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National Collection of Fine Arts Commission Meeting

The National Collection of Fine Arts Commission met on December 4, 1975 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.  Mr. George Tatum, Vice Chairman, presided.  The meeting was held in the Storage/Study area of the museum.  The following members were present:

Thomas S. Buechner
David E. Finley
Lloyd Goodrich
Walker Hancock
Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr.
August Heckscher 
Thomas C. Howe
Mrs. Jaquelin H. Hume
David Lloyd Kreeger
Abram Lerner
Mrs. Robert A. Magowan
Henry P. McIlhenny
Ogden M. Pleissner
Charles H. Sawyer
Mrs. Otto L. Spaeth
George B. Tatum

The attached memorial on Mr. H. Page Cross, who had been Chairman at the time of his death on August 28, 1975, was read and approved for inclusion in the records of the Commission.

There was an extended discussion of proposed new members for the Commission, and the Director was asked to ascertain the willingness of two of the proposed people to serve.

The Director reported on activities of the NCFA, bringing the report up-to-date on the various Bicentennial projects.  He outlined also those other projects that have proceded with difficulty or not at all because of insufficient funding, including the necessary expansion of work and storage space in the basement (garage), essential conservation projects such as that for the W. H. Johnson paintings and drawings, and an expansion of the fellowship program.

The conservation staff of the NCFA made a presentation explaining the scope and nature of the museum's conservation program.

The accession of works on the attached list was approved.

Transcription Notes:
Transcribed names as single-column list for easier reading, because double-column was there to save space not as a table.