APPENDIX 2 

 REPORT ON THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1937: 



For nearly 8 months of the fiscal year, this bureau of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution carried the name "National Gallery of Art", but 

 this was changed by an Act of Congress, approved by the President 

 on March 24, 1937, to "National Collection of Fine Arts", and the 

 old name was assigned to the new Smithsonian bureau created as the 

 result of Andrew W. Mellon's gift to the Nation of his unexcelled art 

 collection and funds to erect a splendid building to house it. 



A new system of lighting was installed over gallery 3, which pro- 

 duces a j)leasing soft light and also does away with the lighting fix- 

 tures and gives a ceiling to the gallery. This also made possible the 

 installation of four stained glass windows, two by John La Farge 

 and two by William Willet. 



Miss Louise A. Rosenbusch, who had been comiected Avith the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for 44 years and had served as Recorder of the 

 National Gallery of Art since it was made a separate unit in 1920, 

 was retired on November 30, 1936. 



Visitors to the office concerning art matters numbered 111 during 

 the last 5 months. 



APrKOPRIATIONS 



For the administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts by 

 the Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary 

 employees, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling 

 expenses, uniforms for guards, and necessary incidental expenses, 

 $34,275.00 was appropriated, of which $10,893.29 was expended for 

 the care and maintenance of the Freer Gallery of Art, a unit of the 

 National Collection of Fine Arts. 



THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COMMISSION 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the National Gallery of Art Com- 

 mission was held on December 8, 1936. The members met at 10 ; 30 

 at the National Gallery of Art, where, as the advisory conmiittce on 



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