APPENDIX 3 
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 
ties of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1949. 
THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 
The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commis- 
sion was held in the Regents’ Room of the Smithsonian Building, on 
Tuesday, December 7, 1948. 
The members present were: Paul Manship, chairman; Alexander 
Wetmore, secretary (member, ex officio); George Hewitt Myers; 
George H. Edgell; Lloyd Goodrich; John Taylor Arms; Archibald G. 
Wenley, Gifford Beal, and Robert Woods Bliss. Thomas M. Beggs, 
Director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, and John E. Graf, 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, were also present. 
The Commission recommended the reelection of Archibald G. Wen- 
ley, David E. Finley, Eugene E. Speicher, and Paul Manship for the 
usual 4-year period. 
The following officers were reelected for the ensuing year: Paul Man- 
ship, chairman; Robert Woods Bliss, vice chairman; and Dr. Alexander 
Wetmore, secretary. 
The following were reelected members of the executive committee 
for the ensuing year: David E. Finley, chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, 
and Gilmore D. Clarke. Paul Manship, as chairman of the Commis- 
sion, and Dr. Alexander Wetmore, as secretary of the Commission, are 
ex officio members of the executive committee. 
The Secretary summarized the status of exhibition and storage of 
the art objects of the National Collection of Fine Arts which at present 
are housed in space intended for the natural history collections in the 
Natural History Building. <A separate building for the art collections 
is included in the Smithsonian building program, but funds for the 
development of plans have not been made available. 
The following resolution, offered by Mr. Goodrich, was passed unan- 
imously: 
Resolved, That whereas the art collections in the custody of the National Collec- 
tion of Fine Arts are exhibited in an entirely inadequate manner, the Smithsonian 
Art Commission recommends that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 
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