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AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP 
INCORPORATED
* ONE HUNDRED AND SIX SEVENTH AVENUE • NEW YORK 11, N.Y. *  

February 17, 1944

Mr. Horace Pippin
% Downtown Gallery
43 E. 51 St.
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Pippin:

We are setting forth the terms of the contract for 1944 which we are pleased to make with you for including 1 of your pictures in our American Artists Group Christmas Card Collection. For purposes of identification the titles are:

"Victory Vase"
a. You grant us permission to reproduce your pictures as Christmas cards, affix domestic copyright notice thereon, and to apply for foreign copyright, if we deem same advisable, and, for the purpose mentioned, we are to have the exclusive right to the reproduction of these works for the duration of the copyright.

b. We are to pay you a royalty of 10% of the selling price received by us. Our selling price is 50% of the retail price of the cards. The said royalty is to be paid annually on January 20th on the basis of cards actually sold prior to said accounting date.

c. Your agent shall have right, upon request, to examine our books of accounts insofar as they relate to you.

d. Since the proper presentation of these reproductions will require advertising and publicity, you agree to permit us to include your name in our advertising and publicity material, and not to permit your name to be used by or for any other Christmas card manufacturer.

e. You agree to grant us the exclusive right to reproduce any of your pictures available for Christmas card purposes for a period of three years from this date.

f. We will furnish you with fifty copies of the Christmas cards containing the reproductions of your pictures without charge.

We have signed this letter and the duplicate enclosed herewith. If the terms meet with your approval, will you be good enough to place your signature on the duplicate and return same to us. Please keep the original as your record of our understanding.

Yours very truly,
AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, Inc.
Samuel Golden

I have read, accepted and agreed to the foregoing as the agreement between us which authorizes you to reproduce my pictures for the abovementioned purpose.

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