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the necessity of "a realistic understanding of museums and their problems. Artists should not ask us to do things that are impossible, or that are the business of other agencies—through which the artist reaches the public." Mr. Goodrich then explained that unless the museum maintained the highest standards of quality both in exhibitions and in purchases, it could not fulfill its duty as a cultural institution. Therefore, artists should not look to it "for their chief financial support." He then listed some of the difficulties with which museums are confronted—"limited budgets, inadequate exhibition space, small staffs, and constant outside demands on our time and energy."

In closing, Mr. Goodrich summarized the situation as follows:

"Like all institutions, museums are constitutionally  inclined towards conservatism, through the weight of the past, the influence of lay trustees, and the sense of public responsibility. It is a tendency that all museum people should resist, in themselves and in their institutions. So strong is this pull towards conservatism, that the last thing we should be afraid of is to be too radical, too experimental, or too open to new ideas.

"I believe that American art today is the freest, most varied and most vital of any nation. I fear that public appreciation and support lag behind the creative achievement of our artists. Our business, as artists and museum people, is to awaken the public to the value and importance of what is going on in America today, and to the need for wider and more solid support. We can do this much more effectively together than separately, or at cross purposes. Artists and museum workers must realize that, in spite of all our differences, we are partners in the same great enterprise, one of the greatest in the long history of art, that of making it possible for a great nation to fulfill its artistic potentialities."

PANEL MEMBERS
PANEL I "Exhibitions and Juries"
David Smith, Chairman
Lloyd Goodrich, Co-Chairman

MUSEUM OFFICIALS
James Chillman, Jr. 
George D. Culler
D. S. Defenbacher
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Eva Gatling
Francis S. Merritt
Andrew Ritchie
Francis Henry Taylor

ARTISTS
Henry Billings
Arnold Blanch
Russell Cowles
Gladys R. Davis
Adolf Dehn
John S. deMartelly
Philip Evergood
Henry Mattson
Sigmund Menkes
Hans Moller
Andree Ruellan
Zoltan Sepeshy
Eugene Speicher
Reginald Wilson
Special Delegates: Harold Milch, Milton Lowenthal

PANEL II "Artists' Participation in Museum Activities"
George L.K. Morris, Chairman
Charles Val Clear, Co-Chairman

MUSEUM OFFICIALS
Justus Bier
Amy Freeman Lee
Dorothy C. Miller
Elizabeth S. Navas
Hermon More
Anna W. Olmsted
Perry T. Rathbone
Jean Paul Slusser
Harry B. Wehle

ARTISTS
Samuel Adler
Paul Burlin
Mary Callery
Minna Citron
Ernst Halberstadt
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Nathaniel Kaz
Doris Lee
Eugene Ludins
Wallace Mitchell
Abraham Rattner
Charles White
John von Wicht
William Zorach
Special Delegates: Edith Halpert, Roy Neuberger

PANEL III "Education and Community Relations"
Ralph Wickiser, Chairman
Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Co-Chairman

MUSEUM OFFICIALS
Harvard Arnason
Rene d'Harnoncourt
Albert E. Hise
Kenneth R. Hopkins
Kester D. Jewell
Katharine Kuh
Harris K. Frior
Robert G. Wheeler

ARTISTS
Lucile Blanch
Manuel Bromberg
Robert Cronbach
Olin Dows
Harry Gottlieb
John A Hartell
Kyle Morris
Josef Presser
Stuart R. Purser
Anton Refregier
Miron Sokole
John Taylor
Paul B. Travis
Arthur Zaidenberg
Marguerite Zorach
Denny Winters
Special Delegate: Antoinette Kraushaar

With remarkable efficiency and by working overtime, the panel chairmen had their reports ready for the Saturday morning session. Under the competent chairmanship of Edward Millman these reports were read and there was general discussion from the floor. Some recommendations were incorporated into the panel resolutions. There was great unanimity of feeling and lively discussion on the following resolution, originating in Panel Two:  "Museums should not exclude artists from participating in exhibitions, and should not exclude members of the public from attending exhibitions, where the exclusion is on the basis of race, color or creed." At the end of this meeting the registrants unanimously accepted the reports of the three panels, instructed the chairmen to put them in final form and send them to Artists Equity Association, The Association of American Museums, The American Federation of Arts and the American Association of Art Museum Directors, for further study and appropriate action.

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