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NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS
January 20, 1966

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
19480 Burlington Drive
Detroit, Michigan 48223

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fleischman:

This year, 1966, is the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United States National Park Service. In recognition of this occasion the National Collection of Fine Arts plans an exhibition entitled American Landscape: A Changing Frontier to be held from April 27 through June 19, 1966. Our plans are for a major exhibition showing how great American artists have responded to unspoiled nature. The paintings will trace the artists' views of nature as they followed the frontier across our land. The natural beauties the artists celebrated have in important instances been preserved in our national parks. Although the exhibition will emphasize the nineteenth century, it will extend into the present, showing our contemporary artists pursue the frontiers even under the sea and in outer space.

We very much hope that you will allow us to include the following works from your collection:

View near Catskill Village by Thomas Cole
Prairie Sky by Abraham Rattner

In the event you can agree to lend these works, you may be assured that all areas of the building as well as our exhibition gallery are under guard at all times and that the building itself is entirely fireproofed. The national Collection of Fine Arts would assume expenses for packing, crating and shipping of all loans. We will insure all loans to the exhibition on a wall-to-wall basis at the lenders' valuations, or to accept the charge for insurance if a lender chooses to carry his own coverage.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CONSTITUTION AVENUE AT TENTH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560

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