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Charles Alston
1270 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y., 29

Mr. Paul Anbinder
Editor in Chief
Shorewood Reproductions Inc.
724 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 19

Dear Mr. Anbinder:

That there are important American artists who are fully or partly of Negro origin, is a fact that, in the past has been sadly neglected.

Their inclusion in your new listings of American artists signifies an awareness of this neglect and the necessity for its correction.

The fact that the Negro Amreican artist is virtually unknown to black and white students alike, may justify his identification as such in your listings. However, hopefully in the not too distant future, such identification should be no more necessary for the Negro American than it is for the Jewish, the Scotch, the Irish or the Scandinavian American.

As for the separate listing: American Negro Art (Set #33; There is only American art. Some of it is created by Negroes, and colored perhaps by his experience as a black man in America. The experience nevertheless, and the art are profoundly American. Therefore, I suggest, a better title would be "The American Negro Artist", thus avoiding the implication that there exists a separate and distinct Negro art in America. 

Sincerely yours,

Charles Alston