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[[preprinted]] FOUNDED 1909
INCORPORATED 1916
AS A NON-PROFIT
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

OFFICERS

[[italics]] Robert Woods Bliss [[/italics]]
HONORARY PRESIDENT

[[italics]] Lawrence M. C. Smith [[/italics]]
PRESIDENT

[[italics]] Richard F. Bach [[/italics]]
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

[[italics]] Eloise Spaeth [[/italics]]
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

[[italics]] Thomas Brown Rudd [[/italics]]]
THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT

[[italics]] Roy R. Neuberger [[/italics]]
TREASURER

[[italics]] George Burton Cumming [[/italics]]
DIRECTOR & SECRETARY

TRUSTEES
[[italics]] Philip R. Adams
H. Harvard Arnason
Lee A. Ault
Richard F. Bach
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Sidney Berkowitz
Robert Woods Bliss
Leslie Cheek, Jr.
Ralph F. Colin
Russell Cowles
Sumner McK. Crosby
Daniel S. Defenbacher
Lloyd Goodrich
Rene d'Harnoncourt
Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr.
Henry R. Hope
Earle Ludgin
Stanley Marcus
William M. Milliken
Grace L. McCann Morley
Elizabeth S. Navas
Roy R. Neuberger
Thomas Brown Rudd
Charles H. Sawyer
James S. Schramm
Lawrence M. C. Smith
James Thrall Soby
Eloise Spaeth
Francis Henry Taylor
Emily Hall Tremaine
Hudson D. Walker
John Walker

Otto L. Spaeth [/italics]]
CONSULTANT
ON DEVELOPMENT [[/preprinted]][[/column 1]]

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[[preprinted]] THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS [[logo: AFA appears behind aforementioned text]]

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT:  WESTERN SAVINGS FUND BULIDING, PHILADELPHIA (7), PA. [[/preprinted]]

October 5, 1951

PRESIDENT'S FALL REPORT OT AFA CHAPTERS, MEMBERS, AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE MAGAZINE OF ART*

The last nine months since my report to Chapters and Members in January, 1951, have produced a tremendous number of new and exciting developments within the AFA. However, before reviewing some of these activities, I wish to make a general comment on the changing place of the Federation. The more one works in the field of the Federation's activities, the more one becomes impressed with the following facts:

(a)  The present world situation increases enormously the importance of what we are doing -- call it "Point Five", "Cultural Development and Exchange", or what you will, the meaning and value of our civilization is being attacked before the vast majority of the peoples of the world. Guns and dollars alone cannot win for us.

(b) No governmental agency can represent our civilization in the field of art. Art, as we know it, is the spiritual stronghold of the democratic mind, of free initiative, and of the individual in this struggle against communism and dictatorship.

(c) The Federation, by its unique position and 42-year history, must accept great leadership.  It has great assets in its long experience, strong Board of Trustees, and the support of its almost 400 Chapter institutions all over the country. But its financial resources are inadequate to meet the heightened tasks before it.

Now let's see what we have been doing....

ONE OF OUR MAIN FUNCTIONS is to provide our Chapters, and through them the people of our country, with exhibitions which would be unavailable without our central distribution activities. In the circulation of exhibitions at home we have had a record year. For example, we have circulated the following exhibitions national which have local origins: "Brooklyn Museum Print Annual", "Paintings and Prints from the Upper Midwest", "San Francisco Bay Region Architecture", "A University Collects", "Murals for Tulsa", "New Hampshire Crafts". This service also includes many new features such as shows based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art material.

The total of 92 exhibitions, booked 418 times at 186 museums and galleries located in 42 states and countries, is impressive: yet the art needs of vast areas and groups of our people are still not being


*  (Additional copies are being sent to others active in the arts.) [[/column 2]]

[[preprinted]] 42 Years of Active Service to Art in America [[/preprinted]]