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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



The purchases so far made b} 7 the council of the academy are as 

 follows : 



Title. 



1918-19. 



1. December Uplands. 



1919-20. 



2. Evening Ti' lc, Cal- 



ifornia. 



3. Grey Hay 



4. The Rapids 



5. The Orange Bowl. . 



1920-21. 



6. The Flower Girl... 



7. Shrine of the Kain 



Gods. 



8. ThsMoate Range.. 



Artist. 



Bruce Crane 



Win. Ritschel 



YV. Granville-Smith . 

 W. Khun- Schofield.. 

 Anna Fisher 



Date of 

 purchase. 



Helen M. Turner. 

 E. Irving Couse. . 



AldroT. Hibbard. 



9. A Corner in Central Arthur J. E. Powell.. 

 Park. 



Apr. 27,1919 

 Jan. 11,1920 



....do 



May 2, 1920 

 ....do 



Apr. 4,1921 

 ....do 



10. Central Park and 

 the Plaza. 



Win. A. Coffin. 



-do. 

 .do. 



.do. 



Assigned to — 



Syracuse Museum of Art. 



National Gallery. 



Do. 

 Brooklyn Museum. 



Rhode Island School of Design, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 

 Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Mich. 

 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. 



Portland Society of Art, Portland, Me. 

 Mil vaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, 



Wis. 

 Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, 



Tenn. 



The advisory committee of the gallery took up the question of the 

 acceptability of these works, but it was later decided that the ques- 

 tion of acceptance could more appropriately await final consideration 

 until the dates of recall provided for by the bequest, namely, the five- 

 year period beginning ten years after the artist's death in each case. 



THE NATIONAL' PORTRAIT COMMITTEE. 



A second agency of primary importance to the gallery and to 

 American history is found in the organization and activities of the 

 National Portrait Committee. In January, 1919, a number of patri- 

 otic citizens and patrons of art realized that if the United States 

 was to have a pictorial record of the World War it would be neces- 

 saiy to take immediate steps. A number of the distinguished leaders 

 of America and of the Allied Nations were approached and their 

 consent secured for the painting of their portraits by prominent 

 American artists. With the indorsement of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution as custodian of the National Gallery of Art, the American 

 Federation of Arts, and the American Mission to Negotiate Peace, 

 then in session at Paris, the National Portrait Committee came into 

 being for the purpose of carrying out this idea and thus initiating 

 and establishing in Washington a National Portrait Gallery. The 

 members of the committee as organized are : Hon. Henry White, 

 chairman ; Herbert L. Pratt, secretary and treasurer ; Mrs. W. H. 

 Crocker, Robert W. deForest, Abram Garfield, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, 



