[Rarebooks] FS: Congress Defunds National Art Gallery (1925)

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures and Silver
Assembled by the Washington Loan Exhibition Committee”

Published in Washington by the National Gallery of Art in 1925.

DISCUSSION: The catalog of an early loan exhibition of American works,
part of the then-ongoing fight to get a National Gallery of American Art
properly funded and have a building erected for it. The National Gallery,
part of the Smithsonian, had been given a skeleton budget by Congress in
1920, and in 1923 a site for the building was selected, but no funds were
appropriated by Congress for the project, which still lay dormant when
this exhibition was arranged. The catalog's 3-page introduction goes into
these machinations in some detail, and concludes that it is a great shame
that America cannot manage to erect a proper building (which would finally
be done in 1941).

The short introduction to the Miniatures section was written by Albert
Rosenthal. The introduction to the Portraits section was written by Leila
Mechlin. The somewhat longer introduction to the silver was written by
Elizabeth Benton of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Members of the
Committee on Silver included Hollis French and Luke Vincent Lockwood. The
silver was categorized into New England wares; New York; Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Annapolis & Washington, and Anonymous makers.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 5.5"x8.5", 107 pages, plus 15 black & white plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers somewhat worn, a little soil, spine split in a few
places, some light internal foxing; a delicate catalog.

PRICE:  $60 -

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