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APPROPRIATIONS 



For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary em- 

 ployees, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling 

 expenses, uniforms for guards, and necessary incidental expenses, 

 $32,768 was appropriated. 



THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COMMISSION 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the National Gallery of Art 

 Commission was held at the Smithsonian Institution on December 11, 

 1934. The members present were: Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, who is ex-officio member and also 

 the secretary of the Commission; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., vice 

 chairman; Herbert Adams; Gifford Beal; Charles L. Borie, Jr.; 

 James E. Fraser; Frederick P. Keppel; John E. Lodge; George B. 

 McClellan; Charles Moore; Edmund C. Tarbell; and Mahonri M. 

 Young. Ruel P. Tolman, curator of the division of graphic arts in 

 the United States National Museum and acting director of the 

 National Gallery of Art, was also present. 



The Commission recommended to the Board of Regents the re- 

 election for the succeeding term of 4 years of the following members : 

 Herbert Adams, Gifford Beal, and Charles Moore. 



The following officers were re-elected for the ensuing year : Joseph 

 H. Gest, chairman; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., vice chairman; and 

 Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary; as well as the members of the 

 executive committee : Charles Moore, Herbert Adams, and George B. 

 McClellan. Joseph H. Gest, as chairman of the Commission, and 

 Dr. Charles G. Abbot, as secretary of the Commission, are ex-officio 

 members. 



The following resolution was adopted as an expression of the Com- 

 mission's general policy in connection with gifts or bequests offered 

 with certain undesirable restrictions: 



Resolved, That it is tlie recommeiKlation of the National Gallery of Art 

 Commission that the Smithsonian Institution do not in general accept for the 

 National Gallery of Art gifts or bequests of miscellaneous collections of objects 

 of art when a condition is attached thereto that the objects must be exhibited 

 in perpetuity. 



[Joseph H. Gest, chairman of the National Gallery of Art Commis- 

 sion, died on June 26, 1935, at Cincinnati, Ohio.] 



ART WORKS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 



Accessions of art works by the Smithsonian Institution are as 

 follows : 



Two portraits by George Peter Alexander Healy (1808-1894), of 

 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, 1866, Regent of the Smithsonian 



