THE
ANDERSON GALLERIES

489 PARK AVENUE
AT FIFTY-NINTH STREET
NEW YORK

PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY: ORIGINAL MATERIAL RESTRICTED

, December 5th,
1925.

My dear Mr. Grant:

Enclosed please find my check due the Anderson Gal-
leries for the hanging of our exhibition and may I take
this opportunity to thank you most cordially for your co-
operation in exhibiting Leger's paintings.

I want you to know how much we all appreciated the at-
mosphere of your floor at the Anderson Galleries. I think
we enjoyed exhibiting with you more than with any other
gallery we have exhibited with so far and I hope we may
cooperate another season in maybe an even larger exhibition.
Some time in the spring I would like to take this question
up with you again, if matters materialize as indications
are showing.

With cordial greetings and congratulations on the
success of the Pennell Exhibition, believe me,

Sincerely yours,

Encl.-

Mr. Grant,
c/o Anderson Galleries,
59th Street & Park Avenue,
New York City.

THIS AGREEMENT made the 16th day of March 1926, by and between THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, Inc., party of the first part, hereinafter called the "Galleries" and The Societe Anonyme, Inc., by Miss Katherine S. Dreier, President, of 88 Central Park West, Telephone Trafalgar 1739, party of the second part, hereinafter called the "Exhibitor", WITNESSETH:

**FIRST:** The Exhibitor agrees to consign and deliver at its own risk to the Galleries on its premises, 489 Park Avenue, in the City of New York, a Collection of paintings, sculpture, water colors and prints of which the Exhibitor represents and warrants that it is the sole owner and, or, agent.

**SECOND:** The Galleries will exhibit said Collection from January 24th opening at eight oclock in the evening to February 5th daily, on the premises of the Galleries, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 6 P.M., except Sundays and holidays, and will endeavor to sell the same at prices to be mutually agreed upon. Said Galleries shall have the right to exclude from said exhibition any articles which in its judgment are of inferior quality and likely to impair the success of the exhibition.

**THIRD:** The Galleries shall receive and shall be privileged to retain from the proceeds of any sales made during the exhibition twenty five percent (25%) on all goods sold and delivered.

**FOURTH:** The Exhibitor also agrees to pay to the Galleries the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars as rental for galleries K-L-M-N and O on the fourthfloor of the building of the said Galleries. Of this sum Five hundred dollars are to be paid on the signing of this contract, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the balance to be paid five hundred dollars on November 1st, 1926 and the balance, eight hundred dollars on January 24th, 1927. It is further understood and agreed that the Galleries shall insure this Collection after delivery and while it is in its possession under what is commonly known as an "all risk" policy, for the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10000.00) and the Exhibitor does hereby agree to pay the Galleries the premium on said insurance. It is further expressly understood and agreed that the Galleries shall be entitled to its aforesaid commission of twenty five percent (25%) in the event of loss before the material is sold. The Galleries will pay the Exhibitor the loss as adjusted with the insurance company, first deducting, however, its commission of twenty five percent (25%) of the adjusted loss, as well as all expenses that have been incurred by it up to the time of said loss.

**FIFTH:** The Galleries shall render a n account of the sale and make final payment and settlement in full within one month from the conclusion of the said sale, or at such later period as may be agreed upon.

WITNESS our hands and seals the day and year first above written.

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, INCORPORATED

By

Sraite' Auneyual L.c.

(L.S.)

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES

[MITCHELL KENNERLEY, PRESIDENT]
PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET
NEW YORK

November 17th, 1926

Miss Katherine S. Dreier,
88 Central Park West,
New York, N.Y.

Dear Miss Dreier:

What a shame that the one
opening in the year to which I wish to go should
come on the night when I have a previous engage-
ment to work in the Gallery! The only thing I
can say besides 'damn' is that I hope the ex-
hibition will have the success which your efforts
deserve and that we may have modern music at our
own opening the last of January.

Many thanks for the invitation
and many regrets that I can not go.

Yours very truly,

Walter M. Graust

WMG-L

December 16th,
1926.

My dear Mr. Grant:

Enclosed please find my check for $500.--, due
you this autumn as part payment on the lease for the
two weeks of the Fourth Floor, beginning with Monday,
January twenty-fourth.

I have several very important things to talk to
you about and as soon as I return from New Haven, I want
to get in touch with you so that we may discuss these
matters.

You will be interested to know that in the three and
a half weeks that the Exhibition has been in Brooklyn,
there has been an attendance of approximately 35,000.

Cordially yours,

Encl.-

Mr. Grant,
Fourth Floor,
Anderson Galleries,
409 Park Avenue,
New York City.

, January 14th, 1927.

Messrs. P. Yaccarino & Sons,
612 Sixth Avenue,
New York City.

Dear Sirs:

This is to confirm our conversation over the telephone yes-
terday, in which you agreed to send a van to collect

134 medium sized Paintings,
11 pieces of sculpture and
12 Pedestals

on Wednesday morning, January 19th, at the

Brooklyn Museum,
Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, N.Y.

and take them from there to the

The earlier in the day this can be attended to the better. The Mu-
seum opens promptly at 9 A.M. and if your men are there at that hour
they can collect everything and go right over to the Anderson Gallery.

Kindly mail the bill to me. I presume this truck will cost
the same as the one bringing over the pictures which was $25.00.

Thanking you for giving this your best attention, believe

me,

Very sincerely yours,

January 17th,
1927.

My dear Mr. Grant:

Enclosed please find the list of the pictures which I brought
to you in bundles to-day and left at your office. Besides these I
left another bundle containing two framed drawings by Lissitzky and
one oil by Braque.

On Wednesday, January 19th, Yaccarino will deliver to you

134 Paintings of varied sizes,
11 pieces of sculpture and
12 pedestals.

As agreed with you this morning I will call at about 10:30
on Thursday, the 20th, to check off the shipment with you.

Besides this we made a selection of

2 Merz Pictures by Kurt Schwitters,
2 Woodcuts by Moholy-Nagy,
1 Water Color by Moholy-Nagy,
1 Oil on paper by Béla Kádár and
1 Etching by Jacques Villon and
1 Colored Etching by Jacques Villon,

making eight in all to be matted.

Thanking you most warmly for all your cooperation, believe
me,

Cordially yours,

Encl.

Mr. Grant,
c/o The Anderson Gallery,
59th Street & Park Avenue,
New York City.

SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME, INC.

TEMPORARY ADDRESS, CARE OF MISS DREIER

88 CENTRAL PARK WEST

NEW YORK, January 17th,
1927.

My dear Mr. Grant:

2 Merz Pictures by Kurt Schwitters,
2 Woodcuts by Moholy-Nagy,
1 Water Color by Moholy-Nagy,
1 Oil on paper by Bela Kádár and
1 Etching by Jacques Villon and
1 Colored Etching by Jacques Villon, et al.

Encl.

(MUSEUM OF MODERN ART)

February 10th,
1927.

My dear Mr. Grant:

Please permit me to thank you most warmly for your generosity
towards the Société Anonyme. I cannot tell you how deeply I appre-
ciate this cooperation on your part and it will be a great spur to
those who are helping me to know that you valued it to this extent
as to render it such aid.

I am sending you a copy of our Special Catalog with my com-
pliments as a souvenir of this Exhibition, which I hope you will en-
joy and be entertained by.

You will recall that through you the Anderson Galleries let
me have the floor at the old rental. I am sending out a Report of
our work to help me collect my necessary funds and since you asked
me not to mention this, I was just wondering how I could handle it.
Could I say something like this:

"Because of an early contract rental at the Anderson
Galleries . . . . . . . . . . ."

This might cover the situation.

I am also going to ask you to let me know whether I was to
send a bill to my niece for the Wood Cut for $10.-- and to Mr. Sul-
livan for the Etching for $25.--, or whether they had been sent ouf
by Mr. Allison. All other sales are clear in my mind, but there is
a slight confusion about these sales.

Enclosed please find my check for the balance due the Ander-
son Galleries and again thanking you most warmly for your very gen-
erous assistance and interest, believe me,

Cordially yours,

Encl.

Mr. Grant,
Anderson Galleries,
Park Avenue & 59th Street,
New York City.

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES

February 10th, 1927

Miss Katherine S. Dreier,
88 Central Park West,
New York, N. Y.

My dear Miss Dreier:

I am very glad that I could do
anything at all to help you in such an undertaking
as you have under way, and am only sorry that I
really could do so little. Also, please accept my
sincere thanks for the Special catalogue which I
certainly shall enjoy.

Your suggestion in regard to,
"Because of an early contract rental at the Anderson
Galleries" is perfectly all right.

Will you also please send a bill
to your niece for the Wood Cut for $10.00 and to Mr.
Sullivan for the Etching at $25.00. These were not
sent from here.

I enclose a bill from my office
for fifty dollars for the handling of the announce-
ments.

Again, thanks for your appreciation,
It is unusual and perhaps therefore more acceptable.

WMG-L

, March 14th,
1927.

Mr. G. K. Allison,
c/o Mr. Walter Grant,
The Anderson Galleries,
Park Avenue & 59th Street,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Allison:

Please pardon the long delay in mailing you our
check for $1.41 which is due you for having attended to
the delivery of various pictures.

Let me at the same time take this opportunity of
thanking you for the way in which you managed your end of
our Exhibition. I was so pleased with it that I dropped
in at Koeppel's to tell your father about it, but unfor-
tunately struck a day when he was away and I hope he re-
ceived my message. I cannot tell you how pleased I was
with your energy and alertness and that, with your courte-
sy, ought to bring you far.

With kind regards, believe me,

Very sincerely yours,

Encl.-

Office and Reference Library

August 25th

1928

My dear Mr. Grant:

When are you to be in town again?

I am very anxious to come in and have a talk with
you about the Societe Anonyme.

Now that the big International is over which took
me exactly twoyears and nine months I have looked
about for an office and had the good fortune to
combine with Mr. Gomme who will have charge of all
our publications,

But I want you too to come on our Board and help
for I have so deeply appreciated you helpfullness
in connection with our Exhibition,

I have great faith in our ultimate victory and we
are beginning to have signs of ever increasing in-
terest. The other day their came a letter from
the Encyclopaedia Britannica asking for information
regarding our work as they want to include us in the
American Section of their article on the Art Societies
of the World.

All sorts of other opportunities are presenting them-
selves and I do hope that you with your interest will
join us and help us with all sorts of stimulating ideas

We have started a Brochure-Quaterly and the first num-
ber I hope will at last be out this Monday after all
sorts of visitudes. We hope that that will help us to
Keep our members in mind to send a Questionait re
out to all the art departments of the various colleges
and I want to talk to you about that also.

Everyone on the Board pays 16.00 a year dues and then
must help us to secure members and along whatever other
lines lie within their power.

The Questioner is going out October 1st and I want to have your name on
our stationary before then.

Will you come and join us? Please do!!

Most cordially