Annual Report 1967
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 1967 ANNUAL REPORT Pages 337 through 356 from SMITHSONIAN YEAR 1967 REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1967 WASHINGTON, D C. 1968 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Trustees EARL WARREN, Chief Justice of the United States, Chairman DEAN RUSK, Secretary of State HENRY H. FOWLER, Secretary of the Treasury S. DILLON RIPLEY, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution PAUL MELLON, JOHN HAY WHITNEY, LESSING J. ROSENWALD, FRANKLIN D. MURPHY, STODDARD M. STEVENS President PAUL MELLON Vice President JOHN HAY WHITNEY Secretary- Treasurer ERNEST R. FEIDLER Director JOHN WALKER Administrator E. JAMES ADAMS General Counsel ERNEST R. FEIDLER Chief Curator PERRY B. COTT Assistant Director J. CARTER BROWN National Gallery of Art JOHN WALKER, Director SIR: Submitted herewith on behalf of the Board of Trustees is the report of the National Gallery of Art for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1967. This, the Gallery's 30th annual report, is made pursuant to the provisions of section 5(d) of Public Resolution No. 14, 75th Congress, 1st session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), U.S. Code, title 20, sec. 75(d). Organization The National Gallery of Art, although established as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, is an autonomous and separately administered organization and is governed by its own Board of Trustees. The statutory members of the Board are the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ex officio. On April 5, 1967, Stoddard M. Stevens was elected a general trustee of the National Gallery of Art to serve in that capacity for the remainder of the term expiring July 1, 1971, thereby succeeding John N. Irwin II. On May 4, 1967, Lessing J. Rosenwald was reelected a general trustee of the Gal- lery to serve in that capacity for the term expiring July 1, 1977. The three other general trustees continuing in office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1967, were Paul Mellon, John Hay Whitney, and Dr. Franklin D. Murphy. On May 4, 1967, Paul Mellon was reelected by the Board of Trustees to serve as President of the Gallery, and John Hay Whitney was reelected Vice President. 296 - 578 O - 68 - 1 337 338 SMITHSONIAN YEAR 1967 The executive officers of the Gallery as of June 30, 1967, were as follows: Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Warren, Chairman. Paul Mellon, President. Ernest R. Feidler, Secretary-Treasurer. John Walker, Director. E. James Adams, Administrator. Ernest R. Feidler, General Counsel. Perry B. Cott, Chief Curator. J. Carter Brown, Assistant Director. The three standing committees of the Board, as constituted at the annual meeting on May 4, 1967, were as follows: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Warren, Chairman. Paul Mellon, Vice Chairman. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, S. Dillon Ripley. John Hay Whitney. Dr. Franklin D. Murphy. FINANCE COMMITTEE Secretary of the Treasury, Henry H. Fowler, Chairman. Paul Mellon. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, S. Dillon Ripley. John Hay Whitney. Stoddard M. Stevens. ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE Paul Mellon, Chairman. John Hay Whitney. Lessing J. Rosenwald. Dr. Franklin D. Murphy. John Walker. Personnel At the close of fiscal year 1967, full-time Government employees on the permanent staff of the National Gallery of Art numbered 320. The United States Civil Service regulations govern the appointment of employees paid from appropriated funds. Appropriations For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1967, the Congress of the United States, in the regular annual appropriation, and in a supplemental appropriation required for pay increases, provided $2,822,000 to be NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 339 used for salaries and expenses in the operation and upkeep of the National Gallery of Art, the protection and care of works of art acquired by the Board of Trustees, and all administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the basic statute establishing the National Gallery of Art, that is, the Public Resolution No. 14, 75th Congress, 1st session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), U.S. Code, title 20, sees. 71-75. The following obligations were incurred: Personnel Compensation and Benefits $2, 377, 535. 14 All Other Items 394, 580. 39 Total Obligations 2, 772, 115. 53 Attendance The 1,510,967 visitors to the Gallery during fiscal year 1967 repre- sents a decrease of 66,141 from the attendance in 1966, which marked the 25th anniversary of the Gallery when attendance was unusually high. From July 1, 1966, through Labor Day and from April 1 through June 30, 1967, the Gallery was open to the public from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and from noon to 10 p.m. on Sundays. For the remainder of the year the Gallery was open to the public every day, except Christmas and New Year's Day, on a schedule of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays. Visitors during the additional hours in summer 1966 and spring 1967 numbered 141,440. The average daily attendance for the year was 4,162. The Collections There were 2,554 accessions to the collections by the National Gallery of Art as gifts, loans, or deposits during the year. The following gifts or bequests were accepted, and the following purchases were authorized, by the Board of Trustees: PAINTINGS Donor Artist The Belcher Collection, T arbell Mother and Mary Stoughton, Mass. Countess Bismarck Sully The Vanderkemp Children Colonel and Mrs. Edgar Powell Studebaker in his Wagon- William Garbisch Tire Shop, Hangtown, California Prior The Younger Generation Chambers Hudson River Valley, Sunset Unknown Fruit and Flowers 340 SMITHSONIAN YEAR 1967 Donor Artist Colonel and Mrs. Edgar Feke Alexander Graydon William Garbisch " Unknown Christ on the Road to Emmaus " Kemmelmeyer First Landing of Christopher Columbus 55 Williams Miss Sarah Mershon " " Daniel R. Schenck National Gallery of Art, Avercamp A Scene on the Ice Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund National Gallery of Art, Gossaert (Mabuse) Portrait of a Banker Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund National Gallery of Art, Delacroix The Arab Tax The Chester Dale Fund National Gallery of Art, Cole The Notch of the White Andrew Mellon Fund Mountains National Gallery of Art, Leonardo da Vinci Ginevra de'Benci Purchase Funds Morris Schapiro Charles Willson Peale Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming SCULPTURE National Gallery of Art, Maillol Summer Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund GRAPHIC ARTS Mrs. Michael H. Egnal Stuart Egnal 6 Etchings Colonel and Mrs. Edgar Unknown Baptismal Wish for William Garbisch Catarina Titzlir " " Reward of Merit for Anna Maria Gergard " " Reward of Merit for Peter Schern " Emily Pelton Jephthah Laments his Rash Vows " Pinney Lolotte and Werther " Unknown "George Washington is My Name" " Mary Ann Willson The Prodigal Son Taking Leave of His Father " " The Prodigal Son Wasted His Substance " " The Prodigal Son in Misery " " The Prodigal Son Reclaimed " Unknown Fruit in Fluted Bowl " Crecelius Miesse Family Record 55 Attributed to John The Temptation Landis " J. Evans Family of Four Miss Hilda Katz Hilda Katz 3 Prints NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 341 Donor Artist Title Miss Alice Hall Kerr L. Frameng, after The 100 Guilder Print Rembrandt R. Earlon, after A Landscape Claude Mrs. Arthur William Arthur William 7 Prints Heintzelman Heintzelman National Gallery of Art, Master H. L. Cupid on a Snail Shell Print Purchase Fund Pissarro Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise WORKS OF ART ON LOAN TO THE GALLERY The following works of art were received on loan, or were continued on loan: From Artist Nathan Cuminings Prendergast Cove with Figures Colonel and Mrs. Edgar Hicks Peaceable Kingdom William Garbisch Jerome Hill Delacroix Lion Devouring a Goat David Lloyd Kreeger Bonnard After Lunch Cezanne Road near Auvers Degas Woman Brushing Her Hair Gauguin Landscape Monet The Seine near Giverny Maillol Pomona Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Stubbs Lion Attacking a Deer Stubbs Lion Attacking a Horse Various French 68 Paintings Artists Various English 137 Drawings and Water Artists Colors Prendergast Salem Willows Degas 14 Wax Sculptures Degas 1 Bronze Sculpture Rear Adm. and Mrs. Various 18th Cen- 24 Drawings and Water Hubert W. Chanler tury Artists Colors WORKS OF ART ON LOAN RETURNED To Artist TzWf Mrs. Mellon Bruce Goya Condesa de Chinchon Colonel and Mrs. Br adley Emma Homan Edgar William Garbisch Field The Death of the First Born Field Egyptian Scene Hofmann View of the Schuylkill City Almshouse Property Unknown Artist Joseph and Anna Raymond Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Degas 1 Wax Sculpture 342 SMITHSONIAN YEAR 1967 WORKS OF ART LENT BY THE GALLERY The following loans were made during the fiscal year: To Artist Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hudson Valley Johannes Van Vechten Folk Art Collection Artist Gentleman of the Willson Family Miss Van Alen Christ Talketh with a Woman of Samaria Arkansas Arts Center Catlin 18 Paintings of Indian Life Blair House Sargent Miss Mathilde Townsend Carnegie Institute Hicks The Cornell Farm Museum of Art, Pitts- burgh, and Corcoran Gallery of Art Cincinnati Art Museum Twachtman Winter Harmony Cleveland Museum of Art French, circa 1140 Chalice of the Abbot Suger Department of State Catlin 5 Paintings of Indian Life and 2 Indian Portraits Detroit Institute of Art and Charles Willson Benjamin and Eleanor Munson-Williams Proctor Peale Ridgely Laming Institute Rembrandt Peale Richardson Stuart Timothy Matlack Howard University Johnston The Westwood Children State of Illinois Art Mobile Stuart Sir John Dick Zeliff The Barnyard Joslyn Art Museum Catlin 35 Paintings of Indian Life Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Trumbull Alexander Hamilton Kensett Newport Harbor Homer Breezing Up Montreal Museum of Art West Colonel Guy Johnson Museum of Early American Unknown Artist Girl in Plumed Headdress Folk Art, New York 22 Houses and a Church Phillips Joseph Slade Alice Slade Museum of Fine Arts, St.