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Hon. Hoffman Philip, Department of State; oil painting, 
"Madonna and Child," attributed to Raphael, from Mr. Thomas 
Be O'Sullivan, 9f Washington; water color, "Rhone Valley,” by 
John M. W. Turner, from Miss Elizabeth Ogden Adams, South 
Lincoln, Massachusettes: and two portraits in oil, Maj. E. 
Alexander Powell, 1919, and Miss Clara J. Gordon, 1916, by 
Wilford Seymour Conrow, received from the artist. 
In May Secretary Walcott, accompanied by the curator 
of the Gallery, visited New York to attend a meeting of the 
American Federation of Arts, on which occasion Doctor Wal- 
cott presented an address on the "National Gallery, Its 
Present Status and Prospects." Visits were made to various 
art museums and to the residence of Rev. A. D. Pell, who 
announced his intention to present to the Gallery a large 
selection from his vast stores of French and other art ob- 
jects. At the close of the year the first installment of 
this collection had reached the United States National Museum 
and its installation was initiated in the north alcove of the 
Gallery. | 
The year marks the inauguration of purchases by the 
Council of the National Academy of Design from the Henry Ward 
Ranger Fund. ‘The first acquisition, a landscape by Bruce Crane 
entitled "December Uplands," was assigned to the Syracuse 
Museum of Art, and under the conditions prescribed by Mr. Ranger 
can be reclaimed by the National Gallery of Art at any time 
