Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution

Record Unit 311
National Collection of Fine Arts,
Office of the Director,
Records,
1892-1960

By William R. Massa, Jr., and Tammy L. Peters

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Introduction

Historical Note

Chronology

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. General Correspondence, 1892-1964, and undated

  Series 2. National Gallery of Art Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Art Commission, and Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission, 1908-1960

  Series 3. 1892-1960National Gallery of Art and National Collection of Fine Arts Administrative Records, 1901-1952

  Series 4. Exhibition Photographs, undated

  Series 5. Exhibition Materials, 1906-1975

  Series 6. Log Books, 1937-1950

  Series 7. Invoices, 1905-1920

INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL NOTE

The history of the National Gallery of Art (later named the National Collection of Fine Arts) begins well before the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences was established in 1816; and John Varden founded his own museum, later called the Washington Museum, in 1829. These two organizations eventually merged with the National Institution for the Promotion of Science, created in 1840, and incorporated by Congress as the National Institute in 1842. The National Institute displayed its art works in the newly-constructed Patent Office Building, under the care of John Varden. It boasted a large collection of John Mix Stanley and Charles Bird King Indian portraits.

When the Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846, Congress authorized its Regents to collect "all objects of art and of foreign and curious research." Although art did not receive much focus until the early twentieth century, the collection slowly grew. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, purchased a large collection of George Perkins Marsh etchings and engravings in 1849. In 1858 government-owned art works previously shown in the Patent Building were removed to the west wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building ("Castle"), and in 1862, when the National Institute charter expired, its collections were transferred to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's small art collection suffered a great setback in 1865, when most of the collection displayed on the second floor of the Castle was destroyed by fire. Surviving works were removed; prints and drawings were stored at the Library of Congress, and paintings and sculptures at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (in the building now home to the Renwick Gallery).

Private contributions helped to rebuild the Smithsonian's art gallery. Most notably, Mrs. Joseph Harrison presented the Institution with a collection of George C. Catlin Indian paintings in 1879, and the new works were shown in the Castle and in the newly-completed National Museum Building. In 1896 the remainder of the Smithsonian collection was recalled from the Library of Congress and the Corcoran by Secretary Samuel P. Langley, and was added to the Catlin collection in the Castle and National Museum Buildings. Langley also created an "Art Room" on the second floor of the Castle, which displayed reproductions of paintings, mostly portraits, by Old Masters, and a frieze of Parthenon reliefs in plaster around the room.

At the turn of the century, however, a national gallery still did not exist in Washington, and pressure increased from outside the Smithsonian to create such an organization. President Theodore Roosevelt campaigned for a National Gallery, but Congress failed to act on his request in 1904. In 1903 Harriet Lane Johnston, President James Buchanan's niece and lady of the White House during his administration, bequeathed her large collection to a "national gallery of art." The trustees of her estate refused to release her collection until such a gallery existed, and a legal battle ensued. In 1905 the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the Smithsonian collection fell within the description of a national gallery, and the Johnston collection was delivered to the Institution in 1906. The nucleus of the National Gallery consisted of the Johnston Collection of European and American art and the William T. Evans Collection of contemporary American art (added in 1907 with President Theodore Roosevelt's influence). The new additions greatly expanded the Gallery's holdings, but its growth would be severely hampered by the Smithsonian's lack of funds and an unwillingness to begin and support new ventures.

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) was administered under the United States National Museum's (USNM) Department of Anthropology. William Henry Holmes (1846-1933), artist, topographer, archeologist, and geologist, was named first Curator of the NGA, in addition to his duties as Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Chief (1902-1909), and later as Curator of the Department of Anthropology (1910-1920). Holmes was a part of the Smithsonian most of his life. He was born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the same year as the Institution's founding. A teacher and graduate of McNeely Normal School (1870) in Hopedale, Ohio, Holmes moved to Washington, D.C., in 1871 to study art under Theodor Kaufmann. During his studies he became acquainted with another Kaufmann student, Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry. On her suggestion, he visited the Smithsonian. Ornithologist Jose Zeledon noticed Holmes as he was sketching two birds on exhibit, and Zeledon introduced Holmes to Fielding Bradford Meek, paleontologist and stratigrapher of state and federal surveys. Impressed with his drawings, Meek immediately hired Holmes as an illustrator.

In his first years with the Smithsonian, Holmes joined Ferdinand V. Hayden's U.S. Survey of the Territories as an artist-topographer (1872) and was later appointed assistant geologist (1874). This work inspired his career as an archeologist and his interest in Southwestern cliff dwellings. Between 1880 and 1889 Holmes worked with the U.S. Geological Survey on the Charles Dutton expedition to the Grand Canyon, while also serving as Honorary Curator of Aboriginal Ceramics for the USNM. Holmes achieved great respect for his scientific knowledge and artistic talent. By 1889 he was named Director of the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology.

In 1894 Holmes moved to Chicago to manage the BAE exhibitions at the Field Columbian Museum and to teach anthropic geology at the University of Chicago. During this time he traveled with the Allison V. Armour expedition to the Yucatan. His stay in Chicago lasted until 1897 when he returned to the Smithsonian as Head Curator of the Department of Anthropology. In 1902 he resigned to become the BAE Chief.

Holmes was the natural choice for the Gallery's first Curator. An accomplished artist and advocate of the arts, he was often consulted on questions of exhibition and art before the NGA existed. Holmes can be placed within the tradition of American artist-scientists exemplified by Thomas Jefferson and Charles Willson Peale. His sketches of natural history specimens were highly regarded and are still used by scientists today. As a painter, Holmes is grouped in the "Washington Landscape School." His style appears impressionistic (especially his later work), although he would have rejected that label; Holmes was artistically conservative, and spoke against the aberrations of such artists as Matisse. Leila Mechlin, Washington art critic, considered him one of the best watercolorists in the country.

William Henry Holmes, circa 1918.

During his tenure with the National Gallery, the collections grew considerably, adding the Johnston and Evans Collections, as well as the A. R. and M. H. Eddy Collection of miniatures and paintings (1918), the Ralph Cross Johnson and Alfred Duane Pell Collections of European masters (1919), the Henry Ward Ranger bequest (1920), and the John Gellatly Collection (1929), a significant gift of American Renaissance works, decorative arts, and European masters. Holmes also saw the addition of the National Portrait Committee, formed in 1919 to document America's role in World War I.

Space for the national art works was always an issue for the Gallery. Holmes continually lobbied for a separate building to house the Gallery, appealing to America's patriotism and belief in civilization. In its early years, collections were housed in designated areas throughout the Castle and the National Museum Building. When the new museum building, now the Natural History Building, was completed in 1910, the Gallery was allowed space in its central skylighted hall, and a small opening was held March 17, 1910. This, however, was inadequate, and limited both the Smithsonian's art and natural history interests. Donors often hesitated to give to the Gallery due to these space limitations. In 1923 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led a Congressional motion to set aside space on the Mall east of the Natural History Building for a new American art and history building. The Smithsonian was obligated to raise funds for construction. The Regents raised $10,000 for initial planning costs, and commissioned Freer architect Charles A. Platt to design the new museum. National organizations, most significantly women's clubs, helped campaign for a Gallery building, but did not raise the necessary monies.

In 1920, the Regents established the National Gallery of Art as a separate Smithsonian bureau. Holmes ended his ties with the National Museum and became the Gallery's first Director. As head of the NGA for nearly thirty years, Holmes assembled a remarkable program of exhibitions, organized the meager and scattered collections, and remained committed to the artistic community. He was a member of several art organizations, including the Washington Water Color Club, and was a charter member of the Cosmos Club, in which he promoted art interests.

Holmes retired from the National Gallery in 1932 and died in 1933. He was succeeded by Ruel Pardee Tolman (1878-1954). Tolman was born in Brookfield, Vermont, and educated in California, where he studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, the Los Angeles School of Art and Design, and the University of California at Berkeley. Tolman moved to Washington, D.C., in 1902, where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art (1902-1905) and at the National Academy of Design in New York (1906). He taught at the Corcoran between 1906 and 1918 and was employed in the Graphic Arts Division of the USNM, where he eventually became Curator. He remained with Graphic Arts when he was named Acting Director of the NGA (1932-1946); and later resigned his curatorship to become Director of NGA (1946-1948).

In the late 1930s Andrew Mellon donated his considerable collection for a new gallery of art. In 1937 his collection became the National Gallery of Art, administered by an independent board of trustees, in cooperation with the Smithsonian, and housed in a new building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue. The former National Gallery was renamed the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), with Tolman continuing as Acting Director and art works remaining in the Natural History Building "art hall." From the 1930s forward, the NCFA focused more exclusively on American art, and the new National Gallery concerned itself primarily with European Masters.

Tolman resigned from the NCFA in 1948, succeeded by Thomas M. Beggs. During Beggs's administration (1948-1964), Alice Pike Barney, Washington painter, donated part of her collection (1951), which became the core of an extensive lending program later established by Natalie Clifford Barney and Mrs. Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and her Sheridan Circle studio home for meeting purposes (1960).

In 1957 the NCFA, still without a home of its own, was granted use of the Old Patent Office Building, scheduled for demolition but preserved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The NCFA and the Portrait Gallery were transferred to the Patent Office Building in 1962 and opened on May 6, 1968. NCFA portraits were delegated to the Portrait Gallery, decorative arts to the new National Museum of History and Technology, and other works to various Smithsonian bureaus. In 1972 Smithsonian-owned exhibits of crafts and design were removed from storage in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the U.S. Court of Claims into the new Renwick Gallery.

CHRONOLOGY

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
General Correspondence, 1892-1964, and undated

This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning Gallery administration and promotion. Of special note are letters between Holmes and Rathbun relating to NGA building space and the March 17, 1910, opening. Also included are public solicitations for advice and service. The young National Gallery of Art answered many questions of varying significance, including inquiries about art restoration and identification, and pleas made to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Depression to buy private art works from financially desperate owners.

Arranged alphabetically.

Box 1 of 44

Folder	1		Aa-Al, 1909-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	2		Am-Ang, 1910-1948. Includes promotional material on Anglo-American Exposition, London, 1914. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	3		Ans-Art, 1910-1948. Includes correspondence with Antiques magazine. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	4		As-Ay, 1909-1948
Folders	5-7		Abbot, Charles G., 1924-1928, 1936-1944, 1946
Folder	8		Adler, Cyrus, 1905-1910, 1915
Folder	9		Agriculture, U.S. Department of, 1946, 1948
Folder	10		American Art Annual, 1910-1919, 1921-1926, 1929, 1932, 1935-1936, 1943-1944. See also American Federation of Arts and Florence N. Levy.
Folder	11		American Art Association, 1937

Box 2 of 44

Folder	1		American Art Research Council, 1943
Folder	2		American Colonization Society, 1910, 1916
Folder	3		American Federation of Arts, 1910-1911, 1913-1919
Folder	4		American Federation of Arts, 1920-1925, 1936-1937, 1947. See also Leila Mechlin and American Art Annual in this series, and Series 5 for exhibitions by the Federation in 1922 and 1938.
Folder	5		American Museum of Natural History, 1904-1905, 1909
Folder	6		Antiques (magazine), 1937-1938, 1941. See also box 1, folder 3.
Folder	7		Applington, Kate A., 1907-1908
Folder	8		Archambault, A. Margaretta, 1941-1947
Folder	9		Art Institute of Chicago, 1906-1907, 1909-1910, 1916-1918, 1934, 1941, 1944. See also under Radio Programs in this series.
Folder	10		Art Quarterly, 1938-1944
Folder	11		Arts and Decoration, 1912-1913, 1919
Folder	12		Ba, 1906-1948
Folder	13		Be-Bj, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 3 of 44

Folder	1		Bl-Bo, 1907-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Br, 1904-1948
Folder	3		Bu-By, 1910-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	4		Berenson, Bernard, 1910
Folder	5		Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1908, 1919-1920, 1938
Folder	6		Bolton, Theodore, 1935-1947, and undated
Folder	7		Born, Wolfgang, 1945-1948. Note on original folder reads: June 9, 1948, Dr. Born's address until September, 35 Hamilton Place, Apt. 504, N.Y., 31, N.Y.
Folder	8		Brent, John Carroll, undated. Includes excerpts from two Brent letters, 1844, concerning art sentiment preceding the establishment of the Smithsonian.
Folder	9		Brewington, Lt. Com. M. V., 1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	10		Bryant, H. S., 1926-1927, 1929, 1937-1938, 1942-1948
Folder	11		Bury, Edmund, 1932-1933, 1935-1939, 1942-1947
Folder	12		Ca, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 4 of 44

Folder	1		Ce-Ch, 1912-1944. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Ci-Cl, 1907-1940. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	3		Cob-Com, 1908-1947
Folder	4		Con-Cox, 1907-1946. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	5		Cr-Cv, 1907-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	6		Capitol, Architect of the, 1925, 1941, 1946-1947. Includes correspondence with David Lynn. See also Charles E. Fairman.
Folder	7		Capitol Restorations, 1942-1944
Folder	8		Carnegie Institute, 1910, 1912, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1923
Folder	9		Carolina Art Association, 1934-1936. See also Anna Wells Rutledge and Robert N. S. Whitelaw.
Folder	10		Carson, Marian S., 1943-1945. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	11		Carwithen, Bertha T., 1946-1948

Box 5 of 44

Folder	1		Chytil, V., 1930-1931. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Civil Service Commission, U.S., 1944
Folder	3		College Art Association of America, 1936, 1939-1947
Folder	4		Colli, Mary, 1910, 1912-1913. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	5		Columbian Exposition, Bogota, 1937-1938
Folder	6		Commerce, U.S. Department of, 1936-1937, 1940-1942. Concerns standards for artists' oil paints and acidity tests on canvas.
Folder	7		Commerford, Mathias F., 1947
Folder	8		Conroy, Alphonse J., 1942-1944, 1946. Includes photographs of miniature works of art.
Folder	9		Corcoran Gallery of Art and School, 1907-1908, 1912, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1925-1926, 1928, 1930-1931, 1936-1940, 1947-1948
Folder	10		Cornelius, Brother, 1940, 1943-1944, 1947
Folder	11		Corning Glass Works, 1935-1936, 1943. Includes correspondence with Frederick Carder and a photograph of a work of art.
Folder	12		Da, 1907-1948
Folder	13		De, 1909-1948
Folder	14		Di, 1908-1947

Box 6 of 44

Folder	1		Do, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Dr-Dy, 1910-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	3		Dahlgreen, Charles W., 1941, 1945-1947. Includes The Smithsonian Institution Edition of Etchings & Drypoints by Charles W. Dahlgreen (catalogue), 1946.
Folders	4-8		DeAtley, Charles Everard, 1925, 1942-1948, and undated. Consists of requests for photographs.

Box 7 of 44

Folder	1		Deavenport, M. Gertrude, 1941-1942, 1945, 1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Detail (Records of Business Trips): Museums in Michigan, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Massachusetts, 1933-1934
Folder	3		Detail (Records of Business Trips): New England, 1934
Folder	4		Detail (Records of Business Trips): Charleston, SC, 1935. Concerns miniature works of art.
Folder	5		Detail (Records of Business Trips): Detroit, 1935
Folder	6		Detail (Records of Business Trips): New York City, 1935. Concerns opening of Cecilia Beaux Exhibition at The Society of Arts and Letters and miniatures.
Folder	7		Detail (Records of Business Trips): Syracuse and Baltimore, 1936
Folder	8		Detail (Records of Business Trips): Chapel Hill and Charlotte, NC, 1936-1937, and Charleston, SC, 1936
Folder	9		Detroit Publishing Company, 1909-1913, 1916-1917. Includes copy of Catalogue of Paintings and Other Art Objects Exhibited on the Occasion of the Opening of the Gallery in the New Building of the United States National Museum, March 17, 1910, with a list of negatives and color plates made for Detroit Publishing in June 1910.
Folder	10		Dorsey, Harry W., 1910, 1912, 1917, 1921-1924, 1931, 1933-1934, 1936-1945, 1948
Folder	11		duPont de Nemours & Company, E. I., 1936-1937, 1939-1942, 1945
Folder	12		E, 1907-1948
Folder	13		Eastman Kodak Company, 1939-1942, 1944
Folder	14		Emery School Art Co., 1910-1911

Box 8 of 44

Folder	1		Fa-Fl, 1892, 1910-1948
Folder	2		Fo-Fu, 1899, 1909-1948
Folder	3		Fairman, Charles E., 1913, 1926, 1929, 1932-1938, 1944
Folder	4		Ferris, J. L. Gerome, 1934, 1937
Folder	5		Fielding, Mantle, 1934, 1936
Folder	6		Finley, David E., 1935, 1937-1938
Folder	7		Fischer, Victor G., 1921-1925
Folder	8		Fiske, Louis R., 1943. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	9		Fitzgerald, Riter, 1910-1911, 1913-1914, 1916
Folder	10		Fogg Art Museum, 1913, 1934
Folder	11		Freer Gallery of Art, 1905, 1909-1910, 1913-1914, 1917, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1930-1932, 1935, 1937-1938, 1943, 1947. Includes copy of a memorandum by Cyrus Adler concerning a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt on the Freer gift (1905).
Folder	12		Freer Gallery of Art Time Books, 1927, 1931
Folder	13		Frick Art Reference Library, 1921-1922, 1934-1935, 1937, 1944-1946, 1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	14		Ga-Gie, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 9 of 44

Folder	1		Gil-Gra, 1909-1948
Folder	2		Gre-Gu, 1892, 1909-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	3		Gant, Mrs. George P., 1948
Folder	4		Garmendia, Karle, 1948
Folder	5		Geare, Randolph Iltyd, 1910-1911, 1913-1915. Concerns distribution of the United States National Museum Bulletin #70, The National Gallery of Art by Richard Rathbun.
Folder	6		General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1923-1927. Correspondence primarily with Rose V. S. Berry, Chairwoman of the Federation's Division of Art. See also under Kate Applington.
Folder	7		Globe-Wernick Co., 1937
Folder	8		Goodspeed's Book Club, 1935-1936, 1938, 1942
Folder	9		Graf, John Enos, 1936-1948
Folder	10		Graphic Arts, Division of, 1939-1940, 1944
Folder	11		Green, Mrs. Norvin H., 1941-1942, 1946-1947
Folder	12		Groce, Jr., George C., 1938-1942, 1948
Folder	13		Hac-Har, 1907-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	14		Has-Hay, 1908-1948

Box 10 of 44

Folder	1		He, 1906-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Hi, 1910-1947
Folder	3		Ho-Hy, 1907-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	4		Hansen, Oskar J. W., 1948
Folder	5		Harding, William and Judith, 1931-1932, 1939, 1953, 1955, and undated. Includes photographs of woodblock painting by Gianpictrino (Pendrini); correspondence between the Hardings and the Tolmans (Ruel P.), Sir Robert Witt, and Harry B. Wehle.
Folder	6		Hatch, Jr., John Davis, 1937-1942
Folder	7		Henderson, Helen W., 1912
Folder	8		Hohenschleyer, Louise M. Roth, 1941. Concerns her estate.
Folder	9		Holmes, William Henry, 1899-1900, 1903, 1905-1910. Includes correspondence, largely with Richard Rathbun, concerning the Gallery opening and decoration in the Natural History Building, and copyright laws. Earlier correspondence details Holmes' role as art consultant in the National Museum, including instructions from Secretary Langley to assess and buy Greek artifacts for the "Art Room" in the Castle.
Folder	10		Holmes, William Henry, 1911-1917. Includes correspondence, largely with Richard Rathbun and William deC. Ravenel, concerning the daily operations of the National Gallery.
Folder	11		Holmes, William Henry, 1918-1922, 1924-1933. Correspondents include Secretaries Charles D. Walcott, Charles G. Abbot, and Alexander Wetmore, William deC. Ravenel, and Richard Rathbun, concerning Gallery exhibitions, daily operations, and Holmes' retirement. Includes a photograph of an Argentinean site where paintings were found.
Folder	12		Holmes, William Henry-Personnel, 1920-1928, 1930, 1932. Contains Holmes' personnel file, and correspondence with Secretary Abbot concerning Holmes' retirement.
Folder	13		Holmes, William Henry-Articles and Obituaries, 1923, 1929, 1933, and undated

Box 11 of 44

Folders	1-2		Holmes, William Henry-Photographs. Includes a large number of photographs of the Hayden Survey of the Territories from Holmes' Random Records; copies of Holmes sketches and paintings; photographs of Ferdinand V. Hayden and various artists, architects, and works of art; and pictures of the National Gallery of Art staff: Holmes, Helen H. Hogan, Louise A. Rosenbusch and Glenn J. Martin. Also included are notes and correspondence concerning Holmes' expeditions and Random Records.
Folder	3		Hotels, 1941, 1943
Folder	4		Howard, Bessie J., 1942-1943, 1945-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	5		Huckel, Earle W., 1932-1933, 1935
Folder	6		I, 1913-1948
Folder	7		J, 1910-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	8		Japan, 1908, 1926-1927, 1933-1934, 1936
Folder	9		Jaques, Bertha E., 1933, 1935-1940
Folder	10		Ka-Ke, 1909-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	11		Ki-Ku, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 12 of 44

Folder	1		Keddy, John L., 1943, 1945-1948
Folder	2		Kurosawa, Keikichi, 1917-1918, 1921-1923. Includes annotated art prints addressed to William Henry Holmes and Richard Rathbun.
Folder	3		La-Le, 1904-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	4		Li-Loo, 1910-1946
Folder	5		Lor-Ly, 1914-1948
Folder	6		Latta, James B., 1948
Folder	7		"The Laws of France Relating to Art and Archeology," 1909. Includes an English translation.
Folder	8		League of American Pen Women, 1947
Folder	9		Lee, Charles, 1939-1940, 1942
Folder	10		Love, Edwin O., 1938, 1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	11		Maa-Mar, 1907-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	12		Mas-Mc, 1907-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 13 of 44

Folder	1		Me-Min, 1910-1948
Folder	2		Mis-Morr, 1907-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	3		Mors-Mu, 1909-1948
Folder	4		Marine Corps, 1948
Folder	5		Mayo, John H. F., 1941-1942
Folder	6		McGurk, Jonce I., 1919-1924, 1929, 1932-1933, 1935
Folder	7		Mechlin, Leila, 1910-1912, 1914, 1919-1920, 1923-1924, 1936, 1938-1940, 1947. See also American Federation of Arts and The Washington Society of Fine Arts.
Folder	8		The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907-1910, 1914-1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1929-1930, 1938-1941. See also under Radio Programs.
Folder	9		Millet, Frank D., 1908, 1910-1913
Folder	10		Mitman, Carl W., 1938, 1943-1946
Folder	11		Moore, Charles, 1915-1917, 1923
Folder	12		Murrett, John R., 1948
Folder	13		Na-Ne, 1909-1948. Includes photographs of a work of art.
Folder	14		Ni-Nu, 1906-1948. Includes photographs of a work of art.

Box 14 of 44

Folder	1		Nails, 1936. Correspondence with American Steel & Wire Company.
Folder	2		National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1913, 1964
Folder	3		National Council for Art Week, 1940
Folder	4		National Graphic Arts Education Guild, 1939-1940
Folder	5		New York Graphic Society, Inc., 1941
Folder	6		O, 1908-1948
Folder	7		O'Connor, Jeremiah, 1905, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916-1919
Folder	8		Olmsted, Helen A., 1909-1910, 1912-1916
Folder	9		Orr, Anne, 1944. Includes photographs of miniature portraits.
Folder	10		Pa, 1907-1948. Includes copies of articles about Walter Gilman Page's attempt to establish a National Department of Fine Arts in 1923, and photographs of works of art.
Folder	11		Pe-Pf, 1907-1948. Includes correspondence with The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, and photographs of works of art.

Box 15 of 44

Folder	1		Ph-Po, 1908-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		Pr-Py, 1909-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	3		Palmer, Elizabeth Day, 1946
Folder	4		Partello, Dwight J., 1915, 1917, 1920-1922
Folder	5		Pleasants, J. Hall, 1943, 1946-1947
Folder	6		Porter, Annie deCamp, 1926
Folder	7		Prince, George, 1921-1926. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	8		Q, 1924, 1937, 1940-1941
Folder	9		Ra-Ri, 1906-1948. Includes photographs of works of art and a copy of a radio broadcast, 1923, on the National Gallery of Art.
Folder	10		Ro-Ru, 1910-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 16 of 44

Folder	1		Radio Programs, 1933-1935. Includes press releases for "Art in America" series sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and American Federation of Arts.
Folders	2-3		Rathbun, Richard, 1907-1917. Includes correspondence with Holmes and William deC. Ravenel concerning the purchase and display of art works; copyright laws and the photographic reproduction of Gallery collections; and the plans and promotion for the Freer Gallery of Art.
Folders	4-5		Ravenel, William deC., 1907, 1910-1924, 1926. Concerns policies regarding the acceptance of gifts and loans to the Gallery; the 1910 Gallery Opening; an art library; and exhibition space.
Folder	6		Reilley, Sherman, 1941
Folder	7		Rutledge, Anna Wells, 1936-1944. See also under Carolina Art Association.
Folder	8		Sa-Sc, 1909-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	9		Se-Sh, 1907-1949. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 17 of 44

Folder	1		Si-Sq, 1911-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	2		St, 1910-1948
Folder	3		Su-Sy, 1921-1948
Folder	4		San Diego Art Museum, 1924-1926
Folder	5		Schmaltz, Hilda, 1945-1948
Folder	6		Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1946
Folder	7		Simon, Jacques, 1917, 1922
Folder	8		Smith, Little Ricks, 1948-1952. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	9		Star (Evening and Sunday Star newspapers), 1944, 1948
Folder	10		State, U. S. Department of, 1907, 1921-1925, 1929, 1939-1941, 1943-1944, 1946-1947. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	11		Stuntz, Stephen C., 1942-1947. Includes snapshots of Stuntz.

Box 18 of 44

Folder	1		Suida, William E., 1948
Folder	2		Ta-Ti, 1906-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	3		To-Tu, 1907-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	4		Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts, 1939. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	5		Thompson, Herbert E., 1926-1928, 1932. Includes correspondence with William Henry Holmes concerning the restoration of art works, and a photograph of a work of art.
Folder	6		Tolman, Ruel P., 1918, 1924-1927, 1931, 1935-1941. Includes radio broadcast transcript on art appreciation, November 8, 1937.
Folder	7		Trembly, Royal H., 1942-1943
Folder	8		Tydings, Senator Millard Evelyn, 1942
Folder	9		U, 1916-1948
Folder	10		Ulke, Henry, 1948
Folder	11		V, 1910-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	12		Wa-Wha, 1912-1948. Includes photographs of works of art.

Box 19 of 44

Folder	1		Whi-Will, 1910-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	2		Wilm-Wy, 1910-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	3		Walcott, Charles D., 1907-1910, 1915, 1918-1926, 1928. Includes "The National Gallery of Art" by Royal Cortissoz; "The Need for a National Gallery of Art" by Edward D. Libbey; and correspondence about the campaign for a National Gallery of Art building and funds.
Folder	4		War Committee and Civil Defense, 1942-1944
Folder	5		Washington Society of the Fine Arts, 1913-1915, 1917, 1919, 1943
Folder	6		Watson, Dudley Crafts, 1923, 1925, 1931
Folder	7		Watson, Lucille McWane, 1940-1941, 1944-1945
Folder	8		Weather Bureau, 1946
Folder	9		Wedgwood, 1948. Includes correspondence with John M. Graham, 2nd, of the Brooklyn Museum.
Folder	10		Wentworth, Cecile de, 1924, 1939. Concerns her will bequeathing an oil portrait of the late Major Archibald W. Butt, U.S. Army, to the National Art Gallery.
Folder	11		Wetmore, Alexander, 1904, 1925-1934, 1938-1948, and undated. Includes correspondence with Ruel P. Tolman regarding a National Gallery of Art building; the Portrait Gallery; annual reports; applications for exhibitions; exhibition space; War Loan drives and emergency storage plans during World War II; and various Tolman suggestions on how to improve the National Gallery and other Smithsonian facilities. Also included is correspondence with Thomas M. Beggs concerning the restoration of Gallery collections.
Folder	12		White House, 1939, 1941, 1946
Folder	13		Whitelaw, Robert N. S., 1938-1939
Folder	14		Whitlock, C. E. H., 1938-1941, 1943, 1946-1947. Includes photographs of works of art.
Folder	15		Winstanley, William, 1943. Correspondence concerns an oil painting of a river falls by Winstanley. Includes photographs of the painting.
Folder	16		Worcester Art Museum, 1910, 1913, 1941, 1943
Folder	17		Y, 1907-1948. Includes photograph of a work of art.
Folder	18		Yale University, 1914, 1920-1921, 1923-1924, 1926, 1939, 1941. Includes correspondence with William Sergeant Kendall and Theodore Sizer.

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Folder	1		Yamanaka & Company, 1920
Folder	2		The Year's Art, 1916-1917, 1921-1926, 1928-1931, 1933, 1935-1936, 1938-1940, 1944-1949
Folder	3		Z, 1910-1948
Folder	4		Zoir, Emile, 1919, 1924-1926, 1929. Includes photograph of Zoir, and newspaper clippings in French and Swedish.

SERIES 2.
National Gallery of Art Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Art Commission, and Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission, 1908-1960

The National Gallery of Art Advisory Committee, consisting of several artists and art representatives, was formed in 1908 to assist the Gallery with management and acquisition decisions. Francis D. Millet was the Committee's first President. When the NGA became a separate bureau of the Smithsonian in 1920, the Committee changed its name to the National Gallery of Art Commission; and when it became the NCFA, the group became known as the Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission. This series includes agendas, minutes, and reports of Commission meetings.

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Folder	5		National Gallery of Art Advisory Committee, 1908, 1910, 1919
Folders	6-9		National Gallery of Art Commission, 1921-1933. Minutes of April 12, 1929, concern the John Gellatly Collection.

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Folders	1-3		National Gallery of Art Commission, 1934-1937. Minutes of April 6, 1937, concern Andrew W. Mellon's gift for the National Gallery of Art.
Folders	4-5		Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission, 1938-1939
Folders	6-11		Smithsonian Art Commission, 1940-1946

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Folders	1-3		Smithsonian Art Commission, 1947-1948, 1958, 1960
Folder	4		Art Commission's Summaries. Includes statements of changes made in the organization and structure of the various Smithsonian art commissions.

SERIES 3.
1892-1960National Gallery of Art and National Collection of Fine Arts Administrative Records, 1901-1952

This series includes annual reports, collection lists, lectures, informational slide programs, and published articles concerning the Gallery and the proposed building.

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Folder	5		Data on Art Collections for 1910 Report. Includes data for 1911.
Folders	6-12		Annual Reports, 1912-1917, 1920. Includes list of art in the William T. Evans Collection in the 1912 report, and several exhibition catalogues.

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Folder	1		Annual Reports Index, 1921-1930. Indexes personal names mentioned in the reports, as well as lists of art works received.
Folders	2-11		Annual Reports, 1921-1930. Report for 1929 includes an unpublished manuscript, "American Historical Portrait Collections, Sculptural and Pictorial of the Smithsonian Institution and its Departments."
Folder	12		Annual Reports Index, 1931-1947. Indexes personal names mentioned in the reports and works of art received from 1931-1936.
Folders	13-24		Annual Reports, 1931-1942. Report for 1933 includes "A Chronological Synopsis of the Art Activities of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1932."

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Folders	1-5		Annual Reports, 1943-1947
Folder	6		Catalogue of Collections, 1921
Folder	7		Catalogues, 1922-1923, 1925-1926, 1938, 1941. Consists of correspondence and a list of recipients of a 1923 catalogue. For exhibition catalogues see series 5 .
Folder	8		Correspondence and Memoranda, 1907, 1909-1910, 1917, 1919-1921. Concerns administration of the National Gallery of Art, appraised value of its collections, and the proposed separate administration of the NGA within the Smithsonian Institution. Included are financial expenditure statements; a letter accepting Holmes' resignation as Head Curator of Anthropology and immediate appointment as Director of the NGA; annotated "Catalogue of Paintings and Other Art Objects Exhibited on the Occasion of the Opening of the Gallery in the New Building of the United States National Museum, March 17, 1910;" and snapshots of Alexander Wetmore and an unidentified man.
Folder	9		On the Future of the National Gallery of Art, 1935. Includes lists of NGA collections and Freer Gallery works of art.
Folder	10		History of the National Gallery of Art. Consists primarily of material extracted from published Smithsonian Annual Reports or other official documents.
Folder	11		Installation and Opening, 1910. Includes correspondence between Richard Rathbun and William Henry Holmes.
Folder	12		National Gallery of Art Buildings and Labor, 1908-1910, 1917-1918, 1920-1934. Includes a sketch by James S. Goldsmith showing linear feet of hanging space in the National Gallery, 1910.
Folder	13		National Gallery of Art Lecture, 1925. Includes a list of lantern slides to be used with the lecture by William Henry Holmes.
Folder	14		National Gallery of Art Lantern Slides Correspondence, 1922-1927, 1931, 1937
Folder	15		National Gallery of Art Name Change, 1937
Folder	16		National Gallery of Art Portraits, 1908-1909, 1919-1920, 1929, and undated. Includes lists of portraits, sculptures and plaster casts compiled by Rhees (1908), Belote (1919), Heading (1929), and Beckwith (undated), as well as a record of portraits owned by the National (Varden) Institute.

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Folder	1		National Gallery of Art Time Books, 1923, 1927-1930
Folder	2		National Gallery of Art, 1941, 1944-1945. Includes brochure on the Gallery.
Folder	3		National Portrait Gallery, 1920, 1929, 1935, 1941. Includes notes on references made during NGA and Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission meetings concerning a national portrait gallery, and on proposed federal legislation to study the feasibility of a portrait gallery; and a list of national galleries and museums of art.
Folder	4		National Portrait Gallery Clippings, 1919, 1921, 1929, 1935, 1950
Folders	5-27		Plans and Operations, 1921-1923, 1926-1947
Folder	28		Proposals for a National Gallery of Art, 1901, 1916-1917, 1920-1923, 1925, 1927, 1936-1937, 1948, 1950, 1952, and undated
Folder	29		Proposals for a National Gallery of Art-Clippings, 1907, 1910, 1919-1920, 1922, 1924, 1933-1934, 1939, 1946, 1952, and undated

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Folder	1		Record of Objects Received by and Loaned from the National Gallery of Art, 1915-1918
Folder	2		Restored Paintings, 1935-1936, 1938, 1943

SERIES 4.
Exhibition Photographs, undated

Included in this series are numerous photographs of permanent and temporary exhibitions. Of special interest are photographs of the NGA staff; copies of paintings by Director William Henry Holmes; and a large number of prints from the William T. Evans Collection and the 1921 Graphic Arts exhibition.

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Folder	3		Architecture. Includes a list of Architects Advisory Council members, and photographs of their prospective restoration projects.
Folder	4		Artists' Portraits
Folder	5		Art Objects-Statuettes
Folder	6		Henry Bacon Paintings
Folder	7		Walter Beck Paintings
Folder	8		British Collection
Folder	9		Eddie Collection. Works of art from the A. R. and M. H. Eddie Collection.
Folder	10		Chalk Drawings by John Elliott
Folders	11-12		William T. Evans Collection. Folder 11 includes a partial list of the Evans Collection.

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Folders	1-4		William T. Evans Collection
Folder	5		Silver, Glass and China Exhibit. Only includes photographs of the silver.
Folder	6		Paintings by William H. Holmes. Also includes photograph of Holmes' home.
Folder	7		Photographs of Holmes and of Other Paintings
Folder	8		Installation Shots of John Ross Key Collection. Includes prints of two Key paintings.
Folder	9		Miscellaneous prints (unidentified). Consists of photographs of art copied from books, many of which are identified as belonging to the Andrew W. Mellon Collection.
Folder	10		Installation Shots of McFadden Collection

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Folder	1		National Collection of Fine Arts-Tolman Camera Pictures
Folder	2		National Gallery of Art Installation Photographs. Includes photographs from the permanent collection and from several unidentified shows.
Folder	3		National Gallery of Art Shows. Includes photographs of works of art by Mons Breidvik, Albert Lorey Groll, E. Valderrama, Bjorn Egeli, Bertha de Hillebranth, and sand paintings by Mary Vaux Walcott.
Folder	4		Alfred Duane Pell Collection
Folder	5		Porcelain-William H. Holmes
Folder	6		World War I Water Colors, Chalk Drawings, and Charcoal, Adler to Iwill. Includes photocopies of works of art by Jules Adler, Georgette Agutte, J. Francis Auburtin, Joseph-Marius Avy, Joseph Bail, Paul-Albert Baudouin, Paul-Albert Besnard, Leon Bonnat, Louis Henri Bouchard, Joseph Felix Bouchor, Louise-Catherine Breslau, Eugene Burnand, Jules Cayron, Arsene Chabanian, Paul-Emile Chabas, Louis Charlot, Jules Cheret, Antoine Colbet, Charles Cotlet, Andre Dauchez, Adolphe Dechenaud, Angele Delasalle, Lucas Desire, William Didier-Pouget, Paul M. Dupuy, Carolus Duran, Maurice Eliot, Hubert-Denis Etchverry, Francois Flameng, Charles Fouqueray, Albert Fourie, Emile Friant, Henri Gervex, Gaston Guignard, Antoine Guillemet, Oct. Guillonnet, Henri Harpignies, Antoine Ivyalbert, and Marie-Joseph Iwill.
Folder	7		World War I Water Colors, Chalk Drawings, and Charcoal, Jacquier to Zo. Includes photocopies of works of art by Henri Jacquier, P. Franc Lamy, A. Lepere, Leo Laport-Blairsy, J. P. Laurens, Paul-Albert Laurens, Ernest Laurent, Charles Leandre, Albert Lebourg, Louis Legrand, Henri Le Sidaner, Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Leon A. Lhermitte, Maurice Lobre, Ferdinand Luigini, Fernand Mailland, Henri Martin, Maxime Maufra, Edgard Maxence, Emile-Rene Menard, Antonin Mercie, Audre Metthey, Hermann Paul, Rene Piot, Auguste Emmanuel Porntelin, Jean-Francois Raffaelli, R. Renouard, Georges Rochegrosse, Auguste Rodin, Alfred-Phillippe Roll, Ferdinand Roybet, Fernand Sabatte, Leon-Daniel Saubes, Francois Schommer, Victor Joseph Segoffin, Paul Signac, Lucien Simon, Guillaume Tronchet, Abel Truchet, Charles Albert Waltner, Jules-Paul Zingg, and Henri Zo.

SERIES 5.
Exhibition Materials, 1906-1975

This series consists of correspondence with artists and collection owners; exhibition catalogues and publicity clippings; accession and shipping records; and a large number of installation and exhibition photographs. Of special note are materials relating to the Charles Lang Freer, Harriet Lane Johnston, and Ralph Cross Johnson Collections. The Graphic Arts (1921), John Ross Key (1927-1929), George Washington Bicentennial (1932), John Mix Stanley (1944), and Smithsonian Centennial (1946) exhibitions are also well represented in this series.

Arranged chronologically.

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Folder	8		Harriet Lane Johnston Collection Installation Views, 1906
Folder	9		Kuwabara's Collection of One Hundred Ukiyo-Ye Paintings, 1912-1913, 1975. Includes "Catalogue de Cent Peintures Originales de L'Ukiyo-E" and "A Description of 'Ukiyo-Ye' Paintings and Prints by Yojiro Kuwabara." Exhibition shown from September 9-November 4, 1912.
Folder	10		Freer Collection Selections-Exhibition, 1910-1912, 1918-1919, 1975. Includes correspondence with Charles Lang Freer, "Catalogue of a Selection of Art Objects from the Freer Collection...April 15 to June 15, 1912"; a blueprint of the NGA space in the Natural History Building; and photocopies of works of art.
Folder	11		National Association of Portrait Painters Exhibitions, 1914-1915, 1975. Includes catalogues of two exhibitions, March 21-April 21, 1914 and March 6-March 31, 1915, and extensive correspondence documenting the loaned portraits.

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Folder	1		William F. Halsall Exhibition, 1914-1916, 1921, 1975. Includes a photograph of Halsall's "Our Glory-Battleship Oregon" exhibited from April 23-May 28, 1914; correspondence between Halsall and William Henry Holmes; a catalogue of other Halsall paintings exhibited; and a list of guests invited to the opening.
Folder	2		National Association of Portrait Painters, 1915, 1975. Includes exhibition photographs and catalogues of the exhibition, March 6-31, 1915.
Folders	3-4		American Industrial Art Exhibition, 1915-1916. Includes correspondence with The American Federation of Arts. Exhibition shown from May 17-June 17, 1916.
Folder	5		National Park Service Exhibition, 1917, 1926-1930, 1932-1933. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, January 2-6, 1917.
Folder	6		Orlando Rouland Exhibition, 1915, 1917, 1974. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, April 2-30, 1917; correspondence between Rouland and William Henry Holmes; and a list of guests invited to the opening.
Folder	7		Joseph Pennell Lithographs Exhibition, 1917-1918, 1930, 1975. Includes catalogues from the exhibition, November 1-24, 1917, and correspondence with Leila Mechlin of The American Federation of Arts.
Folder	8		Frank Moss Exhibition, 1918
Folder	9		Ralph Cross Johnson Collection, 1920, 1925. Includes photocopies of works of art from the Johnson Collection; "The Ralph Cross Johnson Collection" by George B. Rose in Art and Archeology , volume X, pages 75-110; "The National Gallery of Art" by Royal Cortissoz; and "The Need of a National Gallery of Art" by Edward Drummond Libbey in The American Magazine of Art, volume 16, pages 115-121.
Folder	10		National Art Committee Exhibition of War Portraits, 1920-1921, 1930. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, May 5-22, 1921, and correspondence with The American Federation of Arts.
Folder	11		Photographs of National Gallery of Art Exhibitions and of Artists, 1912, and undated. Includes several photographs of Max Weyl, among which is an autographed portrait to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. West, 1912.

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Folder	1		F. Ward Denys Collection, 1921. Includes photocopies of individual works of art and exhibitions.
Folder	2		Graphic Arts Exhibition, 1921. Includes photographs from the exhibition.
Folder	3		Graphic Arts Exhibition-Horn Books. Includes photographs from the exhibition.
Folder	4		Graphic Arts-Printing for the Blind. Includes photographs from the exhibition.
Folder	5		Graphic Arts-Bookbinding. Includes photographs of objects exhibited.
Folder	6		Graphic Arts-Printing Presses. Includes photographs of objects exhibited.
Folder	7		Graphic Arts. Includes photographs from unidentified exhibitions.
Folder	8		Graphic Arts-Traveling Show. Includes negatives exhibiting various techniques of graphic arts processes.
Folder	9		Shunko Suguira Exhibition, 1922. Exhibition shown from January 18-27, 1922.
Folder	10		Rossel Edward Mitchell Exhibition, 1921-1922. Concerns a January 1922 exhibition of Mitchell's architectural drawings and a proposed international historical museum by the International Historical Museum Society.
Folder	11		Underwood and Underwood Exhibition, 1921-1922. Concerns a loan exhibition from February 20-March 5, 1922, of photographic portraits of Washington, D.C., children.
Folder	12		Francisco Gonzalez Gamarra Exhibition, 1922. June 1922 loan exhibition of etchings and water colors of ancient Peruvian art.
Folder	13		American Federation of Arts-American Handicrafts Exhibition, 1922-1923. Includes a catalogue of art exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, November 1-November 25, 1922.
Folder	14		National Gallery of Art, Installation Views, 1922. Views of central hall of Natural History Museum showing the Harriet Lane Johnston, Henry Cleveland Perkins, and William T. Evans rooms.

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Folder	1		Kurt W. Bachstitz Collection Exhibition, 1922-1924. Concerns an exhibition of objects loaned from January 10-April 23, 1923, by Bachstitz through the Archaeological Society of Washington, 1923.
Folder	2		Chicago Tribune Building Exhibition, 1923, 1975. Exhibition from April 19-21, 1923, of architectural drawings submitted for the building competition in Chicago.
Folder	3		National Gallery of Art, Installation Views, 1924. Views of the Harriet Lane Johnston Room, Henry Cleveland Perkins Collection, and the Central, Grand Canyon, and Totem Pole rooms.
Folder	4		Ralph Cross Johnson Primitives, 1924. Installation photographs and individual works of art.
Folder	5		Savely Sorin and Seraphin Soudbinine Exhibition, 1923-1925. Includes catalogue of portraits by Savely Sorin and sculpture by Seraphin Soudbinine. Exhibition shown from January 10-January 27, 1924.
Folder	6		American Federation of Arts-Viennese School Children Exhibition, 1924-1925, 1927. Includes correspondence with Leila Mechlin and Hanns C. Kollar and photographs concerning the exhibition, May 7-May 19, 1924. Also includes two small pamphlets about Franz Cizek.
Folder	7		World War I Portraits Exhibition, 1924. Includes photographs of works of art primarily by John C. Johansen, Charles Hopkinson, and Edmund Charles Tarbell exhibited in July 1924.
Folder	8		Gunnar Widforss, 1924-1925. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, December 10, 1924-January 10, 1925, of water color paintings from national parks and the California coast.
Folder	9		Nancy Cox-McCormack Exhibition, 1924-1925. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, December 16, 1924-January 16, 1925.
Folder	10		Leo Katz Exhibition, 1923-1925. Includes catalogue form the exhibition, January 16-February 15, 1925.
Folder	11		Cecil Thomas and Alyn Williams, 1925. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, March 3-March 22, 1925, of Thomas' sculptures and miniature portraits by Williams, and a photograph of a plaster portrait bust by Thomas.
Folder	12		American Institute of Architects Exhibition, 1924-1925. Concerns the Second National Architectural Exhibition, May 7-May 21, 1925.
Folders	13-14		Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, November 1924-January 1926. Loan exhibition sponsored by the Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, shown December 3, 1925-January 3, 1926. Contains correspondence concerning permission to exhibit, and later to photograph works of art. Correspondents include Copley Amory, Helen Armory Ernst, Edith Eustis, Hollis French, Francis P. Garvan, Lillian Giffen, Luke Vincent Lockwood, David Lynn, Elizabeth G. McIlvain, Leila Mechlin, Duncan Phillips, Horace Wells Sellers, Elizabeth H. Stokes, and Emily Taylor.

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Folders	1-2		Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, February 1926-1927, 1941, 1943, 1947-1949, 1955, and undated. Includes correspondence with Copley Amory, Helen Armory Ernst, Edith Eustis, Hollis French, Lucy H. Frothingham, Lillian Giffen, Margery Hagner, Elizabeth G. McIlvain, Ethelwyn Manning, Leila Mechlin, C. Powell Minnigerode, Horace Wells Sellers, Elizabeth H. Stokes, Mary H. Sully, Emily Drayton Taylor, Elizabeth Allen White, Elizabeth H. Williams, and J. Appleton Wilson. Later correspondence concerns requests for copies of the 1925 exhibition catalogue.
Folder	3		Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver-Exhibition Catalogues, 1925. Four copies include negative numbers of some objects exhibited and various notes on artists and works of art exhibited.
Folders	4-6		Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver-Photographs. Folder 4 contains photographs of silver collections; folders 5 and 6 contain photographs of portraits.

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Folder	1		Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver-Photographs. Contains photographs of portraits.
Folders	2-3		Italy America Society Exhibition, 1925-1926. Includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and a catalogue from the exhibition, March 25-April 24, 1926.
Folder	4		Herbert Waldron Faulkner Exhibition, 1926-1927. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, November 29-December 12, 1926.
Folder	5		Huc-Mazelet Luquiens Exhibition, 1927. Exhibition shown from January 31-February 26, 1927.
Folder	6		Danish Art Exhibition, 1923, 1927. Exhibition never shown.
Folders	7-8		John Ross Key Exhibition, 1926-1929, 1931-1932, 1941, 1950. Includes exhibition photographs; catalogues with notations; newspaper clippings concerning the exhibition and the lawsuit between Key's widow, Ellenore Dutcher Key, and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution over an alleged contract violation by the Society giving Mrs. Key exclusive right to manufacture and sell recognition pins; correspondence with Mrs. Key, with later correspondence concerning the ownership of several Key paintings; biographical information on Key; and background information on some of the paintings exhibited. Exhibition shown from January 15, 1927-April 25, 1929.
Folder	9		Moses Wainer Dykaar Exhibition, 1923-1924, 1926, 1933-1934. Includes correspondence; catalogue of the exhibition, March 5-March 20, 1926; and newspaper clippings about the exhibition and Dykaar's death, 1933.
Folder	10		Moses Wainer Dykaar Exhibition-Photographs, 1926

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Folder	1		Moses Wainer Dykaar Exhibition-Photographs, 1926
Folders	2-3		Contemporary British Artists Exhibition, 1924-1930. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, March 5-April 1, 1928; correspondence with Sir Francis G. Kenyon and Charlotte Pearson; addresses of artists; a photograph of a work of art; and a catalogue from a similar exhibition in Ottawa, 1928.
Folder	4		Hon. Isaac Newton Portrait Contest, 1927-1928
Folder	5		Bernhard Osterman's portraits, 1927-1928. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, January 10-January 24, 1928; exhibition photographs; and a glass negative of the genre painting, "Temptation."
Folder	6		McFadden Room-Installation Views, 1928
Folder	7		Victor de Kubinyi, 1925-1927, 1929, 1932. Includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.
Folder	8		Society of Washington Artists' Exhibition (37th ), 1928. Includes catalogues of the exhibition, February 4-February 29, 1928; photographs of the exhibition and individual works of art; correspondence; and newspaper clippings.
Folder	9		Washington Water Color Club Exhibition (32nd), 1924, 1928. Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and a catalogue of the exhibition, April 7-May 6, 1928.
Folder	10		L. Theo Dube Exhibition, 1928-1929. Portraits exhibited from November 16-December 14, 1928.
Folder	11		Pieter J. L. van Veen Exhibition, 1928-1929, 1932. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, December 8-December 31, 1928.
Folder	12		Russian Art Exhibition, 1928-1929. Includes correspondence with members of the National Gallery of Art Commission concerning a proposed Russian Art Exhibition by art critic Christian Brinton.
Folder	13		William Spencer Bagdatopoulos Exhibition, 1927-1931. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, February 15-March 15, 1929; newspaper clippings; biographical information; photographs of the exhibition; and correspondence regarding Bagdatopoulos' difficulties with his immigration status.

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Folder	1		Edward Greene Malbone Exhibition, 1926-1929, 1961-1962. Includes photographs of Malbone's miniature paintings. Exhibition shown from February 23-April 21, 1929.
Folder	2		Frank Wilbert Stokes Exhibition, 1928-1930, 1937-1938, 1942, 1946, 1950
Folder	3		American Negro Artists Exhibition, 1928-1930. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, May 16-May 27, 1929, and correspondence with Anson Phelps Stokes, a prominent Washington, D.C., resident active in promoting the welfare of the American Negro.
Folder	4		Ranger Collection, 1929. Includes photographs of the National Gallery of Art staff and individual works from the Henry Ward Ranger Fund.
Folder	5		Edwin Burrage Child Exhibition, 1929-1930. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, February 15-March 30, 1930; photographs of the exhibition; and biographical information on Child.
Folder	6		American Negro Artists Exhibition, 1930. Includes a catalogue from the exhibition, May 30-June 8, 1930, and correspondence with Anson Phelps Stokes.
Folder	7		Society of Washington Artists Exhibitions, 1927-1928, 1930-1931. Includes correspondence with officers of the Society concerning the thirty-seventh (1928) and fortieth (1931) exhibitions.
Folder	8		Society of Washington Artists Exhibitions-Catalogues and Photographs, 1931. Catalogues and photographs from the 1931 exhibition, February 1-March 1.
Folder	9		Edgardo Simone Exhibition, 1929-1930. Correspondence reveals Holmes' conservative artistic tastes; he requests permission to preview any work to be exhibited and to deny any object found to be "debased" (a characteristic Holmes found in some Simone work). Also included is a typed list of sculpture exhibited from February 8-February 28, 1930.
Folder	10		Contemporary Hungarian Artists Exhibition, 1930-1931, 1933. Includes a catalogue and photographs of the exhibition, April 23-May 31, 1930.

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Folder	1		William Spencer Bagdatopoulos Exhibition, 1929-1931. Includes correspondence with Bagdatopoulos, a catalogue, and photographs of the exhibition, October 30-December 22, 1930.
Folder	2		Henry Bacon Exhibition, 1926-1927, 1930-1932. Includes a biographical sketch; catalogue and photographs of the exhibition, March 14-April 30, 1931; and correspondence with Bacon's widow, Louisa Lee Eldridge.
Folder	3		Cesareo Bernaldo de Quiros Exhibition, 1932-1933, 1939-1941, 1944, 1947. Contains correspondence concerning the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, January 13-March 12, 1933.
Folder	4		Cesareo Bernaldo de Quiros Exhibition-Catalogues and Photographs, 1932-1933. Photographs and catalogues from the exhibition, and at The Hispanic Society of America in New York City in 1932.
Folder	5		Wells M. Sawyer Exhibition, 1931-1932, 1960. Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and catalogues of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, October 24-November 30, 1931, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1931.
Folder	6		George Washington Bicentennial Exhibition, 1930-1933, 1940, 1955. Includes newspaper clippings and correspondence.
Folders	7-8		George Washington Bicentennial Exhibition-Photographs, 1932. Folder 8 contains negatives.
Folder	9		George Washington Bicentennial Exhibition-Catalogues, 1932. Includes catalogues from the exhibition, March 26-November 24, 1932.

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Folder	1		Installation Views, 1933. Photographs show large room of the National Gallery of Art before it was dismantled in May 1933.
Folder	2		Installation Views-Gellatly Collection, 1933
Folder	3		Clayton Knight Exhibition, 1934. Includes snapshot and biographical information on Knight, and catalogues from the exhibition, July 6-August 31, 1934.
Folder	4		Emil Jacques Exhibition, 1934-1935. Includes catalogues from the exhibition, January 10-January 31, 1935, and several photographs of art exhibited.
Folder	5		British Government Through The British Library of Information, 1928, 1934. Includes photographs of documents and an account of British institutions participating in the exhibition by the Division of Graphic Arts, United States National Museum, from September 7-September 30, 1934.
Folder	6		Civilian Conservation Corps Camps Exhibition, 1935. Includes newspaper clippings concerning the exhibition from June 4-June 20, 1935.
Folder	7		Bertha and Elena de Hellebranth Exhibition, 1933-1935. Includes catalogues from the exhibition, April 4-April 30, 1935.
Folder	8		Howard Fremont Stratton Exhibition, 1934-1936, and undated. Includes correspondence with, and biographical information on, Stratton, and photographs of works of art exhibited.
Folder	9		Alexander Buel Trowbridge Exhibition, 1934-1935. Includes photographs of works of art exhibited and catalogues from the exhibition, January 10-January 31, 1935.
Folder	10		American Federation of Arts and Scholastic (magazine) Art Exhibition, 1935. Exhibition shown from September 19-October 6. 1935.
Folder	11		Chicago Society of Etchers Show, 1935. Exhibition shown from October 11-November 14, 1935.
Folders	12-15		Installation Views, 1935, and undated. Negative numbers 22705, 803, 10795, 699, and 699a.
Folders	16-18		Ferris Collection. Negative numbers 32798, 31905, 11022.
Folder	19		Smithsonian Chapel, 1935
Folder	20		William T. Evans Collection, a corner in the National Gallery of Art
Folder	21		American Society of Miniature Painters, 1934-1936. Includes photographs of works of art and a list of artists and art represented in the exhibition from December 5, 1935-January 5, 1936.
Folder	22		Mons Breidvik Exhibition, 1935-1936, and undated. Includes biographical information, several photographs of individual works of art, and catalogues with notes from the exhibition, February 5-February 29, 1936.
Folder	23		Bjorn P. Egeli Exhibition, 1935-1936, and undated. Includes several photographs of individual works of art, biographical information, and a catalogue from the exhibition, February 5-February 29, 1936.
Folder	24		First Annual Metropolitan State Art Contest, 1935-1936, and undated. Includes exhibit layout for various art organizations participating in the contest and a snapshot of the exhibition.
Folder	25		Federal Art Project, 1936

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Folder	1		Frances and Richard MacGraw Exhibition, 1936. Exhibition of vitreous enamels from February 5-February 29, 1936. Includes photographs of two works of art.
Folder	2		Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project, 1936. Includes excerpted reviews of the "New Horizon in American Art" exhibition.
Folder	3		Thomas Moran Exhibition, 1936-1937. Includes correspondence with Ruth B. Moran concerning the exhibition of Thomas Moran's art.
Folder	4		Second Annual Metropolitan State Art Contest, 1937-1938, 1941. Includes photographs of people viewing the exhibition, April 9-April 29, 1937.
Folder	5		Twenty Women Painters and The Landscape Club Exhibition, 1936-1937. Joint exhibition of local artists from October 15-October 31, 1937.
Folder	6		Art of Mexican School Children Exhibition, 1937, 1939. Exhibited from August 2-August 8, 1937.
Folder	7		William Spencer Bagdatopoulos Exhibition, 1928, 1937-1938, and undated. Includes biographical information and photographs of two works of art shown at the exhibition, February 4-February 27, 1938.
Folder	8		Collection Exhibition from the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1938. Includes lists of water colors, sculpture, and oil paintings exhibited from April 6-April 29, 1938.
Folder	9		Henrique Medina Exhibition, 1938. Includes a photograph of the exhibition, April 13-May 7, 1938.
Folder	10		Naval Historical Foundation Exhibition, 1937-1938. Includes photographic prints of several works of art at the exhibition from June 3-August 31, 1938.
Folder	11		American Federation of Arts Exhibition, 1938. Photographic exhibition from September 3-September 26, 1938.
Folder	12		Federal Art Project Exhibition, 1938. Includes two photographic prints of works exhibited from October 7-October 30, 1938.
Folder	13		Marie Louis Evans Exhibition, 1938-1939. Includes a list of art exhibited from November 8-November 29, 1938.
Folder	14		Joel J. Levitt Exhibition, 1938-1939. Includes several catalogues with notes from the exhibition, February 3-February 27, 1939.
Folder	15		Mary Vaux Walcott Exhibition, 1938-1939, and undated. Includes a list of sketches of wild flowers exhibited from January 6-January 30, 1939.
Folder	16		Eighty-third Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society, Pictorial Section, 1939. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition from April 4-April 15, 1939.
Folder	17		Fifth Annual Metropolitan State Art Contest, 1939. Includes a list of art exhibited from November 8-November 29, 1939.
Folder	18		Esteban Valderrama Exhibition, 1939-1940, 1942, and undated. Includes photographs from the exhibition, December 12, 1939-January 1, 1940; exhibition catalogue; and copies of the Bulletin of the Pan American Union, March 1940, in English and Spanish.
Folder	19		John Slavin Exhibition, 1938-1940. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, January 9-January 31, 1940, and a mailing list of individuals invited to the opening.
Folder	20		James L. Prestini Exhibition, 1939-1940, and undated. Includes list of art exhibited from January 9-January 25, 1940.
Folder	21		Juan de Dios Hoyos Exhibition, 1939-1940. Exhibited from December 15, 1939-February 8, 1940. Includes photographs of a work of art.
Folder	22		Landscape Club of Washington, D.C., Exhibition, 1938-1940. Exhibition shown from April 4-April 28, 1940.
Folder	23		Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Exhibition, 1938-1940. Includes correspondence with A. Margaretta Archambault of the Society, and lists of donors and art exhibited from May 25-June 10, 1940.
Folder	24		William Baxter Closson Exhibition, 1939-January 1941. Two folders include notes and correspondence with Closson's widow, Grace Gallaudet Closson, concerning her husband's art; biographical information about Closson; lists of art exhibited from December 1, 1940-January 1, 1941; correspondence with Azubah J. Latham concerning the settlement of the Closson estate; and a photograph of a Closson painting.

Box 39 of 44

Folder	1		William Baxter Closson Exhibition, February-November 1941, 1943-1945, and undated
Folder	2		Lily Eversdijk-Smulders Exhibition, 1939-1940. Includes list of art exhibited from October 8-October 24, 1940.
Folder	3		Sixth Annual Metropolitan State Art Contest, 1940, and undated. Includes photographs and a catalogue list of art exhibited from November 1-November 24, 1940.
Folder	4		National Society of Pastelists Exhibition, 1939-1941, and undated. Includes a list of art exhibited from January 8-January 29, 1941.
Folder	5		Ethel H. Hagan Exhibition, 1940-1941. Includes biographical information and a list of art exhibited from February 1-February 26, 1941.
Folder	6		Alejandro Pardinas Exhibition, 1941. Exhibition shown from May 15-May 19, 1941.
Folder	7		Bertha E. Jaques Exhibition, 1935, 1941, and undated. Includes a draft of the catalogue and several photographs of art exhibited from June 3-June 30, 1941.
Folder	8		Antonio Sotomayor Exhibition, 1941. Includes a photograph of a work of art and a catalogue for the exhibition from June 2-June 15, 1941.
Folder	9		Count and Countess Bohdan de Castellane Exhibition, 1941, 1943, 1946. Includes a list of the Castellane's miniature collection and a photograph from the collection. Exhibition was shown from August 1-September 30, 1941.
Folder	10		Early American A