE OF SAFEKEEPING 
Early in January 1942 a limited number of fragile and irreplace- 
able works of art in the Gallery’s collections were removed to a place 
of greater safety. ‘These works, stored in a place adapted for the pur- 
pose, have since been under constant guard by members of the Gal- 
lery’s guard force and under supervision and inspection by a member 
of the curatorial staff of the Gallery. 
ACQUISITIONS 
GIFTS OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 
The Board of Trustees, on December 4, 1948, accepted six etchings 
from David Keppel, five by Piranesi and one by Ugo de Carpi. Also 
on December 4 the Board accepted a gift of two drawings, “Seated 
Figure,” by Pascin, and “Head of a Girl,” by Puvis de Chavannes, 
from Lessing J. Rosenwald. On May 20, 1944, the Board accepted an 
additional gift of approximately 196 prints and drawings from Mr. 
