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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. 2