﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  29 
  

  

  On 
  March 
  18, 
  1943, 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  announced 
  the 
  gift 
  

   of 
  the 
  famous 
  collection 
  of 
  prints 
  of 
  Lessing 
  J. 
  Rosenwald. 
  The 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  consists 
  of 
  over 
  6,500 
  items, 
  including 
  representative 
  examples 
  

   of 
  print-making 
  from 
  the 
  fifteenth 
  century 
  to 
  the 
  present, 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  drawings, 
  original 
  wood 
  blocks 
  and 
  copper 
  plates, 
  letters 
  and 
  valu- 
  

   able 
  reference 
  books 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  engraving. 
  The 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  was 
  carefully 
  built 
  up 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Rosenwald 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  20 
  years. 
  

   Because 
  of 
  his 
  extraordinary 
  knowledge 
  and 
  discrimination, 
  he 
  has 
  

   brought 
  together 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  graphic 
  arts 
  

   ever 
  assembled 
  by 
  a 
  private 
  individual. 
  

  

  LOAN 
  OF 
  WORKS 
  OF 
  ART 
  RETURNED 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  year 
  the 
  following 
  works 
  of 
  art 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  placed 
  

   on 
  loan 
  at 
  the 
  Gallery 
  were 
  returned 
  : 
  

  

  To 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  C. 
  Miller 
  the 
  seven 
  paintings 
  loaned 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  Gallery 
  

   and 
  listed 
  in 
  this 
  report 
  under 
  the 
  heading 
  "Loans 
  of 
  Works 
  of 
  Art 
  to 
  

   the 
  Gallery." 
  

  

  LOAN 
  OF 
  WORKS 
  OF 
  ART 
  BY 
  THE 
  GALLERY 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  year 
  13 
  architectural 
  drawings 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  

   building 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  John 
  Russell 
  Pope 
  were 
  placed 
  on 
  loan 
  with 
  the 
  

   National 
  Academy 
  of 
  Design, 
  New 
  York, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  EXHIBITIONS 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  exhibitions 
  were 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  

   Art 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  year 
  : 
  

  

  An 
  exhibition 
  of 
  bronze 
  busts 
  of 
  South 
  American 
  Presidents 
  was 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  West 
  Garden 
  Court 
  of 
  the 
  Gallery 
  from 
  June 
  27 
  

   through 
  July 
  19, 
  1942. 
  The 
  countries 
  represented 
  were 
  Chile, 
  Ecua- 
  

   dor, 
  Uruguay, 
  Venezuela, 
  Paraguay, 
  Argentina, 
  Bolivia, 
  Peru, 
  Colom- 
  

   bia, 
  and 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  Sponsored 
  by 
  Life 
  magazine, 
  an 
  exhibition 
  of 
  118 
  paintings 
  of 
  

   military 
  life 
  and 
  activities 
  done 
  in 
  oils, 
  water 
  colors, 
  and 
  charcoal 
  

   by 
  artists 
  serving 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  armed 
  forces 
  was 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  

   Gallery 
  from 
  July 
  5 
  through 
  August 
  2, 
  1942. 
  

  

  A 
  group 
  of 
  seventeenth- 
  and 
  eighteenth-century 
  prints 
  from 
  the 
  

   Gallery's 
  own 
  collection 
  was 
  exhibited 
  from 
  August 
  7 
  through 
  Sep- 
  

   tember 
  29, 
  1942. 
  

  

  An 
  exhibition 
  of 
  Chilean 
  Contemporary 
  Art 
  consisting 
  of 
  150 
  oil 
  

   paintings, 
  water 
  colors, 
  drawings, 
  and 
  prints 
  selected 
  from 
  the 
  great 
  

   Chilean 
  Exhibition 
  assembled 
  by 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Chile 
  during 
  the 
  

   observance 
  of 
  the 
  400th 
  anniversary 
  of 
  Santiago, 
  Chile's 
  capital, 
  was 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  Gallery 
  from 
  October 
  10 
  through 
  November 
  8, 
  1942. 
  

  

  