32 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
art gallery in the world in a comparable period. Following the close 
of the exhibition, the custody of the paintings passed from the 
National Gallery of Art to the Department of the Army. 
In accordance with the expressed wishes of the Senate Armed Serv- 
ices Committee and the Department of the Army, a meeting of museum 
and gallery officials was held at the National Gallery of Art on 
April 29, 1948, to prepare plans for an exhibition tour of certain of 
these paintings. Attending the meeting were: David E. Finley, Di- 
rector, National Gallery of Art, presiding; G. H. Edgell, Director, 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.; H. F. Jayne, Vice Director, and 
Dudley T. Easby, Secretary, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 
N. Y.; Fiske Kimball, Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.; Homer Saint-Gaudens, Director, Department of Fine 
Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Daniel Catton Rich, Di- 
rector, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.; William M. Milliken, 
Director, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O.; Edgar P. Richard- 
son, Director, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mich.; Edward S. 
King, Acting Administrator, and David Rosen, Technical Advisor for 
Preservation and Restoration, Walters Gallery, Baltimore, Md.; 
Blake-More Godwin, Director, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, O.; 
Russell A. Plimpton, Director, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minne- 
apolis, Minn.; James W. Foster, Jr., Baltimore Museum of Art, 
Baltimore, Md.; also present were: Col. T. Scott Riggs and Maj. 
Gerard B. Crook, General Staff Corps, Civil Affairs Division, United 
States Army, and Abraham J. Harris, Department of Justice. 
At this meeting a proposed schedule of exhibitions throughout the 
United States was agreed upon, and subsequently confirmed with 
amendments by the Department of the Army. 
In conformity with instructions from the Department of the Army, 
52 of the paintings which were considered most likely to suffer damage 
or deterioration if sent on an exhibition tour were packed for immedi- 
ate shipment back to the American Zone in Germany. These paint- 
ings were chosen by the following committee, which met at the Na- 
tional Gallery of Art on April 27, 1948: John Walker, Chairman, 
Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art; Daniel Catton Rich, Director 
of the Chicago Art Institute; George Stout, Director of the Wor- 
cester Art Museum; Stephen §. Pichetto, Consultant Restorer to the 
National Gallery of Art and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 
and Dr. Ivene Kuehnel, formerly Curator of Paintings of the Kaiser 
Friedrich Museum and currently attached to Military Government 
in the American Zone, Germany. 
The remainder of the paintings were packed and sent on tour in ac- 
cordance with plans approved by the Department of the Army. At 
the Department’s request, the National Gallery of Art agreed to 
supervise technical and professional details involved in sending the 
