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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  LIBRARY 
  

  

  The 
  gallery 
  library, 
  by 
  gift, 
  purchase, 
  and 
  subscription, 
  has 
  reached 
  

   a 
  total 
  of 
  upward 
  of 
  1,500 
  volumes, 
  pamphlets, 
  and 
  periodicals. 
  

  

  A 
  portfolio 
  of 
  unframed 
  water 
  color 
  sketches, 
  by 
  William 
  H. 
  

   Holmes, 
  has 
  been 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  artist. 
  

  

  COPYING 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wilbur 
  Dean 
  Hamilton, 
  of 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  fine 
  arts 
  of 
  the 
  

   Massachusetts 
  Normal 
  Art 
  School, 
  Boston, 
  Mass., 
  completed 
  a 
  copy 
  

   of 
  the 
  Romney 
  portrait 
  of 
  John 
  Wesley, 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  John 
  H. 
  

   McFadden 
  collection, 
  which 
  copy 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Wesley 
  room 
  

   in 
  Lincoln 
  College, 
  Oxford, 
  England. 
  The 
  privilege 
  of 
  making 
  the 
  

   copy 
  was 
  granted 
  by 
  the 
  trustees 
  of 
  the 
  collection, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  loan 
  

   to 
  the 
  gallery. 
  

  

  PUBLICATIONS 
  

  

  Holmes, 
  W. 
  H. 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  ending 
  

   June 
  30, 
  1926. 
  Appendix 
  2, 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  30, 
  192G, 
  i)p. 
  50- 
  GO. 
  

  

  ■ 
  Plea 
  for 
  a 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art. 
  Art 
  and 
  Archaeology, 
  Vol. 
  XXIII, 
  

  

  No. 
  2, 
  February, 
  1927, 
  pp. 
  50-69. 
  21 
  illustrations. 
  

  

  Catalogue 
  of 
  an 
  exhibition 
  of 
  oil 
  paintings 
  of 
  Venice 
  from 
  Dawn 
  to 
  Dusk, 
  by 
  

   Herbert 
  Waldron 
  Faulkner, 
  on 
  view 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  room 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   Gallery, 
  Natural 
  History 
  Building, 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Novem- 
  

   ber 
  29 
  to 
  December 
  12, 
  1926. 
  Washington, 
  1926, 
  pp. 
  1-2. 
  

  

  Catalogue 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  paintings 
  and 
  drawings 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  John 
  Ross 
  

   Key 
  (1837-1920), 
  on 
  view 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  room 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery, 
  

   Natural 
  History 
  Building, 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  January 
  15 
  to 
  

   February 
  6, 
  1927. 
  Washington, 
  1927, 
  pp. 
  1-3. 
  

  

  Catalogue 
  of 
  a 
  memorial 
  collection 
  of 
  drawings 
  in 
  red 
  chalk 
  by 
  John 
  Elliott 
  

   (185S-1925) 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Lafayette 
  Escadrille 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  

   others 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  men 
  who 
  fought 
  in 
  the 
  Great 
  War, 
  on 
  view 
  in 
  the 
  

   central 
  room 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery, 
  Natural 
  History 
  Building, 
  United 
  

   States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  February 
  19 
  to 
  March 
  13, 
  1927. 
  Washington, 
  

   1927, 
  pp. 
  1-11. 
  

  

  Respectfully 
  submitted. 
  

  

  W. 
  H. 
  Holmes, 
  Director 
  

   Dr. 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Abbot, 
  

  

  Acting 
  Secretary^ 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

  

  