96 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



Six paintings by George Catlin were cleaned, repaired, and revar- 

 nished, and two picture frames were refinislied for the United States 

 National Museum. 



Under special contract, Glenn J. Martin began the cleaning and 

 restoring of 12 paintings in the permanent collection. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 

 Fifteen special exhibitions were held during the year : 



August 23 through September 21, 1956. — The Second Biennial Exhibition of 

 Creative Crafts, sponsored by the Ceramic Guild of Bethesda ; Clay Pigeons of 

 Kensington ; Cherry Tree Designers ; Designer -Weavers, and The Kiln Club of 

 Washington, consisting of 113 pieces. Craft demonstrations were given twice 

 daily. A catalog was privately printed. 



October 7 through 28, 1956.— The Sixty-fourth Annual Exhibition of The Society 

 of Washington Artists, consisting of 32 paintings and 18 pieces of sculpture. A 

 catalog was privately printed. 



November S through 25, 1956. — The Nineteenth Metropolitan State Art Contest, 

 held under the auspices of the D. C. Chapter, American Artists Professional 

 League, assisted by the Entre Nous Club, consisting of 203 paintings, sculpture, 

 prints, ceramics, and metalcrafts. A catalog was privately printed. 



December 2 through %k, 1956. — Paintings of Life in Greece, Spain, and the 

 United States, by Demetrios J. Kokotsis, sponsored by His Excellency, The Am- 

 bassador of Greece, George V. Melas, consisting of 71 oil paintings and 65 sketches. 

 A catalog was mimeographed. 



December 9 through 24, 1956. — Contemporary Persian Miniature Paintings of 

 Selected Quatrains of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Hossein Behzad, spon- 

 sored by His Excellency, the Ambassador of Iran and Madame Amini, consisting 

 of 50 paintings. 



January 6 through 27, 1957. — Twenty-first Exhibition of the Society of Wash- 

 ington Printmakers, consisting of 208 works in the graphic media. A catalog 

 was privately printed. 



February 5 through 28, 1957. — In cooperation with the Department of History, 

 an exhibition, "Portraits in Plaster," consisting of 38 life and death masks and 9 

 busts of famous European and American statesmen, artists, musicians, and poets, 

 mostly of the 18th and 19th centuries, from a collection assembled in 1929 by 

 Henry C. McComas and presented to the United States National Museum. A 

 mimeographed list was supplied. 



March 10 through 29, 1957. — The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the Artists 

 Guild of Washington, consisting of 50 paintings and 3 pieces of sculpture. A 

 catalog was privately printed. 



March 10 through 29, 1957. — The Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Washington 

 Sculptors Group, consisting of 5S pieces of sculpture. A catalog was privately 

 printed. 



April 7 through 28, 1957. — Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings of Life in 

 Pakistan, by Zainul Abedin under the sponsorship of His Excellency, the Ambas- 

 sador of Pakistan and Begum Ali, consisting of 52 paintings. A catalog was pri- 

 vately printed. 



April lit through 28, 1957. — Exhibition of 115 color renderings, "500 Years of 

 Turkish Tiles," by Captain Izzet Cetin; 14 photographs showing interiors and 

 exteriors of buildings in Turkey which contained the tile of which the renderings 



