124 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
Management Service. One painting, James W. Melville, by S. de 
Ivanowitz, was relined to repair a 16-inch tear in the canvas, for the 
U.S. National Museum. 
Three paintings, Italian Landscape, Sunset Glow, by Tom Jones; 
Lord Roth, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; and Fishing Boats Beating 
Up to Windward, by Edward Moran, were renovated by Henri G. 
Courtais, who also restored The Cottage Door, by Thomas 
Gainsborough. 
An oil, Major John Wesley Powell, by Edmund C. Messer, was 
renovated by Francis Sullivan. 
Janice Hines relined two oil paintings, Major John Wesley Powell, 
by Henry Ulke, and House in the Valley of Wyoming, by Boese, and 
renovated the following from the William T. Evans Collection: The 
Blacksmith, by James Caroll Beckwith; The Black Orchid, by Fred- 
erick Stuart Church; The Spouting Whale, by William Morris Hunt; 
Algerian Water Carrier, by William Sartain; Water Lilies, by Walter 
Shirlaw; The Boy with the Arrow, by Douglas Volk; Mrs. William 
T. Evans and Son John, by Henry Oliver Walker; and A Gentle- 
woman, by J. Alden Weir. 
Joseph Ternbach renovated the following 12 objects from the Gel- 
latly collection: Incense burner, enameled and chased copper, 15th 
century (234.1); Byzantine necklace of gold medallions with inlaid 
depictions of Christ and Apostles (247.1) ; Champleve limoges plaque, 
the Crucifixion, French, 13th century (250.1) ; copper chasse, French, 
18th century (251.1); Champleve limoges crucifix, French, 13th cen- 
tury (252.1); Champleve crozier, the Annunciation, French, 13th 
century (254.1) ; Russian ikon, Our Lady of Vladimir, (488.1) ; Pyxis 
with enamel decoration, 13th century (602.1) ; silver filigreed phoenix, 
Chinese (271.1); silver filigreed crown, ornamented with gems and 
symbols, Chinese (272.1) ; silver and enamel peacock (621.1) ; Chinese 
glass bowl (580). 
Donald Hitchcock, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, translated 
the Church Russian inscriptions on the silver-gilt ikon, Our Lady of 
Vladimir, in the Gellatly collection. 
The entrance to the Benjamin H. Warder home, received from the 
Cooperating Committee on Architecture in May 1923, was dismantled, 
crated, and stored at Suitland on May 15, 1959. 
An oul, John Tyler, by G. P. A. Healy, was copied by C. Gregory 
Stapko in a studio furnished to the National Collection of Fine Arts 
for that purpose through the courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. 
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 
Seventeen special exhibitions were held during the year: 
August 27 through September 26, 1958.—Third Biennial Exhibition of Creative 
Crafts sponsored by the Ceramic Guild of Bethesda, Cherry Tree Textile Design- 
