38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 194 5 



LOAN OF WORKS OF ART BY THE GALLERY 



During the fiscal year 1045, the Gallery loaned the following works 

 of art for exhibition purposes : 



Particulars Artist 



To the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 111. : 



Mrs. Richard Yates Gilbert Stuart. 



To the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 

 Va.: 



Nineteen paintings Gilbert Stuart. 



To the Century Association, New York, N. Y. : 



Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Augustus Vincent Tack. 



Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Augustus Vincent Tack. 



To the Museum of Art, Providence, R. I. : 



Mrs. Richard Yates Gilbert Stuart. 



To the White House, Washington, D. C. : 



George Washington Rembrandt Peale. 



Allies Day, May 1917 Childe Hassam. 



To the United States Department of State — Blair 

 Lee House, Washington, D. C. : 



Daniel Webster P. A. Healy. 



Seven prints from the Rosenwald collection. 



LOANED WORKS OF ART RETURNED 



During the year the print "Saint Jerome beside a Pollard Willow" 

 by Rembrandt, lent to the Gallery by W. G. Russell Allen, was 

 returned to him. 



EXHIBITIONS 



The following exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Art 

 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1945 : 



American Battle Art paintings — Revolutionary War to World War I, from 

 museums and private collections, from July 4 to September 4, 1944. 



American portraits from the Gallery's collection, from September 5 to Novem- 

 ber 13, 1944. 



Paintings of Naval Medicine from the Abbott Laboratories and the United 

 States Government, from September 10 to October 18, 1944. 



Paintings and drawings of the United States Coast Guard by United States 

 Coast Guard combat artists, from September 17 to October 18, 19-14. 



Wartime paintings of flyers, planes, and world-wide combat operations of the 

 Army Air Forces, by Army Air Forces artists, from October 15 to November 10, 

 1944. 



Nineteenth-century etchings and drawings by Legros from the collection of 

 George Matthew Adams, from October 15 to November 12, 1944. 



Eighteenth-century prints and drawings from the Widener collection, the Dr. 

 A. W. S. Rosenbach collection, and the Mrs. Irwin Laughlin collection, from 

 November 19, 1944, to January 14, 1945. 



French drawings from the French Government, the Myron A. Hofer collection, 

 and the Harris Whittemore collection, from November 19, 1944, to May 8, 1945. 



