180 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



treatment to works of art belonging to other Government agencies 

 including the White House, the Freer Gallery of Art, and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The Director's book on The Feast of the Gods and related paint- 

 ings, entitled "Bellini and Titian at Ferrara," appeared during the 

 year. Mrs. Fern K. Shapley was the coauthor of a book "Compari- 

 sons in Art," also published by the Phaidon Press. She also prepared 

 the text for the Gallery's Portfolio No. 5, "Masterpieces from the 

 Samuel H. Kress Collection." Mr. Campbell compiled the data for the 

 Bellows and Garbisch exhibition catalogs, and wrote the introduction 

 to the Garbisch catalog. Mr. Christensen prepared a guide to the 

 Chinese porcelains of the Widener Collection, and wrote an article 

 on "An American Primitive Portrait Group" for Antiques magazine. 

 Mr. Cooke's research on "Documents Relating to the Fontana di 

 Trevi" was published in the September Art Bulletin, and six of his 

 short articles for the Ladies Home Journal appeared during the year. 

 Mr. Pancoast reviewed a book on Ghiberti for The American Scholar. 



During the past fiscal year the Publications Fund published three 

 new ll-x-14-inch color reproductions, and two more were on order. 

 Eleven new color post cards were published ; and plates were made for 

 seven new Christmas and Easter folders. Two more large collotype 

 reproductions of paintings on exhibition, distributed by a New York 

 publisher, were placed on sale; ll-x-14-inch reproductions printed on 

 canvas, an entirely new type of item, were also on order. 



Two new books of A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, "The Art 

 of Sculpture," by Herbert Read, and "The Nude," by Kenneth Clark, 

 were placed on sale. "American Primitive Paintings," Part II, was 

 made available, and a book "Portrait of Jesus," by Marian King, based 

 on pictures in the National Gallery of Art, was stocked, as well as a 

 paper-bound edition of a booklet, "Favorite Paintings from the Na- 

 tional Gallery of Art," by present and former members of the Gallery 

 staff. There was a fourth printing issued of the Gallery's Handbook 

 No. 1, "How to Look at Works of Art; The Search for Line," by 

 Lois A. Bingham. 



Catalogs of the George Bellows show and "One Hundred Years of 

 Architecture in America" exhibition were distributed. 



A boxed set of ten 2-x-2-inch color slides with text was made avail- 

 able. 



EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 



The program of the Educational Office was carried out under the 

 supervision of the Curator in Charge of Educational Work and his 

 staff who lectured and conducted guided tours in the National Gallery 

 of Art on the works of art in its collection. 



