56 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
several visits to Europe and the Orient. These additions have been 
the subject of three supplemental transfers, the last of which was 
executed on July 22, 1910. The following summary of the compo- 
sition of the collection at the close of last year conveys only a 
suggestion of its richness: 
American art is represented by the works of 6 painters, as follows: 
Thomas Wilmer Dewing, by 21 oil paintings, 8 pastels, and 1 silver 
point; Abbott Henderson Thayer, by 10 oil paintings and 1 water 
color; Dwight William Tryon, by 26 oil paintings, 2 water colors 
and 12 pastels; Childe Hassam, by 1 oil painting; J. Gari Melchers, 
by 1 oil painting, a portrait of President Roosevelt; and James 
Abbott McNeill Whistler, by 58 oil paintings, 43 water colors, 32 
pastels, 110 drawings and sketches, 3 wood engravings made after 
his designs, 402 etchings and dry points (over 600 impressions), 166 
lithographs (190 impressions), 37 original copper plates, including 
the Thames set, and the entire woodwork and decoration of the 
famous Peacock Room from the London residence of the late F. R. 
Leyland. 
The oriental part of the collection consists of choice and rare 
examples of paintings, pottery, and other kinds of objects, assembled 
at much pains and with careful discrimination. The period covered 
extends back some twenty centuries, and the number of oriental 
masters represented is exceptionally great. The paintings are 
entirely Japanese and Chinese, and comprise 146 screens, 71 panels, 
338 Kakemono, 67 Makimono or scroll paintings, 15 albums of 
paintings, and 13 Tibetan paintings. The pottery numbers 1,506 
pieces, of which 706 are Japanese, 214 Korean, 189 Chinese, 86 
Persian, 128 Rakka, and 82 Egyptian, the remainder coming from 
other parts of central and western Asia. The miscellaneous objects, 
of which there are 187, include figures, statuettes, sculpture, mirrors, 
boxes, etc., in bronze, stone, wood, and lacquer, and a number of 
Byzantine gold ornaments and medallions. There is also a collection 
of over 600 specimens of ancient Egyptian glass, consisting of bottles, 
vases, and miscellaneous shapes. 
During the year Mr. William T. Evans added 30 examples to his 
notable collection, which now numbers 114 pieces and represents 
80 modern American artists, the most of whom are still living. 
The collection consists wholly of paintings in oil, with the exception 
of a fire etching on wood, by Mr. J. William Fosdick. Three 
paintings belonging in the original gift were replaced by other 
examples by the same artists. A complete list of the collection 
is given at the end of this section. 
For the most noteworthy loan of the year the Gallery is indebted 
to the kindness of Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, of Washington. Received 
in time for exhibition on the opening day, it entirely occupies one of 
