206 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
Columbia and surrounding counties of Maryland and Virginia these 
ladies assisted in conducting tours for 1,101 classes, with a total of 
82,548 children, an increase over last year of 9,987. 
The staff of the Educational Office delivered 20 lectures in the audi- 
torium on Sunday afternoons. Twenty-four lectures were given by 
guest speakers, and during March and April Sir Anthony Blunt de- 
livered the Seventh Annual Series of six A. W. Mellon Lectures in 
the Fine Arts on the theme “Poussin and French Classicism.” 
The Educational Department has nine sets of traveling exhibitions 
which are circulated to schools, libraries, universities, clubs, etc., 
throughout the United States, and were viewed by approximately 
20,000 persons. Sixteen copies of the film “Your National Gallery of 
Art” are on permanent loan in distribution centers throughout the 
country, and a new film on the Gallery “Art in the Western World” 
ig available for local viewers. The Educational Office continued the 
slide-strip sale and during the year a total of 37 sets of strips con- 
taining about 300 slides each were placed in Educational Institu- 
tions. The sales of the filmstrip “The Art of the Florentine Golden 
Age in the National Gallery of Art” totaled 64. 
During the past year 235 persons borrowed a total of 7,239 slides 
from the slide lending collection. 
Members of the staff prepared leaflets on works of art in individual 
galleries, and prepared mimeographed material for school tours; pre- 
pared and recorded 20 radio broadcasts for use during intermission 
periods of the National Gallery of Art concerts broadcast each Sun- 
day evening, and for circulation through audio-visual centers through- 
out the country. 
A printed Calendar of Events announcing all the National Gallery 
activities was prepared and distributed by the Educational Office to 
a mailing list of approximately 5,700 names. 
Dr. Stites visited museums, monuments, important houses and land- 
marks, for the purpose of photographing for a new filmstrip on Amer- 
ican painting. He held meetings with religious and cultural groups, 
and judged art shows for embassies, Government agencies, and others. 
He recorded talks for the Voice of America, gave the commencement 
address at Montgomery Junior College, and attended cultural awards 
dinner of the Scholastic Magazine. Dr. Evans judged art shows for 
the Navy and for community activities groups, gave a slide lecture to 
the National Convention of Penwomen and set up a teachers’ aids ex- 
hibition for the Arlington County schools. Dr. Evans also made an 
8-day survey tour of eastern audio-visual centers, for the National 
Gallery’s extension program. Dr. Bouton wrote articles on various 
artists for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and attended a meeting of 
the Washington Committee of Educational Television. Mrs. Michel- 
