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September 30, 1964 ART COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MRS. CHARLES E. DUCOMMUN PRESIDENT MRS. RICHARD H. WOLFORD EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. PHILIP W. ROTH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. JOSEPH B. KOEPFLI VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. CHARLES E. CLEMINSHAW VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. HAROLD D. HAWES TREASURER MRS. WILLARD E. GOODWIN ASSISTANT TREASURER MRS. JAMES STOTTER II RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. HARRY SHERWOOD CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. MARSHALL R. URIST PARLIAMENTARIAN MRS. SIDNEY F. BRODY MRS. HERMAN WEINER CO-CHAIRMEN, MATISSE RETROSPECTIVE EX-OFFICIO DR. E. MAURICE BLOCH CURATOR OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS DR. J. LEROY DAVIDSON PROFESSOR OF ART DR. HENRI DORRA ASSOC. DIRECTOR OF ART GALLERIES MISS HANSENA FREDERICKSON MISS FRANCIS INGLIS DEAN WILLIAM W. MELNITZ DEAN, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS MR. FREDERICK S. WIGHT CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF ART BOARD MEMBERS MRS. RICHARD H. ALEXANDER MRS. AEROL ARNOLD MRS. WILLIAM BRICE MR. DAVID E. BRIGHT MR. SIDNEY F. BRODY MRS. ARMAND DEUTSCH MRS. PATRICK A. DOHENY MRS. THOMAS A. FREIBERG MRS. MACKLIN FLEMING MR. JAMES S. HARTZELL MRS. A. E. HOUGHTON MR. EDWIN JANSS, JR. MRS. GERALD W. LABINER MRS. HOYT B. LEISURE MRS. HARRY LENART MRS. ANDREW W. MARSHALL MRS. C. C. MARTIN MR. PHILIP D. MAUGHAN MRS. PHILIP D. MAUGHAN MR. FRANK McCARTHY MRS. J. HOLT McCRACKEN MRS. LYN MURRAY MRS. TELFORD W. OSWALD MR. GIFFORD PHILLIPS MRS. JAMES POE MRS. JAMES E. POLLAK MRS. JOHN REX MRS. ELMER C. RIGBY MR. TAFT B. SCHREIBER MRS. ROBERT SHANNON MRS. LLOYD SHEARER MR. FREDERICK R. WEISMAN MR. RICHARD H. WOLFORD MRS. ROBERT J. WOODS, JR. HONORARY DR. GUSTAVE O. ARLT MRS. ELMER BELT MRS. EDWARD A. DICKSON MRS. ROBERT E. GROSS MRS. FRED GRUNWALD MRS. VERN O. KNUDSEN MRS. FRANKLIN D. MURPHY MR. VINCENT PRICE MR. SIDNEY A. TEMPLE MR. DONALD WINSTON Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman 5 East 57th Street New York, New York Dear Mr. and Mrs. Seligman: The UCLA Art Council, an affiliate of the University of California at Los Angeles, is sponsoring as its forthcoming Annual Exhibition, Years of Ferment: The Birth of 20th Century Art. This exhibition will provide a visual and literary account covering the years from 1880 to World War I. It will open at the UCLA Art Galleries on January 24, 1965, and will subsequently be shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art, and later, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This exhibition is being organized as a highly specialized and educational look into history, and will deal with four aesthetic movements or traditions: Pont-Aven and the Nabis, the Fauves, the Cubists, and the Expressionists. A ninety page catalogue will emphasize and develop this scholarly approach. The clarifying concept underlying this exhibition will prove of great benefit to thousands of students at UCLA and in greater Los Angeles, and will attract those in the area who follow museum presentations. The caliber of Years of Ferment is compatible with past Art Council Annual Exhibitions, such as the Lipchitz Retrospective, the distinguished Picasso Exhibition, and the 18th Century French show. In assembling such an exhibition, works must be found which reflect trends and dramatize specific periods with historic precision. Thus our request to borrow from your collection works listed on the enclosed loan forms is governed by the need of works for which essential substitutes of similar quality cannot readily be obtained. We hope you will consider this unique requirement and that you will add to the distinction and value of the exhibition by generously loaning the above to the three museums involved. A loan form is enclosed for your convenience. The UCLA Art Council and the University are responsible for the costs of assembling and transporting loans. All works will be insured from the time they leave the walls of their owners until their return. 405 HILGARD AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 G.B.A. Room 5243 GR 8-9711, BR 2-8911, Ext. 3304
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