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Loan Refused 11/11/68

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Tel. 245-3200 Cable: Modernart

November 1, 1968

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Tremaine:

I am organizing for the Museum's circulating exhibitions program a show called The Inflated Image which will be made up of paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints in which artists have used unnatural enlargement of visual phenomena, provoking responses ranging from shock, bewilderment and awe to surprise and amusement. The show will concentrate on the many ways in which the present generation has exploited this device, but it will also include works by artists of the nineteenth century and the earlier twentieth century.
One particularly desirable work is the Roy Lichtenstein, I Can See the Whole Room... And There's Nobody In It, in your collection and I very much hope you will consider lending it to the exhibition.
The first showing is scheduled for January 6-27 of 1969 at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. The final showing will be at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg from November 30 to December 21, 1969. The loan period would thus be somewhat over a year including time at both ends for collecting and packing and returning the loans. Other institutions which have scheduled the show are Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas from February 16 to March 8, 1969; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon from April 1-29, 1969; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens from July 1-22, 1969 and Goucher College, Towson, Maryland from October 10-31, 1969.
In the hope that you will consent to lend, I am enclosing our Loan Agreement form. Would you kindly complete, sign and date the orginal green copy and return it in the envelope provided. The duplicate copy should be retained for your own records.
We would like to receive the painting during the middle of November so that it may be examined and photographed for condition and packed with care. Our Assembly Coordinator will be in touch with you to arrange a date that is convenient to you for collection. We