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  A]SrNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  192 
  9 
  

  

  PAINTING 
  AND 
  SCUU'TUEE 
  BY 
  AMEKICAN 
  NEX3E0 
  ARTISTS 
  

  

  An 
  exhibition 
  of 
  64 
  paintings 
  and 
  several 
  pieces 
  of 
  sculpture, 
  the 
  

   work 
  of 
  American 
  negro 
  artists, 
  was 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  foyer 
  of 
  the 
  

   museum 
  from 
  May 
  16 
  to 
  27, 
  1929. 
  This 
  collection 
  was 
  shown 
  in 
  New 
  

   York 
  City 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  annual 
  William 
  E. 
  Harmon 
  awards 
  

   for 
  distinguished 
  achievement 
  among 
  negroes. 
  It 
  was 
  brought 
  to 
  

   Washington 
  under 
  the 
  patronage 
  of 
  the 
  committee 
  on 
  race 
  relations 
  

   of 
  the 
  Washington 
  Federation 
  of 
  Churches 
  and 
  under 
  the 
  immediate 
  

   supervision 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Anson 
  Phelps 
  Stokes, 
  canon 
  of 
  Washington 
  

   Cathedral, 
  chairman 
  of 
  the 
  committee, 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Emmett 
  J. 
  Scott, 
  sec- 
  

   retary-treasurer 
  of 
  Howard 
  University, 
  secretary. 
  Invitation 
  cards 
  

   were 
  issued 
  by 
  the 
  gallery 
  and 
  a 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  collection 
  was 
  sup- 
  

   plied 
  by 
  the 
  committee. 
  

  

  REINSTALLATION 
  OF 
  COLLECTIONS 
  

  

  The 
  two-feathered 
  Serpent 
  Column 
  models, 
  the 
  mutilated 
  originals 
  

   of 
  which 
  are 
  still 
  in 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  portal 
  of 
  the 
  Pyramid 
  Temple 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  " 
  Castillo," 
  or 
  castle, 
  in 
  Chichen 
  Itza, 
  Yucatan, 
  were 
  removed 
  

   from 
  the 
  lobby 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  floor, 
  thus 
  taking 
  their 
  place 
  with 
  the 
  

   archeological 
  collections 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  pertain. 
  The 
  space 
  at 
  the 
  east 
  

   end 
  of 
  the 
  lobby 
  thus 
  made 
  vacant 
  is 
  now 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  handsome 
  

   mantelpiece 
  and 
  fireplace, 
  by 
  Richardson, 
  transferred 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   when 
  the 
  residence 
  of 
  Benjamin 
  H. 
  Warder 
  was 
  dismantled 
  in 
  1924. 
  

  

  THE 
  ALFRED 
  DUANE 
  PELL 
  COLLECTION 
  

  

  In 
  April, 
  1929, 
  a 
  large 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  Alfred 
  Duane 
  Pell 
  collection 
  

   which, 
  due 
  to 
  lack 
  of 
  space 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery, 
  had 
  been 
  installed 
  

   temporarily 
  in 
  the 
  Arts 
  and 
  Industries 
  Building, 
  was 
  transferred 
  to 
  

   the 
  Pell 
  alcove 
  at 
  the 
  north 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  gallery. 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  busts 
  of 
  

   Sevres 
  biscuit 
  ware 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  collection, 
  remains 
  for 
  the 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  in 
  the 
  Arts 
  and 
  Industries 
  Building. 
  A 
  catalogue 
  of 
  this 
  mate- 
  

   rial, 
  996 
  numbers, 
  was 
  compiled 
  by 
  Miss 
  Helen 
  A. 
  Olmsted, 
  of 
  the 
  

   department 
  of 
  arts 
  and 
  industries, 
  National 
  Museum, 
  under 
  the 
  

   expert 
  supervision 
  of 
  Dr. 
  S. 
  W. 
  Woodhouse. 
  

  

  ART 
  "WORKS 
  RECEI\TED 
  DURING 
  THE 
  TEAR 
  

  

  Accessions 
  of 
  art 
  works 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  subject 
  to 
  

   transfer 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  on 
  approval 
  of 
  the 
  advisory 
  com- 
  

   mittee 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  Commission, 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Portrait 
  bust 
  in 
  bronze 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Elihu 
  Root, 
  by 
  James 
  Eaiie 
  

   Eraser, 
  N. 
  A. 
  A 
  replica 
  of 
  the 
  bust 
  made 
  for 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Corpora- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  (Donor 
  not 
  ascertained.) 
  

  

  