APPENDIX 3 
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
Str: 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, 1946: 
APPROPRIATIONS 
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, and other necessary incidental expenses, $14,550 was allotted, 
of which $5,018.19 was expended in connection with the care and 
maintenance of the Freer Gallery of Art, a unit of the National Col- 
lection of Fine Arts. The balance was spent for the care and upkeep 
of the National Collection of Fine Arts, nearly all of this sum being 
required for the payment of salaries, traveling expenses, purchase of 
books and periodicals, and HOCERSAEY disbursements for the care of 
the collection. 
THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 
The twenty-third annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commis- 
sion was held on December 4, 1945. ‘The members assembled in Gallery 
3 of the National Collection of Fine Arts, in the Natural History 
Building, at 10:30 a. m., where, as the advisory committee on the 
acceptance of works of art which had been submitted during the year, 
they accepted the following: 
Oil painting, The Woodland Way, by William Baxter Closson (1848-1926). 
Gift of the executors of Mrs. Closson’s estate. 
Oil painting, Portrait of George Catlin, by William Fisk, R. A. (1796-1872). 
Gift of Miss May C. Kinney, Ernest C. Kinney, and Bradford Wickes. 
Miniature, Miss Clementine Dalecour in Mourning, by A. Margaretta Archam- 
bault. Gift of the artist. 
Miniature, Woman Knitting, by Mary Ursula Whitlock (1860-1944). Gift of 
the executors of the artist’s estate. Accepted for the Smithsonian Institution. 
The members then adjourned to the offices of Dr. Wetmore, Secretary 
of the Institution, for the further proceedings, and the meeting was 
called to order by the chairman, Mr. Manship. 
The members present were: Paul Manship, chairman; Dr. Alexander 
Wetmore (ex officio) ; and Robert W. Bliss, John N. Brown, George 
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