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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS
WASHINGTON 25. D. C.
CONSTITUTION AVENUE AT TENTH STREET

National
10th + Constitution 
Wed Looking 

January 22, 1965

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
19480 Burlington Drive
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fleischman:

The largest Stuart Davis exhibition ever to be held is being assembled by the National Collection of Fine Arts.  This memorial exhibition will first show here in the Nation's Capital, then will be presented at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and The Art Galleries, University of California in Los Angeles.  The opening date in Washington is May 25, 1965 and the closing date in Los Angeles is December 5, 1965.

Every effort is being made to see that Mr. Davis' most outstanding works are included and we are anxious to exhibit a painting from your collection.  We hope very much that you will be willing to lend Television.

All works will be fully insured.  All shipping and handling expenses will be borne by the exhibitors.  All works will be under careful guard and in fireproof galleries. 

To simplify procedures in the event you agree to lend us your painting, a loan form is enclosed which requests information for the catalogue and your preferences about shipping and insurance procedure.

The exhibition has the full support and cooperation of Mrs. Stuart Davis and of Mr. Davis' gallery directory, Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery.  The exhibition cataloque itself will stand as a significant publication and valuable addition to the American art bibliography; the introduction will be written by H. Harvard Arnason, Vice President for Art Administration, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.