SECRETARY’S REPORT 27. 
ATTENDANCE 
During the fiscal year 1949 there were 1,529,568 visitors to the 
Gallery, an average daily attendance of about 4,225. 
From March 17, 1941, the day on which the National Gallery of 
Art was first opened to the public, to June 30, 1949, there have been 
15,070,976 visitors to the Gallery. 
ACCESSIONS 
There were 1,174 accessions by the National Gallery of Art, as 
gifts, loans, or deposits, during the fiscal year. Most of the paintings 
and a number of the prints were placed on exhibition. 
PAINTINGS 
During the fiscal year the Board of Trustees of the National Gal- 
lery of Art received 10 paintings from the Estate of the late R. 
Horace Gallatin. The paintings are as follows: 
Artist Title 
Jean-Charlesv@azin3 t=. 822554 = se The Windmill. 
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot___..__..__----_- River View. 
Charles-Francois Daubigny—=-= 2-22-27 ~-__— Landscape with Figures. 
Diazidenltuensas ere a eee mre ayer an eee ee Forest Scene. 
Julessupresa es NTR Set OPE Oh ee The Old Oak. 
Brancesco;Guardl 2555.2) 352 82 cess. 2k The Rialto Bridge, Venice. 
ienri-Joseph) Hanpioniesa. =. 2a) eee ae Landscape. 
Schooliof Claude Vorrain=-_2--..+.2-..-.2- Harbor at Sunset. 
Jean-lrancois, Villet ss 2228 nee The Bather. 
neodore HOUsseal> = nc ne ae ne Landscape with Boatman. 
A painting by Murillo, “The Return of the Prodigal Son,” given 
by the Avalon Foundation, was accepted by the Board of Trustees 
on December 10, 1948. At the same time the Board accepted the 
portrait of Daniel Boardman, by Ralph Earl, from Mrs. W. Murray 
Crane; “Interior of a Church,” by Pieter Neeffs, from Senator Theo- 
dore Francis Green of Rhode Island; and two paintings, ‘‘Repose,”’ 
by John Singer Sargent, and “Head of a Girl,” by James Abbott 
McNeill Whistler, from Curt H. Reisinger. On December 22, 1948, 
the Board of Trustees accepted from Dr. G. H. A. Clowes a painting, 
“Allegory,” Venetian School about 1500, and from Vladimir Horo- 
witz a painting, ““Head of a Young Girl,” by Renoir. The Board 
of Trustees accepted from Miss Georgia O’Keeffe on March 8, 1949, 
a gift of the following three paintings: 
Artist Title 
Marsden Hartley...) =) 322 al 2 es Se Landscape No. 5. 
Ar Chun GAM ONG 55-285 ee Sane Seeue ess Moth Dance. 
Georgia. Osieetiens. rere oe Ae ee To be selected later. 
