Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents: For the Year Ended June 30, 1939 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents: For the Year Ended June 30, 1939 National Collection was closed during the last 4 months of the year for renovation. Weak plaster was replaced, the woodwork painted, and the walls covered with rubber-backed monk's cloth. The eight eenth annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was held On December 6, 1938, and four art works submitted during the year were accepted for the ...
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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents: For the Year Ended June 30, 1939 National Collection was closed during the last 4 months of the year for renovation. Weak plaster was replaced, the woodwork painted, and the walls covered with rubber-backed monk's cloth. The eight eenth annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was held On December 6, 1938, and four art works submitted during the year were accepted for the National Collection. Two miniatures were acquired through the Catherine Walden Myer fund. Six special exhibitions were held as follows: The Eberstadt collection of 260 naval historical prints; architectural exhibition Of' photographs of representative buildings of the post-war period; 200. Prints by graphic artists, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administra tion; 76 water-color paintings of the flora of the Isthmus of Panama by Marie Louise Evans; 173 water-color sketches of wild flowers of various national parks by Mary Vaux Walcott; 56 oil paintings, 38 drawings, 4 water colors, and 3 pastels by Joel J. Levitt. Freer Gallery of Art - Additions to the collections included Chinese bronze, jade, and paintings; an Arabic manuscript; and East Indian painting. Curatorial work was devoted to the study of these new acquisitions and to other Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, East Indian, and Armenian manuscripts or art objects either already in the collection or submitted for purchase. In addition, information on similar objects and 586 photographs Of Objects was furnished to the owners, who wished to know their identity, provenance, quality, date, meaning of inscriptions, etc. Changes in exhibition involved a total Of 71 objects. The total number Of visitors for the year was An illustrated lecture on Essen tials in Chinese Painting was given by Dr. Osvald Siren, Curator Of Oriental Arts, National Museum, Stockholm, on March 15, 1939. Eighteen groups were given instruction in the various rooms, and six groups were given docent service in the exhibition galleries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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