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WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
945 Madison Avenue at Seventy-Fifth Street   New York, New York 10021  (212) 249-4100

December 30, 1969

Mr. Robert Rauschenberg  COPY JERRY
c/o Leo Castelli
4 East 77th Street
New York, New York 10021

Dear Mr. Rauschenberg:

I want to acknowledge with our warmest gratitude your very generous offer to give the Museum your painting, Ammo, silkscreen ink on mirrored Plexiglas with electronic equipment, 1969, 60 x 60 x 10 inches. Our Acquisitions Committee has formally accepted it for our permanent collection and we are all the more delighted than I can say to acquire such an important example of your work.

Unless you instruct us otherwise, we will plan to label and catalogue the work as: "Gift of the artist."

Again my warmest thanks for this truly superb gift.

Yours sincerely,

Director


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