APPENDIX 3. 



EEPOKT ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the second annual report on the 

 Freer Gallery of Art for the year ending June 30, 1922. 



THE COLLECTION. 



Work carried on during the year includes the classification and 

 cataloguing of Chinese, Japanese, an^ Tibetan paintings, Chinese 

 tapestries, and Chinese and Japanese pottery ; the preliminary classi- 

 fication of Korean pottery and Chinese and Japanese stone sculp- 

 tures and jades; and the cataloguing of American paintings, draw- 

 ings, and prints (inclusive of both etchings and lithographs). Im- 

 portant progress has been made also in the indispensable preservation 

 work on oil paintings. 



BUILDING AND INSTALLATION. 



Owing to a temporary lack of applicable funds, work on the build- 

 ing and installation was discontinued in July and was not resumed 

 until December. The work accomplished, however, includes the con- 

 tinuation — and in some instances the completion — of undertakings 

 mentioned in the first annual report : The dais in gallery 18 has been 

 rebuilt and stained, the Avails of 15 galleries and 2 corridors have been 

 recolored, all of the storage bags and 27 of the storage boxes for 

 Japanese screens have been completed, the Chinese and Japanese 

 panel storage has been finished and the panels themselves placed in 

 their permanent storage racks. The more important items of the 

 new work undertaken are as follows : The dais in gallery 8 has been 

 removed, terrazzo floor has been laid in the areas thus exposed, and 

 the walls have been covered with canvas. The two large Chinese 

 stone slabs purchased during the previous fiscal year were set in the 

 wall of gallery 9 and repaired, practically all of the Whistler oil 

 painting frames have been repaired and regilded, and 16 storage 

 racks for oil paintings have been constructed. The installation of 

 fly screens has been effected, as has also the correction of defective 

 doors and the reenforcing of the meeting rails of the double-hung 

 windows throughout the basement floor. Bronze light standards 

 have been erected outside of the north and south entrances, the 

 offices have been carpeted and furnished, oiling of the gallery floors 



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