APPENDIX 2 

 REPORT ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



Sir: Pursuant to the provisions of section 5 (b) of Public Resolu- 

 tion No. 14, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved March 24, 1937, I 

 have the honor, on behalf of the trustees of the National Gallery 

 of Art, to submit the first annual report of the Board, covering the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1938, on its operations under the afore- 

 mentioned joint resolution. 



Under the joint resolution of Congress it appropriated to the 

 Smithsonian Institution the area bounded by Seventh Street, Con- 

 stitution Avenue, Fourth Street and North Mall Drive (now Madison 

 Drive) Northwest, in the District of Columbia, as a site for a 

 National Gallery of Art; authorized the Smithsonian Institution to 

 permit The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, a pub- 

 lic, religious, educational, and charitable trust, established by the late 

 Hon. Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., to construct thereon a 

 building to be designated the "National Gallery of Art" ; and created, 

 in the Smithsonian Institution, a bureau to be directed by a board 

 to be known as the "Trustees of the National Gallery of Art," 

 charged with the maintenance and administration of the National 

 Gallery of Art. This act provides that the board be comprised of 

 the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary of State, the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, ex-officio, and five general trustees. The general trustees 

 first taking office were to be chosen by the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution; and their successors are to be chosen by 

 the majority vote of the general trustees. 



On June 24, 1937, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution appointed the following as general trustees of the National 

 Gallery of Art : 



Donald D. Shepard, for the term expiring July 1, 1939; 

 S. Parker Gilbert, for the term expiring July 1, 1941 ; 

 Duncan Phillips, for the term expiring July 1, 1943 ; 

 David K. E. Bruce, for the term expiring July 1, 1945 ; 

 Andrew W. Mellon, for the term expiring July 1, 1947. 



The Trustees deeply regret to report that Andrew W. Mellon, the 

 donor of the great art collection which has been deeded to the Gallery 



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