Museum of the American Indian National Campaign. At the 

 time, it was the largest cash contribution to the Smithsonian 

 in its 148-year history. 



In October, the museum released a number of publications 

 and products in conjunction with the opening of the Heye 

 Center. Products included books on each of the three exhibi- 

 tions, a music recording on compact disc and cassette tape, a 

 calendar, a postcard book, and T-shirts. 



The museum began the Native American Expressive Cul- 

 ture Series — on-going public programming that includes sto- 

 rytelling, theater, music, dance, film and video. In the 

 multimedia Resource Center, ten computer stations provide 

 access to resource information about the objects in the exhibi- 

 tions and the indigenous world view. 



During the year, Douglas J. Cardinal Architects, Ltd., in 

 collaboration with Geddes, Brecher, Quails and Cunning- 

 ham Architects, and in conjunction with the museum staff 

 and Native American consultants, developed a conceptual 

 design for the National Museum of the American Indian, 

 which will be constructed on the National Mall after the 

 turn of the century. 



National Portrait Gallery 



Alan Fern, Director 



The National Portrait Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition 

 and study of portraits of people who have made significant 

 contributions to American history and culture and to the 

 study of the artists who created such portraiture. The Gallery 

 sponsors a variety of scholarly and public activities for audi- 

 ences interested in American art and American history. 



Collections Acquisitions 



Acquisitions in the Painting and Sculpture Department in- 

 clude two presidential pottraits: Ronald Sherr's portrait of 

 George Herbert Walker Bush and Jan Woods's bust of Wil- 

 liam Jefferson Clinton. Among the other portraits acquired 

 were Smithsonian Secretary-emeritus Robert McCotmick 

 Adams by Burton Silverman, collector and art dealet Edith 

 Gregor Halpert by Marguerite T Zorach, General Winfield 

 Scott by Robert Walter Weir, and poet Gwendolyn Brooks by 

 Sara S. Miller. The Photographs Department teceived a gift of 

 ninety-nine photographs from the estate of George Tames, 

 Washington photographer for the New York Times from the 

 1940s through the eatly 1980s. Other important photographs 

 include Martin Luther King, Jr. by Dan Weiner, labor leader 

 Andrew Furuseth by Dorothea Lange, American poets Sylvia 

 Plath and Anne Sexton by Rollie McKenna, a group portrait 

 of William Tecumseh Sherman and his generals by Mathew 

 Brady, and a rare carte de visite of the sculptor Edmonia Lewis. 

 Among the Print Department acquisitions are a mezzotint of 



Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale and a drypoint 

 of Henry Marquand by Anders Zorn. 



Research 



The National Portrait Gallery launched its virtual museum as 

 part of the Smithsonian's Home Page on the Internet's World 

 Wide Web and as part of the Smithsonian Online educational 

 service on America Online. Previews of exhibitions, current 

 events, highlights of the permanent collection, Gallery bro- 

 chures, educational programs, and publications are available 

 on both services. Featured by America Online for the Fourth 

 of July holiday, the online image of Rembrandt Peale's famous 

 "Porthole" portrait of George Washington was downloaded by 

 the public neatly 1,400 times. Interested visitors on the Amer- 

 ica Online service may comment, ask questions, converse on 

 message boards, and take part in online chat sessions. 



The Catalog of American Portraits continued its field sur- 

 vey of portraits in public and private collections, cataloging 

 portraits in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, the Norman 

 Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, and portraits of Ameri- 

 cans in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Portraits in the 

 state of Alaska were surveyed with the assistance of a grant 

 from the Smithsonian Women's Committee. The Smithsonian 

 Office of Fellowships and Grants supported two internship 

 projects that added important Native American and Latino bi- 

 ographies to the CAP's multimedia research database. 



The Peale Family Papers project submitted volume four 

 of Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, sub- 

 titled Charles Willson Peale: His Last Years, 1821-1827. to 

 Yale University Press for publication. The staff is continu- 

 ing research for volume 5, The Autobiography of Charles Will- 

 son Peale. and for The Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of 

 Rembrandt Peale. 



The Electronic Research Center became a reality in the 

 NMAA/NPG Library at the end of December. Supported by 

 both the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum 

 of American Art, the Center collects reference sources avail- 

 able in CD-ROM and online formats, as well as maintaining 

 Internet and America Online functions. The Center has biblio- 

 graphic, image-based, and online resources accessible to Li- 

 brary patrons. Some of the titles available are: Art Index 

 (1984-1995); ARTbibliographies Modern on Disc (1984-1994); 

 Artfact (auction price information for both the fine and decora- 

 tive arts, 1986—1995); Select Phone (1995); National Portrait Gal- 

 lery. Smithsonian Institution: Permanent Collection of Notable 

 Americans: and Artnet (an online resource to auction records 

 from 1990 to the present). 



Exhibitions 



In commemoration of the iooth anniversary of the death of 

 Frederick Douglass, the National Portrait Gallery and the Na- 

 tional Park Service co-organized an exhibition on his life and 

 legacy. Featuring paintings, photographs, and memorabilia, 

 "Majestic in His Wrath" opened February 9, 1995, with a re- 



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