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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ARTISTS COUNCIL FOR VICTORY HELD AT THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK 115 EAST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY ON MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1942, AT 8:00 P.M.

Meeting called to order by Mr. Julian Clarence Levi, Temporary Chairman.
Mr. Levi announced that the Committee of Nine, as elected by the National Art Council for Defense and the Artists Societies for Defense, had elected him as Temporary Chairman and Mr. Howard Lee Irwin as Temporary Secretary.
A roll call was taken of the following Societies represented by the following delegates and alternates:
Allied Artists of America, Inc., Delegate, Miss Ethel Gilmore, Alternate, Mr. Howard B. Spencer.
New York Chapter of the American Artists Professional League, Delegate, Mr. Nils Hogner, Alternate, Mr. Wilfred S. Conrow.
American Artists Congress, Alternate, Miss Elizabeth McCausland.
American Society of Miniature Painters, Delegate, Miss Sara Eakin Cowan, Alternate, Miss Mabel R. Welch.
An American Group, Inc., Delegate Mr. George Picken, Alternate Mr. James Lechay.
Mural Artists Guild of United Scenic Artists, Delegate, Mr. Stuyvesant Van Veen, Alternate, Mr. Williams.
National Academy of Design, Delegate, Mr. John Taylor Arms, Alternate, Mr. Frederick Ballard Williams.
National Association of Women Artists, Delegate, Mrs. Alexandrina Harris.
National Sculpture Society, Delegate, Mr. Paul Manship, Alternate, Mr. Gaetano Cecere.
National Society of Mural Painters, Delegate, Mr. Jan Juta, Alternate, Mr. Edmund Archer.
New York Society of Women Artists, Delegate, Miss Ethel Katz.
Sculptor's Guild, Inc., Delegate, Mr. Louis Slobodkin, Alternate, Miss Berta Margolies.
Society of American Etchers, Delegate, Mr. Armin Landeck, Alternate, Mr. Hugh Botts.
Federation of Modern Painters, Delegate, Mr. Nathaniel Pousette-Dart.
United American Artists, Delegate, Mr. Norman Barr, Alternate, Mr. Robert Cronbach.
Alumni Association of the American Academy in Rome, Delegate, Mr. A. Clemens Finley, Alternate, Mr. Joseph Kiesselevski.
Municipal Art Society of New York, Alternate, Mr. Electus D. Litchfield.
New York Chapter of the American Institute of Artists, Delegate, Mr. Geoffrey Platt.
New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Delegate, Mr. Alfred Geiffert, Jr.
Architectural League of New York, Delegate, Mr. Hugh Ferris.
Also present were: Mr. Hobart Nichols, Mr. J. Scott-Williams, Mr. Hugo Gellert, Mr. Edgar I. Williams, Miss Bianca Todd, Mr. Arthur Crisp, Mr. Joseph Le Boit, Mr. Howard Lee Irwin, Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Mr. Julian Clarence Levi, Mr. Allyn Cox, Mr. A.F. Brinckerhoff and Mr. Henry Billings.