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January 7, 1922.

Mr. Oscar Bluemner,
50 James St.,
Bloomfield, N.J.

My dear Sir:
Please excuse me for not acknowledging more promptly your letter of December 24th. I appreciate what you say and the spirit in which you have said it. I quite agree with you that we do not cover the whole of American art as it is now being shown, but thither very few exceptions we cover it up to the point where our liking ceases. We will not handle what we do not like merely for the sake of showing what is being done. Other galleries which profess to believe in the more extreme modern schools are amply taking care of this branch of native painting. If we seem to be too conservative in what we show,our friends need not feel sorry for us for they may know that we are thoroughly enjoying the kind of pictures that we have on our walls even though we cannot be equally enthusiastic about all of them.

I hope you will continue to come in the gallery whenever you are in New York and that you will find a few things to like at least, even though you have to go elsewhere for the type of work which you may perhaps personally prefer.

Yours very truly,
[[STAMP]]ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART[[/STAMP]]
MACBETH
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