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The ART Quarterly

Edited by W. R. VALENTINER and E. P. RICHARDSON
Associate Editor PAUL L. GRIGAUT

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CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
Museum of Modern Art

GERARD BRETT
Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology

WALTER HEIL
M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum

HENRY-RUSSELL HITCHCOCK
Smith College Museum of Art

A. HYATT MAYOR
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

ULRICH MIDDELDORF
Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence

WILLIAM M. MILLIKEN
The Cleveland Museum of Art

CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY
The Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum

DUNCAN PHILLIPS
The Phillips Gallery

JAKOB ROSENBERG
Fogg Art Museum

MARVIN C. ROSS
Washington, D.C.

HENRY PRESTON ROSSITER
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BENJAMIN ROWLAND, JR.
Fogg Art Museum

CARL O. SCHNIEWIND
The Art Institute of Chicago

CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS
Dickinson College

LAURENCE SICKMAN
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art

THEODORE SIZER
Yale University

WOLFGANG STECHOW
Oberlin College

JOHN STEEGMAN
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

RUDOLF WITTKOWER
Columbia University

OTTO WITTMANN, JR.
The Toledo Museum of Art
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October 10, 1958

Mr. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street
New York City

dear Mr. Seligman:

Thanks for your kind letter. I am glad that we could publish your article on the portraits of Chantilly and that the way in which the article came out pleased you.

You were kind to suggest a memorial to Dr. Valentiner. It is curious that the same idea had occurred to me and I had discussed it with Mr. Grigaut the day before your letter came. Some kind of mental telepathy perhaps. Dr. Valentiner was a man of the largest calibre and left behind him a monumental achievement here for the city of Detroit. Everyone who knew him at all well feels a sense of personal loss at his death.

The exhibition that Paul Grigaut has assembled will really be most remarkable. I do hope that you may have an opportunity to see it, for I think it would be well worth a trip here from New York. If you do come, I shall look forward with pleasure to seeing you and Mrs. Seligman in our museum.

Sincerely yours,
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E. P. Richardson

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