122 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
Oriental Art 
Stone Rubbings from Angkor Cultural Center of Angkor; Weyhe Gallery. 
Wat. 
Folk Art 
Shaker Craftsmanship_________ Index of American Design, National Gallery 
of Art. 
Photography 
The Unguarded Moment, Pho- Peter Hunter, George Eastman House; Time 
tographs by Erich Salomon. and Life Building, New York; Library of 
Congress. 
Children’s Exhibitions 
Children’s Paintings from Yorkville Youth Council, Inc., N.Y.; Shankers 
Southeast Asia. Weekly. 
Drawings by European Chil- Dr. Joy B. Roy, collector. 
dren. 
Children’s Paintings from In- Shankers Weekly; Fine Arts Commission’s 
dia. People to People Program. 
A Child Looks at the Museum__ Junior School, Art Institute of Chicago. 
Swiss Children’s Paintings._._._-. Mrs. Dorothy Snow, Boston Museum of Fine 
Arts. 
INFORMATION SERVICE AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 
In addition to the many requests for information received by mail 
and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office numbered 2,016. 
In all, 199 works of art were submitted for examination and identi- 
fication. 
Special catalogs with introductions and biographical notes by the 
Director were published for the following three exhibitions: Profiles 
of the Time of James Monroe; Henry Ward Ranger Centennial Ex- 
hibition; and Turn-of-the-Century Paintings from the William T. 
Evans Collection. He also published a vignette, Francis Davis Millet, 
in the Cosmos Club Bulletin for May 1959. 
Special catalogs were published for the following traveling exhibi- 
tions: American Primitive Paintings; British Artist-Craftsmen; 
Dutch Master Drawings; Contemporary French Tapestries; Fulbright 
Painters; Recent Work by Peter Takal; and UNESCO Water Color 
Reproductions. Special acknowledgments for two of these were writ- 
ten by Mrs. Annemarie H. Pope and Mrs. Jo Ann Sukel Lewis. 
Mr. Beggs was one of the three jurors for the national newspaper 
cartoon contest on the subject of “Human Betterment,” Birmingham, 
Ala., on January 16, 1959, and he judged the regional exhibition of 
the National League of American Pen Women on April 27, 1959. 
On September 1, 1958, he participated in a symposium, “The Study of 
Art as the Study of Man,” at the American Psychological Association 
