58 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1923 



lowing extract from the last will and testament of Henry Ward 

 Ranger : 



All pictures so purchased are to be given by the council to art institutions 

 in America, or to any library or other institutions in America maintaining a 

 gallery open to the public, all such gifts to be upon the express condition 

 that the National Gallery at Washington, administered by the Smithsonian 

 Institute shall have the option and right, without cost, to take, reclaim, and 

 own any picture for their collection, provided they exercise such option and 

 right at any time during the five year period beginning ten years after the 

 artist's death and ending fifteen years after his death, and, if such option 

 and right is not exercised during such period, the picture shall remain and 

 be the property of the institution to which it was first given. 



NATIONAL GALLERY LIBRARY 



Accessions to the gallery library Nos. 1-325 have been recorded 

 from various sources as gifts, purchases, and exchanges, and include 

 bound and unbound volumes and pamphlets. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Holmes, W. H. Catalogue of collections, I, National Gallery of Art Govern- 

 ment Printing Office, 1922. 8vo, pp. i-vi ; 1-98, 25 plates and 1 ground plan. 

 This is the first number of the catalogue series of the gallery which is to 

 be issued from time to time as conditions warrant. It follows in general the 

 form of the catalogues of the art collections of the National Museum pre- 

 pared by former Assistant Secretary Rathbun (Bull. 70, U. S. N. M., 1916), 

 which was published, however, before the gallery became a separate de- 

 partment of the Institution. It contains an introduction by the director, 

 giving a brief account of the development of the art interests of the Institu- 

 tion and an outline of the organization of the gallery. This is followed by a 

 list of the art works acquired previous to November, 1921, with brief biog- 

 raphies of the artists. It is illustrated with a ground plan and full page 

 halftone plates of 25 of the most noteworthy of paintings and sculptures in 

 the gallery. 



Report on the National Gallery of Art for the year ending June 30, 1922. 



Appendix 2, Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Wash- 

 ington, Government Printing Office, 1922, pp. 42-54. Separate. 



A two-page leaflet on the National Gallery has also been issued which, like 

 the recent leaflets on the Smithsonian Institution previously issued, is to have 

 wide distribution. It Is Intended to bring forcibly to the attention of the 

 public the great need of a separate building to house the national art collec- 

 tions. 



Respectfully submitted. 



W. H. Holmes, 

 Director, National Gallery of Art. 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



