108 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
preciation by Mr. Beggs, illustrated; Recent American Prints; A 
Century of City Views; Cock van Gent; 2d Pacific Coast Biennial; 
Contemporary Portuguese Architecture; Fulbright Designers; In- 
dian Paintings from Rajasthan; Swedish Textiles Today; and Nylon 
Rug Designs. Mrs. Annemarie H. Pope, chief of the Smithsonian 
Traveling Exhibition Service, wrote special acknowledgments for 
the last two and a foreword for Indian Paintings from Rajasthan; 
acknowledgments for the Fulbright Designers were written by Mrs. 
Jo Ann Sukel Lewis, research assistant. 
Mr. Beggs gave a talk on Regionalism in American Art to the Art 
League of Manatee County, Fla.; spoke on Paintings of the Passion 
of Christ at the Rock Springs Congregational Church, Arlington, 
Va.; and gave a talk on Private Collections Publicly Maintained to 
the Arts Club of Washington. He served on the juries of two local 
shows. 
Mrs. Pope departed June 18 for Europe to see the exhibits of the 
United States and other countries at the Brussels International Fair 
and to visit England, Holland, France, Italy, Greece, and Switzerland 
to study new exhibitions and make selections of some for circulation 
here. 
Rowland Lyon served as juror for eight local shows. 
Thirty-three paintings in oil on canvas from the permanent col- 
lections were cleaned and revarnished, 2 were relined, and 48 picture 
frames were repaired and refinished. One plaster cast and one bronze 
statue were cleaned and refinished. One painting by George Catlin 
was relined to repair a 22-inch tear in the canvas, for the United States 
National Museum. 
The 18-foot ceiling decoration, “Dawn,” by Thomas W. Dewing, in 
the Gellatly Collection, was renovated by Henri G. Courtais and in- 
stalled in a specially constructed pavilion. In addition, Mr. Courtais 
restored “Aurora Borealis,” by Frederick E. Church, “Madonna and 
Child with Apple,” by an Old Flemish Master, and made minor re- 
pairs to “Entombment,” by Rogier van der Weyden. 
Glenn J. Martin cleaned and removed old repaint on 11 paintings 
recently acquired. 
Twenty oil portraits of World War IT leaders by John C. Johansen 
and pastel drawings of the Civil War Veterans by Walter Beck have 
been removed from the second floor gallery and are to be installed at 
the south end of the foyer together with the miniature portraits in 
specially lighted cases. 
The oil portrait of President John Tyler, by G. P. A. Healy, was 
copied by C. Gregory Stapko in November 1957. 
