APPENDIX 2 
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
Str: I have the honor to submit, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, 
the twelfth annual report of the National Gallery of Art, for the fiscal 
year ended June 30, 1949. ‘This report is made pursuant to the pro- 
visions of section 5 (d) of Public Resolution No. 14, Seventy-fifth 
Congress, first session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51). 
ORGANIZATION 
The statutory members of the Board of Trustees of the National 
Gallery of Art are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secre- 
tary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. The five general trustees continu- 
ing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1949, were Samuel H. 
Kress, Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Duncan Phillips, Chester Dale, and 
Paul Mellon. The Board of Trustees held its annual meeting on 
May 3, 1949. Samuel H. Kress was reelected President and Ferdi- 
nand Lammot Belin Vice President, to serve for the ensuing year. 
Donald D. Shepard continued to serve during the year as Advisor to 
the Board. 
All the executive officers of the Gallery continued in office during 
the year: 
Huntington Cairns, Secretary-Treasurer. 
David E. Finley, Director. 
Harry A. McBride, Administrator. 
Huntington Cairns, General Counsel. 
John Walker, Chief Curator. 
Macgill James, Assistant Director. 
The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the 
annual meeting May 3, 1949, were as follows: 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Chief Justice of the United States, ex officio, Fred M. Vinson, Chairman. 
Samuel H. Kress, Vice Chairman. 
Ferdinand Lammot Belin. 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Alexander Wetmore. 
Paul Mellon. 
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