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same artist. Now occupying the greater part of the space allotted 

 to the Gallery in the new building, this collection forms a most 

 notable gift to the Nation and places the public under a debt of last- 

 ing gratitude to this generous and patriotic benefactor. The canvases 

 received from Mr. Evans during the year were as follows : 



Nymph and Water Babies at Play, by William Baxter Palmer 

 Closson. 



Ariadne,, by Wyatt Eaton. 



Laguna — New Mexico, by Albert Lorey Groll. 



After a Storm, Amagansett, by Arthur Turnbull Hill. 



The Spouting Whale, by William Morris Hunt. 



Monhegan Headlands, by William S. Robinson. 



Dublin Pond, New Hampshire, by Abbott Handerson Thayer. 



The Cup of Death, by Elihu Vedder. 



The Blockmaker, by Edgar Melville Ward. 



The Knight of the Holy Grail, by Frederick J. Waugh. 



Russian Tea, by Irving Ramsay Wiles. 



Mr. Evans also added 34 examples to the valuable series of proofs 

 of American wood engravings mentioned in the report of last year. 

 They are by Timothy Cole, William Baxter Palmer Closson, Fred 

 Yuengling, and Victor Bemstrom. This collection, now containing 

 115 proofs and representing 16 engravers, is exhibited on several 

 screens placed in the pavilion at the north end of the middle hall 

 opposite the entrance to the gallery of paintings. 



The following paintings from the Evans collection were exhibited 

 elsewhere during the year: May Flowers, by Mrs. Louise Cox, at the 

 Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and 

 Sculpture, held at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 14 

 to December 27, 1911 ; and The Visit of Nicodemus to Christ, by John 

 La Farge, The Spouting AVliale, by William Morris Hunt, and High 

 Cliff, Coast of Maine, by Winslow Homer, at a Comparative Exhibi- 

 tion of Paintings of the Romantic Movement by artists of the 

 French, Dutch, English, and American Schools, held at the Lotos 

 Club, New York, during a part of January and February, 1912. 



Three other contributions of valuable paintings which are of spe- 

 cial historical interest are described in connection with the division of 

 history. Tliey comprise portraits of the early geographers, Mathias 

 Ringmann, Martin Waldseemuller,, and Vautrin Lud, who orig-inated 

 the name America ; a portrait of John Ericsson, by Arvid Nyholm, 

 and a painting of the Combat between the Monitor and Merrimac, by 

 Henry Reuterdahl; and portraits of Commodores Oliver Hazard 

 Perry and Thomas Macdonough. A plaster cast of the head of David 

 by Michelangelo was presented to the Gallery by Mr. L. Amateis, of , 

 Washington. 



