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SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION WAR MEMORIAL • CIVIC CENTER • HEMLOCK 2040 • SAN FRANCISCO • CALIFORNIA WILLIAM W. CROCKER, President GRACE L. McCANN MORLEY, Director August 23, 1941 Carlen Galleries Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Carlen, Thank you for your two communications. Dr. Barnes was very kind to act so promptly on my inquiry about Pippin's work. That inquiry was, as I was careful to point out to Dr. Barnes, unofficial. It expressed a personal desire, and was in the nature of a request for information as preliminary to proposing an exhibition of Pippin's work to the Director here. Dr. Morley has been away from the