2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library being organized into the branch collection that exists today. Although collections of material on art have existed since the early 1920s, primarily to support the National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian (which later became the National Collection of Fine Arts <a href="http://blog.library.si.edu/2015/04/50th-anniversary-of-the-aapg-library/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>