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RML/M
October 25th, 1934.

Dear Mr. Mumford,

I wish to write you a few personal lines regarding our Exhibition of French Drawings and Water Colors, and announcement of which you will receive in a day or/so.

The Exhibition has many unusual features which warrant bringing it to your attention. We have endeavored to gather together not only outstanding works by the leading Masters in the 19th century - such as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Seurat - but are supplementing these names by the minor men who played such an important role in their development and instruction.

It was our original intention to have "100 Years - 100 Artists - 100 Drawings", another feature of which to have been that each example was to be exhibited in this country for the first time. To find new examples by 100 individual artists proved to be too difficult a task to be accomplished during the summer months in Europe, and so we have reduced this number to some 70 works by 50 artists.

We have tried in every way to make this Exhibition as interesting as possible, and to show the development of the 19th century through examples which the public very seldom has a chance to see. In many instances works have been found which were original studies for l'thographs or engravings, paintings, and and even sculptural friezes.

For example, we have a delightful little group of twelve ISABEY drawings, "La Vie d'un Gentilhomme", which were originally executed to serve as illustrations on a Royal Sèvres service set.

An allegorical drawing by RUDE,

Two superb water colors by LAMI, an artist whose work is seldom seen in America,
A study by PUVIS DE CHAVANNES for the Panthéon in Paris,

.....Manet...

TP