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[[preprinted]] FOUNDED 1909 INCORPORATED 1916 THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS AFA NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: 1262 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N. W., WASHINGTON 6, D. C. • NAtional 8178 OFFFICERS Robert Woods Bliss HONORARY PRESIDENT Lawrence M. C. Smith PRESIDENT Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Grace L. McCann Morley SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Eloise Spaeth THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT Roy R. Neuberger TREASURER Thomas C. Parker DIRECTOR AND SECRETARY TRUSTEES Philip R. Adams Lee A. Ault Richard F. Bach Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Robert Woods Bliss Agnes Rindge Claflin Daniel S. Defenbacher Harry L. Gage Lloyd Goodrich Rene d'Harnoncourt Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Henry R. Hope Joseph Hudnut R. Sturgis Ingersoll Horace H. F. Jayne William M. Milliken Grace L. McCann Morley George Hewitt Myers Elizabeth S. Navas Roy R. Neuberger Thomas Brown Rudd Vincent Price Charles H. Sawyer Henry E. Schnakenberg L. M. C. Smith James Thrall Soby Eloise Spaeth Hudson D. Walker [[/preprinted]] April 20th, 1949 Mr. Jacques Seligman, Director Jacques Seligmann Galleries 5 East 57th Street New York, New York Dear Mr. Seligmann: As you, of course, know, "The 1949 Corcoran Exhibition" is now on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Mr. Hermann W. Williams, Jr., Director, has selected a group of forty paintings for circulation under our auspices. We consider it a great privilege to add this exhibition again to our roster of traveling shows and we hope that we may have your kind permission to include your loan for the one year tour beginning in June. It may interest you to learn that the following Galleries have already requested "THE 1949 CORCORAN BIENNIAL": Springfield Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Cedar Rapids Art Association, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee; David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Illinois and the University of Virginia Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia. The remaining periods are already under consideration. As always, the Federation will be responsible for the insurance as well as the dispersal of the exhibition. We shall inform you about the progress of the exhibition and we shall notify all borrowers that the paintings are for sale. Please be so kind as to sign the enclosed releases, one to us and one to the Corcoran Gallery, and return them to this office as soon as possible. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, I am Sincerely yours, [[signature]] Annemarie Pope [[/signature]] Mrs. John A. Pope Assistant Director AHP/gea Enclosures