54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



A chief undertaking of the year wasthe preparation of an illustrated 

 catalogue of the collections, which is practically ready for the printer 

 ;it the close of the year. An illustrated catalogue of the Ralph 

 Cross Johnson collection of paintings by old masters, written by 

 Mr. George B. Rose of Little Rock, Ark., was published in the 

 September (1920) number of the journal, Art and Archaeology (Vol. 

 X, No. 3), and copies of this have been on sale during the year in the 

 room devoted to these works. 



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 



FINE ARTS. 



The National Art Committee Exhibition of War Portraits: Signing of the 

 Peace Treaty, 1919, and Portraits of Distinguished Leaders of America 

 and of the Allied Nations. Painted by Eminent American Artists for 

 Presentation to the National Portrait Gallery. National Gallery of Art, 

 under Direction of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, I >. ('., May 

 5 to 22, 1921. Catalogue of the Portraits by Florence N. Levy. 30 pages 

 and rover, illustrated. Irving Press. New York, 1921. Copyright, 1921, by 

 The National Art Committee. 



Lose, George B. The Ralph Cross Johnson Collection in the National Gallery at 

 Washington, l>. C. 24 illustrations. Art and Archaeology, Vol. X, No. 3, 

 Sept. 1920, pp. T. r )-110. 



A critical and apprec at ve rev e\v of the collection of twenty-four old 

 masters of the Florentine, P>oloi;nese. Venetian. Flemish, Dutch, and British 

 schools presented to the National Gallery by Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, of 

 Washington, followed by an editorial announcement of the separate organi- 

 zat'on of the National Gallery of Art, pp. 109-10. 



LIBRARY— THE HUGHES ALCOVE. 



Considerable advance was made during the year in the accumula- 

 tion of an art library, numerous art books and art periodicals having 

 been added to the publications previously acquired by the gallery. 

 By the will of the Rev. Bruce Hughes, of Lebanon, Pa., who died on 

 March 20, 1916, a sum estimated at about $9,000 was bequeathed to 

 the institution. " the sum so received to be invested and the income 

 alone used to found the Hughes Alcove of the said Smithsonian 

 Institute." It is intended to devote this income to the interests of 

 the National Gallery, as the Institution feels that the desire of the 

 testator can most fittingly be accomplished by the establishment and 

 maintenance of an alcove or section in the library of the gallery, 

 for reference works on art winch shall serve as a permanent memorial 

 to the founder. No part of the fund has as yet been expended. 



GALLERY HOUSING. 



The national collection of art works so far as intrusted to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, were first accommodated in the Smithson- 

 ian Building and later in the National Museum Building, now 



