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GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL 15 VANDERBILT AVENUE NEW YORK MURRAY HILL 2-2413 CABLE GRANDARY June 22,1933 Dear Mr. Tanner: We take pleasure in advising you that your Galleries have leased a very handsome building, heretofore occupied by the Union Club on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-first Street, to be used as a branch of the Grand Central Art Galleries. This is a magnificent building and will provide an excellent background and atmosphere for the works of the American artists. It has three large windows on Fifth Avenue and one of Fifty-first Street which can be seen for two blocks down Fifth Avenue. Painting and pieces of sculpture properly lighted will be displayed in these windows. We can conservatively say that we will have the finest art sales galleries in the United States and we trust you will share our enthusiasm. We wish to make it very clear, however, that we have no thought of moving from our present very desirable galleries in the Grand Central Terminal but we believe this Union Club building offers an opportunity to present the works of the American artists before a very much larger clientele and in a much more distinguished manner. This new venture will naturally entail considerable extra expense not only in rental but in general operating cost and after much consideration we have decided to make an extra commission charge of 10% on sales made in the new building. This, of course, will only defray a small part of the operating expense and we feel sure that you will find this satisfactory provided we are able to make additional sale for our membership. In other words, we are planning to handle this new venture very much in the same manner as we have managed our out of town exhibitions in the past. We can not, of course, afford to insure the work of art in the new place. As a matter of fact it is understood that all works will be at the artist's risk the same as they have always been at the Grand Central Terminal galleries. We assume that the above arrangement will be entirely satisfactory to you and we will plan on taking your works to the new gallery unless we hear from you to the contrary. In closing, we wish to again emphasize the fact that this will be one of the most important propaganda steps ever taken in behalf of American art and we hope you will send us new works to be shown in the new galleries and we will appreciate suggestions which will help to launch these Galleries on a successful voyage. Sincerely, Erwin S Barrie Manager. ESB:RMM
