The Prints Department acquired Joseph Stella, self-portrait, 

 silverpoint, gouache, and crayon on paper, circa 1940; Osceola 

 of Florida by George Catlin, hand-colored lithograph, 1838; 

 and Josephine Baker by Paolo Garretto, watercolor and 

 gouache collage with wood-veneer feathers, 1935. The follow- 

 ing were received as gifts: James Thurber, self-portrait, pencil 

 on paper, circa 1930s, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benchley 

 III; 77 ink caricatures of film stars by Joe Grant, gift of Jenni- 

 fer Castrupt and Carol Grubb; 14 drawings by Ray Kinstler, 

 gift of Ray Kinstler; 33 animation drawings of film stars, gift 

 of Stuart and Miriam Reisbord; and 6 drawings by Edward 

 Sorel, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sorel. 



Collections Management 



With funds from the 1993 Research Equipment Pool, an infra- 

 red reflectography video system with accompanying computer- 

 imaging capabilities was acquired jointly by the National 

 Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art 

 for the shared Conservation Laboratory. This equipment will 

 expand the ongoing technical examination of major works in 

 the collection. The fund also provided money to obtain a re- 

 flection densitometer and a colorimeter, to measure the effects 

 of light damage to works of art, and a new deionized water 

 system to provide filtered water for testing and treatment. 

 The National Portrait Gallery acquired the ability to 

 scan both black-and-white and color photographs up to 8 x 

 10 inches in size. From the resulting data files, black-and- 

 white or color dye sublimination prints can be produced 

 immediately, reducing the Gallery's reliance on commercial 

 laboratories. These images will also be used in the compu- 

 terized collection management file, and in publications in 

 hard copy and electronic media. 



Research 



The Catalog of American Portraits continued its field survey 

 ot portraits in public and private collections, cataloging major 

 collections in the state of Kansas, as well as the Clark Art In- 

 stitute in Massachusetts, the New York Genealogical and Bio- 

 graphical Society, the Seattle Art Museum, the Westmoreland 

 Museum and the Woodmere Art Museum in Pennsylvania, 

 the Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C., and the collec- 

 tion of American portraits belonging to Versailles in France. 

 With the assistance of a grant from the SI Women's Commit- 

 tee, the CAP completed biographical research on sitters and 

 artists represented in Puerto Rican collections. CAP staff con- 

 tinued to add digitized images to its interactive research 

 database. 



The Gallery's Peale Family Papers project completed its work 

 on Volume 4 of the selected papers of this famous artistic family 

 and prepared the manuscript for publication. The staff continues 

 work on Peak's Autobiography (Volume 5) and the catalogue 

 rauonne of the work of Rembrandt Peale (1778— 1860). 



The Library received 17 Paige boxes of ephemeral material 

 from the Ellen G.Johnson estate. Professor Johnson was one 



of Oberlin College's legendary professors, a well-known histo- 

 rian and critic of modern art. This research file was her life- 

 time accumulation, and an important addition to our 

 extensive Vertical File Collection. 



Exhibitions 



"VanDerZee, Photographer (1886—1983)." October 22, 1993- 

 February 13, 1994. This exhibition featured more than 100 pho- 

 tographs by one of the most important African American 

 photographers of the twentieth century, James VanDerZee, 

 who is best known for the photographs he took in New York's 

 Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. A reduced version of this 

 exhibition will be circulated by SITES beginning in 1995. 

 James VanDerZee and His Contemporaries, a symposium for 

 general audiences on African American photographers in 

 America, 1920—1950, was held in connection with the 

 exhibition. 



"To the President: Folk Portraits by the People." December 

 10, 1993-September 5, 1994. Since George Washington's first 

 administration, gifts of generosity and affection have been be- 

 stowed upon our heads of state. Spanning the last sixty years, 

 and encompassing Presidents from Hoover to Clinton, this ex- 

 hibition showcased fifty-six one-of-a-kind creations. Included 

 were a coconut carving of Harry S. Truman; a figurine of 

 Franklin D. Roosevelt made of pipe cleaners, bean pods, and a 

 Brazil nut; and a matchstick carving of Richard M. Nixon. 



"From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from 

 the National Portrait Gallery, London." February 25— April 24, 

 1994. Chosen from the rich collections of the National Por- 

 trait Gallery's sister institution in London, this exhibition fea- 

 tured portraits of some of the most important and intriguing 

 figures in Britain's history by major British artists of the past 

 four hundred years. 



"Reporting the War: the Journalistic Coverage of World 

 War II." April 22-September 5, 1994. This exhibition showed 

 the experiences and perspectives of thirty-five men and 

 women, such as Edward R. Murrow, John Hersey, Bill Maul- 

 din, and Margaret Bourke-White, who brought the story of 

 World War II home to the American people. 



"Art and the Camera, 1900— 1940: Pictonalist Photographs 

 from the National Portrait Gallery." June 10-December II, 

 1994. This exhibition follows the development of pictonalist 

 photography from the turn of the century through the 1930s. 

 Beginning with the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward 

 Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, and Clarence H. White, who 

 helped establish photography as a fine art under Stieglitz's 

 leadership, the exhibition also encompasses the work of the 

 second generation, including Doris Ulmann, Nickolas Muray, 

 and Edward Weston. This exhibition is the first in a series. 

 Other topics will include a general history of portrait photog- 

 raphy, a concentrated look at portraits from photojournalism, 

 and an intensive study of the first decade of photographic 

 images. 



A major exhibition on the life and art of the Peale Family, 

 "The Peale Legacy," is being developed by the staff of the 



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