REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 51 



ART WORKS ADDED DURING THE YEAR 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 



Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Ellery Burge, by Thomas Mathewson. 

 and portrait of Miss Jessie Jay Burge, by Abbott Handerson Thayer 

 (1849-1921) . " Permanent loan " (stipulated term) , from the Misses 

 Marie Louise and Jessie Jay Burge, of Warsaw, N. Y. 



Two oil paintings: " Une Brave" and "An Alsatian Girl," by 

 Miss Lucie Louise Fery. Bequests of the artist, through Mr. George 

 H. Moffett, executor, Charleston, S. C. 



" Wharf Scene " (oil), by Bertha E. Perrie. Gift of Miss Maude 

 Burr Morris, Washington, D. C. 



Mantel of carved white holly wood, with fireplace of pink Numi- 

 dian marble, from the recently demolished residence of the late Ben- 

 jamin H. Warder, 1515 K Street, Washington, D. C, Henry Hobson 

 Eichardson, architect (1838-1886). Gift of William White Wilson 

 Parker, of Washington, D. C, and Mifflintown, Pa. 



"Eoosevelt Haunts, Early Autumn" (oil), by Emile Walters 

 (1893- ) ; awarded the William O. Goodman prize by the Art 

 Institute of Chicago, 1921. Presented by an art collector, through 

 Mr. A. Lawrence Kocher, of the Pennsylvania State College. 



A list of the portraits presented by various cities through the 

 National Art Committee, Hon. Henry White, chairman, to the Na- 

 tional Portrait Gallery is given on page 49. 



Portraits deposited by the National Art Committee and available 

 for presentation by other cities are listed on page 50. 



A Chinese carved ivory screen and 141 pieces of antique and 

 modern porcelain, made in Saxony, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Ger- 

 many, France, and Great Britain between 1790 and 1860, were added 

 to his collection by the Kev. Alfred Duane Pell, D. D., of New York. 



DEPOSIT BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Bronze bust of Jeanne d'Arc, by Madame Berthe Girardet, gold 

 medalist, Neuilly, France. Gift of Madame Girardet, the sculptor 

 through Mrs. John Jacob Hoff (Mrs. Grace Whitney Hoff), " to the 

 American people in memory of what our soldier boys have done in 

 France at a crucial time of need." Accepted by the Smithsonian 

 Institution for deposit in the gallery. 



The collection of 22 framed individual portraits and portrait 

 groups in pastel, 70 portraits in all, of Federal and Confederate 

 Veterans of the Civil War, painted by Walter Beck (1864- ), 50 

 years after the battle of Appomattox, lent to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution on May 1, 1922, for a period of one year, through the agency 

 of Mr. Walter Grant, became the property of the Nation by gift of 



