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Italian eighteenth-century prints from the Gallery's collection, from February 

 28 to May 21, 1945. 



Religious prints and drawings from the Gallery's collection, from May 9 to 

 June 19, 1945. 



Prints and drawings from the Gallery's collection and the Myron A. Hofer 

 collection, from May 9 to June 19, 1945. 



Paintings of The War against Japan by American artists in the Pacific areas, 

 from the Treasury Department, with the cooperation of the Army, Navy, and 

 Marine Corps, and Life Magazine, from May 27 to June 19, 1945. 



TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 



During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1945, the following drawings, 

 water colors, and prints were placed on exhibition : 



Index of American Design. — When the Index of American Design was trans- 

 ferred from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N. Y., where it has been 

 on loan, it contained 16 special traveling exhibitions which had been arranged by 

 that institution. The National Gallery of Art has subsequently added four trav- 

 eling exhibitions to this number. Exhibitions from the collection have been 

 shown at the following places during the fiscal year just ended : Worcester Art 

 Museum ; Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Ohio State Museum ; John Herron Art 

 Institute ; Rhode Island State College ; Children's Museum, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Little Gallery, North Canton, Ohio ; Kanawha County Public Library ; Baltimore 

 Museum of Art; University of New Hampshire; Pasadena Art Institute; and 

 Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin. 



Roscnwald prints. — Special exhibitions of prints from the Rosenwald collec- 

 tion were prepared and circulated during the past fiscal year. These exhibitions 

 were held at Cheltenham Art Center, Elkins Park, Pa. ; the Print Club, Philadel- 

 phia ; Philadelphia Museum of Art ; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Ind. : 

 Philadelphia Art Alliance; Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 



CUSTODIANSHIP OF FRENCH EXHIBITION MATERIAL 



The Board of Trustees, on February 1, 1945, relinquished its custo- 

 dianship of, and transferred to the Provisional Government of the 

 French Kepublic in the United States, all works of art and exhibition 

 material sent to the United States under the auspices of the former 

 French Government for exhibition purposes at various places in the 

 United States, including the World's Fairs in New York, N. Y., and 

 San Francisco, Calif. 



VARIOUS GALLERY ACTIVITIES 



During the period from July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, a total of 

 51 Sunday evening concerts were given in the East Garden Court of 

 the Gallery. The concerts were free to the public and were attended 

 by capacity audiences. The National Gallery Sinfonietta, under the 

 direction of Kichard Bales, played 11 concerts, with well-known guest 

 artists appearing occasionally. The Gallery's second American 

 Music Festival of works of American composers was held on four Sun- 

 day evenings in March 1945. 



