Report on the National Gallery of Art 



Sir : I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, 

 the 20th annual report of the National Gallery of Art for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1957. This report is made pursuant to the pro- 

 visions of section 5 (d) of Public Resolution No. 14, 75th Congress, 

 first session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51) . 



ORGANIZATION 



The statutory members of the Board of Trustees of the National 

 Gallery of Art are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Sec- 

 retary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. On May 1, 1957, Chester 

 Dale was reelected a general trustee of the National Gallery of Art 

 to serve in that capacity for the term expiring July 1, 1967. Mr. 

 Dale was also reelected by the Board of Trustees on May 2, 1957, to 

 serve as President of the Gallery, and Ferdinand Lammot Belin was 

 reelected Vice President. The four other general trustees continu- 

 ing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1957, were Ferdi- 

 nand Lammot Belin, Duncan Phillips, Paul Mellon, and Rush H. 

 Kress. 



On September 13, 1956, the Trustees of the Gallery elected Perry 

 B. Cott as Chief Curator and Mrs. Fern R. Shapley as Assistant 

 Chief Curator. At this same meeting the Trustees approved the 

 appointments of William P. Campbell as Curator of Paintings and 

 John E. Pancoast as Registrar. 



The executive officers of the Gallery as of June 30, 1957, are as 



follows : 



Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treas- Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 



urer. Perry B. Cott, Chief Curator. 



John Walker, Director. Macgill James, Assistant Director. 

 Ernest R. Feidler, Administrator. 



On July 1, 1957, Macgill James retired as Assistant Director of the 

 Gallery. 



The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the 

 annual meeting on May 2, 1957, are as follows : 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Chief Justice of the United States, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



Earl Warren, Chairman. tion, Dr. Leonard Carmichael. 



Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. Paul Mellon. ' 

 Ferdinand Lammot Belin. 



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