48 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922. 



(iermany. The members of the committee as organized are: Hon. 

 Henry White (chairman), Herbert L. Pratt (secretary and treas- 

 urer), Mrs. W. H. Crocker, Eobeit W. de Forest, Abram Garfield, 

 Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Arthur W. Meeker. J. Pierpont Morgan, 

 Charles P. Taft, Charles D. Walcott, and Henry Frick (since de- 

 censed). 



Under this arrangement 20 portraits were painted and assembled 

 in the Xational Gallery during the mcmth of May, 1921. Later these 

 were turned over to the American Federation of Arts for purposes of 

 public exhibition, and at the close of the year they had been showii in 

 the following cities: Princeton, N. J.; New Haven, Conn.; Boston, 

 Mass.; Rochester, N. Y. ; Cleveland, Ohio; "Williamstown, Mass.; 

 Amherst, Mass. ; Buffalo. X. Y. ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Indianapolis, 

 Ind. ; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Detroit. INIich. : Youngstown, Ohio; and Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. 



The portrait of Herbert Clark Hoover, by Edmund C. Tarbell, has 

 since been added to the number. 



THE INIcFADDEX COLLECTION. 



At the close of the year preliminary steps had been taken toward 

 the acceptance by the gallery of the loan of the McFadden collection 

 of British masterpieces, comprising li notable examples of the work 

 of Kichard Parkes Bonington : John Constable, R. A. ; Davis Cox ; 

 John Crome; Thomas Gainsborough, R. A.; George Henry Harlow; 

 William Hogarth ; John Hoppner, R- A. ; Sir Thomas LaAvrence, P. 

 R. A. ; John Linnell, sr. : George Morland ; Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A. : 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds, P. R. A.; George Romney; James Stark; 

 George Stubbs, R. A.; Sir John Watson Gordon, R. A.; J. M. AY 

 Turner, R. A. ; and Richard Wilson, R. A. These paintings were ac- 

 quired by John H. McFadden, Esq.. of Philadelphia, Pa., recently 

 deceased, during his lifetime, and by his will left in trust to the citj 

 (if Philadelphia and to be intrusted to its custodianship when the 

 Municipal Museum now in course of construction is completed. Not- 

 Avithstanding the fact that there is much shortage of storage space in 

 the halls occupied by the national collections, the acceptance of this 

 i-icli collection for a limited period is regarded with much favor. 



DISTIilFiUTIONS. 



Loans have been withdrawn by owners as follows: Portrait of 

 Arthur Spicer, and portrait of Mary Brockerbrough Spicer, his wife, 

 by Sir Peter Lely, lent by Miss Lucy Stuart Fitzhugh, were with- 



