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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  642
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COMMISSION.

December 11, 1924.

To the Board of Regents,
Smithsonian Institution.

The annual meeting of the National Gallery of Art Commission was held in the Regents' Room of the Smithsonian Institution December 9, 1924.   The members present were Mr. Gari Melchers, Chairman; Mr. Herbert Adams, Mr. Joseph H. Gest, Mr. John E. Lodge, Mr. Frank J. Mather, Jr., Mr. Charles Moore, Mr. James Parmelee, Mr. Edward W. Redfield, Mr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. William H. Holmes, Secretary of the Commission.

The annual report of the Secretary of the Commission for 1924 describes briefly the activities of the Gallery for the year mentioning the art works acquired and in prospect and enumerating the several loans of collections to and by the Gallery, also the several temporary exhibits.

Reference was made to the resolution passed by the Board of Regents at the spring meeting referring the problem of the organizing of a Department of Architecture in the Gallery to the Commission for consideration.   At its meeting on December 11th recommendation was made to the Board of Regents that the suggested division be established.   This recommendation the Board approved in principle on December 13th.  So far as reported no definite action has been taken toward the establishment of this division.

Attention was called to the installation during the year of a collection of World War Portraits in the Natural History Building.   There being no available space on the first floor, a large room was screened off on the second floor where the portraits, the nucleus of the contemplated National Portrait Gallery, are well shown.   A list recently made of the portraits in oil and pastel now in possession of the Institution, and in part available for assemblage in the Portrait Gallery, numbers upward of 400.
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