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its presentation to the Gallery, was at the eighty-sixth annual exhibi- 

 tion of the National Academy of Design, March 11 to April 16, at 

 which it was awarded the First Hallgarten Prize. 



Mr. Evans did not confine his donations to paintings, however, 

 since he also presented 81 framed engravings as part of a series of 

 100 proofs designed to illustrate the best work of American wood 

 engravers, which he had announced his intention of placing in the 

 Gallery. They were hung with the paintings. Fifteen engravers are 

 represented, Henry Wolf by the greatest number of examples, the 

 others being Timothy Cole, Victor Bernstrom, William B. Closson, 

 John P. Davis, Frank French, T. Johnson, F. S. King, Elbridge 

 Kingsley, G. Kruell, R. A. Muller, Caroline A. Powell, S. G. Putnam, 

 John Tinkey, and F. H. Wellington. 



Mr. Charles L. Freer, whose important gift to the Nation of 

 American and oriental art still remains in the keeping of the donor 

 at his home in Detroit, Michigan, spent a large part of the year abroad 

 in the interest of the enrichment of this notable collection, to which 

 he made extensive and valuable additions. During most of the 

 winter Mr. Freer traveled in China, visiting many places which 

 promised opportunities for observation and acquisition, and espe- 

 cially some of the interior cities which, centuries ago, were great 

 producing centers of art. 



The Gallery was also fortunate in securing a number of interesting 

 loans, the most noteworthy of which is a choice collection of 15 

 paintings., kindly deposited by Mr. William A. Slater, of Washing- 

 ton. It has been installed in and fully occupies one of the two small 

 rooms at the northern end of the Gallery inclosure. Fourteen artists 

 are represented as follows : Rembrandt, by " The Rabbi " ; Ruysdael, 

 by "The Dunes near Haarlem"; Hobbema, by "The Mill "; Millet, 

 by "Seamstresses Sewing on Shroud" and "The Drinking Place," 

 the latter a pastel; Corot, by "Nymphs and Fauns"; Troyon, by 

 " Horses at Watering Trough " ; Diaz, by " Forest of Fontainebleau " ; 

 Rousseau, by " Sunset in a Wood " ; Daubigny, by " Springtime " ; 

 Delacroix, by " Return of Columbus to Court of Ferdinand " ; Met- 

 tling, by " Portrait of a Boy " ; Madame Le Brun, by " Portrait of a 

 Lady "; Herkomer, by a portrait of Mr. Slater's father; and Wyant, 

 by a landscape. 



To his loan of the previous year, numbering nine paintings by 

 Raeburn, Romney, Stanfield, Wilson, Flinck, Maes, Guardi, Hogarth, 

 and Cox, Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, of Washington, generously added 

 two fine canvases, a " Portrait of Mrs. Towry," by Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, and " Portrait of the Duchess of Ancaster," by Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds. 



