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[[underline]] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden [[/underline]]

There follows a summary of the annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

The membership of the Board was changed by the following appointments and resignations:

[[underline]]Dorothy Miller[[/underline]] was appointed to serve the remaining term of Taft B. Schreiber, who resigned. (Expiring June 30, 1978)

[[underline]]Sidney Lewis [[/underline]]was appointed to serve the remaining term of George Hamilton, who resigned. (Expiring June 30, 1979)

[[underline]]Theodore Cummings[[/underline]] resigned from the Board effective November 1976.  A replacement is now under consideration.


Approximately 1,350,000 people visited the Hirshhorn Museum between January and December of 1976.  The three millionth visitor arrived on August 13, 1976.

A total of 80 works of art was received by the Museum during 1976, of which 30 were gifts and 50 were purchases.  A list of these works is attached.

The following motion was approved:

VOTED that the Board of Regents accepts the report of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Board of Trustees.