30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
To Artist 
The White House, Washington, D. C.: 
George” Washingtone=2-— = -==---22=——————— Rembrandt Peale (after Pine). 
Wranklin \ Pierce 22242. See G. P. A. Healy. 
James Monroest22o.2 ele e  eeee John Vanderlyn. 
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 
ING YEE 
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens_________-_ Albert P. Ryder. 
EXHIBITIONS 
The following exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of 
Art during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948: 
Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Sixteenth through the Highteenth Centuries. 
Loaned anonymously. Continued from previous fiscal year. June 8 to November 
16, 1947. 
Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exhibition from the gift of Mr. and 
Mrs. J. Watson Webb, New York, N. Y. Continued from previous fiscal year. 
June 13 to October 24, 1947. 
Prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Exhibition of prints from the Rosen- 
wald Collection. October 25, 1947, to April 4, 1948. 
Men of Action of the Naval Services, World War II. A group of war por- 
traits of personnel of the naval services, for eventual installation in the pro- 
posed National Museum of Military and Naval History. November 23 to Decem- 
ber 14, 1947. 
The Art of France in Prints and Books. Exhibition of prints and books from 
the Rosenwald and Widener Collections; also books from the Rosenwald Collec- 
tion in the Library of Congress. December 12, 1947, to March 4, 1948. 
Paintings from the Berlin Museums. Exhibition of paintings brought to this 
country for safekeeping by the Department of the Army and stored at the 
National Gallery of Art. Exhibited at the request of the Department of the 
Army. March 17 to April 25, 1948. 
Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exhibition of prints from the Rosenwald 
Collection; one print from the Hofer Collection. Opened April 6, 1948. 
American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art. Ex- 
hibition of American paintings, featuring a group of portraits from Pocahontas 
to General Hisenhower. Opened May 23, 1948. 
Indigenous Art of the Americas, from the Robert Woods Bliss Collection. 
Continued from the previous year with rearrangements and additions made by 
Mr. Bliss this year. Reopened with changes, May 23, 1948. 
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 
Rosenwald Collection—During the fiscal year 1948 special exhibi- 
tions of prints from the Rosenwald Collection were circulated to the 
following: 
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. : 
Rembrandt Exhibition, 50 etchings, 5 drawings. 
November 18 to December 31, 1947. 
Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Mich. : 
Six Centuries of Prints, 80 prints. 
December, 1947, 
