94 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



Folk Art — Continued 



Title Source 



Swiss Peasant Art R. Hanhart, Director, Museum, St. Gall ; 



Pro Helvetia Foundation ; Embassy of 



Switzerland. 

 Ansel Adams Photographs 1933- Artist; George Eastman House, Roches- 



1953. ter. 



Birds in Color, by Eliot Porter Artist ; American Museum of Natural 



History. 



Japan I, by Werner Bischof Magnum Photos, Inc. 



Japan II, by Werner Bischof Magnum Photos, Inc. 



Perceptions Mrs. Dody Warren Weston and Donald 



Ross; San Francisco Museum of Art; 



photographers. 

 This is the American Earth Ansel Adams ; Nancy Newhall ; National 



Park Service; California Academy of 



Sciences ; Sierra Club. 

 The World of Edward Weston Beaumont and Nancy Newhall; artist; 



George Eastman House. 

 Young Germans Behind the Camera— Dr. L. Fritz Gruber, Photokina, Cologne ; 



German Embassy. 



Anthropology 



Carl Bodmer Paints the Indian Karl Viktor, Prinz zu Wied; German 

 Frontier. Embassy. 



A. J. Miller Watercolors Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md. 



Swedish Rock Carvings Dr. Per Nystrom, Governor of the 



Province of Goteborg and Bohus, Em- 

 bassy of Sweden. 



EXHIBITIONS CIRCULATED ABROAD 



John Marin. 



This is the American Earth (4 copies). 



INFORMATION SERVICE AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 



In addition to the many requests for information received by mail 

 and telephone, inquiries made in person at the office numbered 2,293. 

 Examination was made of 836 works of art submitted for identifi- 

 cation. 



An illustrated and descriptive catalog, by Paul Vickers Gardner, 

 entitled "Meissen and Other German Porcelain in the Alfred Duane 

 Pell Collection," was published in July 1956. 



An illustrated booklet, "Alice Pike Barney: Paintings in Oil and 

 Pastel," with foreword by Thomas M. Beggs, was published in May 

 1957. 



Special catalogs were published for the following 11 exhibitions : A 

 Half- Century of Architectural Education; Contemporary Danish 

 Architecture; Dutch Art 1945-1955; George Bellows Prints and 

 Drawings; German Architecture Today; Sixty Swedish Books; 



