18 ANNUAL REPUKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, l;>22. 



loaned Ijv the artist through Mr. Walter M. Grant, of New York 

 City. 



Preliminary steps had been taken at the end of the year toward 

 the acceptance of a rich collection of British masterpieces brought 

 together by the late John H. McFadden. of Philadelphia. The col- 

 lection comin-ises 44 notable examples of the work of nineteen British 

 artists, and the acceptance of this valuable loan is regarded with 

 much favor. 



A number of paintings were acquired from the income of the 

 Henry Ward Ranger bequest and assigned to various art institutions 

 throughout the country. The terms of this bequest stipulate that 

 any of the art works so acquired may be claimed during a certain 

 period after the artist's death by the National Gallery of Art, 

 remaining thereafter the property of the National Gallery.* The 

 selection and distribution of these purchases is entrusted to the 

 National Academj' of Design. 



The income from the Bruce Hughes Ijequest is to be used to estab- 

 lish and maintain a section of the librarjT^ of the National Gallery 

 for reference works of art, to be known as the Hughes alcove. Dur- 

 ing the 3'ear the first purchases were made from this fund. An 

 illustrated catalogue of the art works of the gallery was prepared 

 and submitted to the printer during the year, but on June 30, 1922, 

 had not been published. A lecture on the National Gallery, illus- 

 trated by 75 slides mostly in color, was prepared, and is to be placed 

 at . the disposal of persons throughout the country who desire to 

 present it. 



The first annual meeting of the National Gallery of Art Com- 

 mission was held on December 6, 1921. Reports of the committees 

 were presented and many important matters relating to the gallery 

 were discussed, among them the urgent need of a National Gallery 

 Building and the i)roblem of the acceptance of proffered works of art. 



P^REER GALLERY OF ART. 



Work during the year on the collections of the Freer Gallery 

 of Art included chiefly the classification and cataloguing of Chinese, 

 Japanese, and Tibetan paintings, Chinese tapestries, and Chinese and 

 Japanese pottery; the preliminarj' classification of Korean pottery 

 and Chinese and Japanese stone sculptures and jades: and the 

 cataloguing of American paintings, drawings, and prints. 



Progress has been made also on completing certain portions of the 

 interior of the building and on the installation of the collections. 

 Miss Grace Dunham Guest was appointed assistant curator on Janu- 

 ary 1, 1922, and Mr. Carl W. Bishop associate curator, April 9, 1922. 

 Miss Guest sailed for Europe on June 24, 1922, to represent the 

 Freer Gallery at the double centennial meeting of the Societe Asia- 



