SECRETARY’S REPORT 25 
ATTENDANCE 
There were 2,159,435 visitors to the Gallery during the fiscal year, 
an average daily attendance of about 5,932. ‘This was an increase of 
711,397 over the total of 1,448,038 visitors in the previous fiscal year. 
During the period between March 17, 1948, and April 25, 1948, when 
the paintings from the Berlin museums were on exhibition, a total of 
964,970 people visited the Gallery. On one day, April 11, 1948, the 
Gallery attendance set an all-time high of 67,490. 
ACCESSIONS 
There were 1,360 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 
A special opening was held February 1, 1948, to exhibit recent ad- 
ditions to the Ralph and Mary Booth Collection, consisting of eight 
paintings by Italian and German artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
centuries. These paintings were presented to the Gallery by Mrs. 
Ralph Harman Booth, of Detroit, and their acceptance was confirmed 
by the Board of Trustees on October 13, 1947. Also exhibited at the 
same time were previous donations to the same collection. <A special 
catalog was prepared for the opening. The paintings received were: 
Artist Title 
Boltratio ss sata eee ee Portrait of a Youth. 
Melita ee es ee ee See Madonna and Child. 
Mintorettol= ss. == see Pe ee Madonna of the Stars. 
Cranach; Lucas, the Hlder= 2-2 = =-2 A Prince of Saxony. 
Cranach} lucas; the Hider A Princess of Saxony. 
Strigel sss es fo eee re bs Pa The Mayor of Memmingen. 
Strige asia 2s ee ee I be = The Wife of the Mayor of Memmingen. 
Kremer 2220s.) 27 Ue ee aches Portrait of a Nobleman. 
The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust presented to 
the Gallery 113 portraits, which were accepted by the Board on De- 
cember 22, 1947. The gift contains a provision for the transfer of por- 
traits, in certain circumstances, to a National Portrait Gallery, when 
and if established. The paintings areas follows: 
Artist Title 
TORNVHeSSCliUShe = oe eT Thomas Johnson. 
RembrandGe Leal cheeses aie eee George Washington (after Pine). 
WOUZIAS VO less eee eT es Abraham Lincoln. 
Johny James! Audubon (@?)ie sees 2-2 Portrait of a Girl. 
Ashersb sD urard sa ies See ee Gouverneur Kemble. 
UEIGoeY LONE MOA I William Clark Frazer. 
JaAcopwHichh oli] eee James P. Smith. 
Charlesmloringshiliot= eee Self-Portrait. 
