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incorporation in the minutes a communication which she had received from the Metropolitan Museum of Art setting forth a minute which was adopted by a rising vote, reading as follows:

"THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK"

Office of the Secretary

EXTRACT from the minutes of the meeting of the BOARD OF TRUSTEES held May 18, 1942.

The Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art wish to mark with the deepest regret the death of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

For a period of twenty years her active interest in the field of American art bore fruit of inestimable importance. Her general attitude towards the contemporary artist transformed his outlook; and though there will not be forgotten her own admirable achievements as a sculptor, the exhibitions and purchases she sponsored and the great museum she founded, it is the unbounded enthusiasm she engendered for every cause she undertook that her city will long remember and deem itself the richer for having enjoyed.

She would not have wished the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we feel, to extend to the Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art their expressions of sorrow at her death, but rather their expressions of high satisfaction that Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney should have been among us and that the institutions of her city should have shared so greatly of her spirit.

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Attest: Horace Jayne, Acting Sec'y."