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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
NEW YORK 19

11 WEST 53rd STREET
TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 5-8900
CABLES: MODERNART, NEW-YORK

November 30, 1951

Dear Mr. Seligmann:

As Chairman of the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, I am writing to tell you of the progress made so far on our new Lending Service project, which opened early in October. 

The young people who have been working on this project have given a tremendous amount of time, and I am glad to say our opening weeks have been successful beyond our expectations. Of course, we cannot tell how many sales will result until the end of the first three-months period of rental. However, we feel very hopeful that there will be numerous sales. 

We appreciate more than we can say the invaluable help that you have given us in stocking the Lending Service with suitable works of art, and we hope sincerely that you will continue to let us have good things from the artists whom you represent. 

One of our claims of usefulness to the membership of the Museum is the fact that anything that is shown in our Lending Service has been passed by our Museum Selection Committee, consisting of the following members of our Modern Museum staff: René d'Harnoncourt, Alfred Barr, Andrew Ritchie, Dorothy Miller, and Margaret Miller. Therefore, as you can see, there will be instances where the selections are returned to you as having been considered unsuitable by the Committee. The Lending Service will see that any such articles are returned to you as soon as possible.

The question of frames has also come up. We have a strict responsibility to our insurance company in dealing with these borrowed pictures, and are finding it important that they be framed with a certain amount of projection beyond the canvas surface. This acts 

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