## HISTORY AND PURPOSE

The College Art Association was founded in 1912 by a group of American professors to raise the standards of scholarship and of the teaching of art throughout the country. For more than 36 years, the influence of these pioneers in art education has been felt far beyond the circle of academic halls. The College Art Association is today the recognized learned society in America in the field of art.

The activities of the College Art Association are of vital importance to teachers and scholars. The Association stands for high standards in education and research and promotes discussion of the function and methods of instruction in art throughout the country. In order to make this discussion broad and representative, the Board of Directors is sincerely interested in reaching all those concerned with teaching and research.

## CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP

**ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP** $10.00*

Available to Instructors, Artists, Museum Executives, and Students of Fine Arts.

**ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP** $15.00*

Available to Collectors, Connoisseurs, and others interested in the serious study of art, but not eligible for active membership.

**LIFE MEMBERSHIP** $250.00

**SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP** $1,000.00

**LIMITED MEMBERSHIP** $7.50

Primarily intended for students, but open to anyone eligible to active membership whose rank is under that of Curator or Professor. (Limited to 5 years and available only to residents of the United States.)

Limited members are entitled to I and II of the membership privileges only.

*Add $1.00 for foreign postage

## PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS

### I PUBLICATIONS:

*The Art Bulletin*, an illustrated quarterly devoted to scholarly articles and reviews on all periods of the history of art. The leading publication in the United States for research in its field, necessary for every good art library, whether institutional or private.

*College Art Journal*, the only quarterly in this country dealing primarily with problems of teaching art. It contains short articles on fundamental questions in education, and is a forum for open discussion, news and summaries of activities of art departments, museums and of the Association.

### II ANNUAL MEETING:

A three or four day program bringing together leading Educators, Museum Directors, Collectors and other Scholars. Forums, reports on discoveries, and discussions make this an important event.

### III PLACEMENT BUREAU:

A service for placing members in college and museum vacancies.

Information and references concerning individuals are supplied without charge.

### IV DISCOUNT ON SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Individual members may subscribe to any of the following magazines at the reduced rates indicated. (This privilege can not be offered to Institutions.)

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Regular Rate</th><th>Member's Rate</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>American Artist</td><td>$4.00</td><td>$3.00</td></tr><tr><td>Antioch Review</td><td>3.00</td><td>2.25</td></tr><tr><td>Architectural Record</td><td>4.50</td><td>3.75</td></tr><tr><td>Ars Islamica</td><td>9.00</td><td>8.10</td></tr><tr><td>Art Digest</td><td>4.00</td><td>3.25</td></tr><tr><td>Art in America</td><td>6.00</td><td>5.00</td></tr><tr><td>Art Quarterly</td><td>5.00</td><td>3.75</td></tr><tr><td>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</td><td>12.00</td><td>9.60</td></tr><tr><td>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism</td><td>4.00</td><td>3.00</td></tr><tr><td>Liturgical Arts</td><td>3.00</td><td>2.50</td></tr><tr><td>Magazine of Art</td><td>6.00</td><td>4.50</td></tr><tr><td>Metropolitan Museum Bulletin</td><td>3.00</td><td>2.50</td></tr><tr><td>Pacific Art Review</td><td>3.00</td><td>2.00</td></tr><tr><td>Print, Graphic Arts Quarterly</td><td>7.50</td><td>6.00</td></tr></tbody></table>

### V DISCOUNT ON ART BOOKS:

Current art books may be purchased at a discount up to 25% from many of the leading publishers when ordered through the Association.

### VI DISCOUNT ON BACK PUBLICATIONS:

Members receive a discount of 10% on back issues of all College Art Association publications: Art Bulletin, College Art Journal, Parnassus, Index of 20th Century Artists, Eastern Art. Many back issues of the Art Bulletin are available at greatly reduced prices. A classified list with prices will be sent upon request.

### VII ACTIVE PARTICIPATION by vote in the policies of the Association and the work of the various committees.

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PUBLICATIONS

THE ART BULLETIN

Editor-in-Chief:

CHARLES L. KUHN, Harvard University

Associate Editor for Monographs:

WILLIAM L. M. BURKE, Princeton University

Managing Editor:

MARGOT CUTTER, Princeton University Press

Editor for Book Reviews:

JOHN COOLIDGE, Harvard University

THE COLLEGE ART JOURNAL

Editor:

HENRY R. HOPE, Indiana University

Advisory Editors:

G. HAYDN HUNTLEY, Northwestern University

OTTO J. BRENDEL, Indiana University

Editor for Book Reviews:

J. CARSON WEBSTER, Northwestern University

OFFICERS

President: FREDERICK B. DEKNATEL, Harvard University

Vice Pres: G. HAYDN HUNTLEY, Northwestern University

Secretary: ESTHER L. SEAVER, Wadsworth Atheneum

Treasurer: MARK EISNER, Member of Bar, Former Chairman Board of Higher Education, City of New York

HONORARY DIRECTORS

WALTER W. S. COOK, Institute of Fine Arts

CHARLES R. MOREY, Princeton University

DAVID M. ROBINSON, Johns Hopkins University

PAUL J. SACHS, Harvard University

DIRECTORS

ALFRED H. BARR, JR., Museum of Modern Art, New York

AGNES RINDGE CLAFLIN, Vassar College

LAMAR DODD, University of Georgia

GEORGE H. FORSYTH, Jr. University of Michigan

LLOYD GOODRICH, Whitney Museum of American Art

RENSSELAER W. LEE, Institute for Advanced Study

SUMNER MCK. CROSBY, Yale University

BARTLETT H. HAYES, JR., Addison Gallery of American Art

HENRY-RUSSELL HITCHCOCK, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn.

FISKE KIMBALL, Philadelphia Museum

AMY WOLLER McCLELLAND, University of So. California

ULRICH MIDDELDORF, University of Chicago

STEPHEN C. PEPPER, University of California

DAVID M. ROBB, University of Pennsylvania

CHARLES H. SAWYER, Yale University

Committee on Placement Bureau,
Committee on Membership,
WALTER W. S. COOK, Chairman

Committee on Publications,
RENSSELAER W. LEE, Chairman

Committee on Scholarships and Fellowships,
AGNES RINDGE CLAFLIN, Chairman

PETER MAGILL, Business Manager

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

137 EAST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y.

THE ART BULLETIN
PARNASSUS
EASTERN ART

April 13th, 1934.

CABLE ADDRESS
"ARTSOCIATE"

TELEPHONE
WICKERSHAM 2-0537

Dear Katharine Dreier:

My message to Mrs. MaoMahon has just been delivered and she tells me that she is going out of town this afternoon and will not be back again until April 23rd.

She is very much interested in your suggestion about the exhibition and will be glad if you will arrange with her secretary, Miss Cohen, when you will be in town and can see her. She also tells me that after the 23rd she will be in town one week and out of town one week but she will try to fit her time with yours, whenever you will be in New York. I explained that you were also going up to the country, in about a week.

It was so nice to have the little visit with you yesterday. I also want to tell you about stopping into the Library and asking for your book - "Shawn" this morning. There was some mistake about the first order, so that a rush order has just been sent. The Librarian tells me that I should be able to get it in a few days.

I hope that we can arrange for a good visit before you leave for the country. Things are running more smoothly now at the office. We have just had word today of three re-instatements, so that we probably won't be so upset from now on.

As ever,

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

AUDREY McMAHON, Executive Secretary

THE ART BULLETIN
PARNASSUS
EASTERN ART
INDEX OF 20th CENTURY ARTISTS

137 East 57th Street, New York, N. Y.

September 17, 1934

Cable Address: "ARTSOCIATE"

Telephone WICKERSHAM 2-0537

Miss Katherine S. Dreier
The Haven
Redding, Connecticut

My dear Miss Dreier:

Thank you for your letter of September 14th. We are coming up on Friday, the 21st, but unfortunately cannot accept your kind invitation to lunch as one of our very best friends who lives near you asked us some time ago whether we would lunch with her whenever we came into the City, and I accepted her invitation tentatively before hearing from you.

Do you suggest that we leave New York early enough to reach you at about eleven o'clock and leave at 12:30 to lunch with my friends, or shall we come to you after lunch?

Thank you for the very explicit directions which I shall follow carefully.

With regard to the insurance in transit, we have a blanket policy which covers the paintings while they are in transit to New York.

I am looking forward to making your acquaintance and to seeing your collection.

John Shopley, President

Charles R. Morey, Vice-President

A. Philip McMahon, Secretary

Blake-More Godwin, Treasurer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Alfred V. Churchill, Mrs. Frances M. Pollak, David M. Robinson, Paul J. Sachs, Francis H. Taylor, Clarence Ward

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

September 28, 1934

Cable Address: "ARTSOCIATE"

Telephone WICKERSHAM 2-0537

Miss Katherine Dreier,
Colony Club,
Park Avenue & 62nd St.,
New York City.

My dear Miss Dreier:

I attach formal receipt for the paintings which we took from your home recently, all of which arrived in New York in perfect condition with the exception of the Lissitzky. This, as you know, was flaking in the tin foil area and the black was smudged. The smudging has not increased but the flaking has increased a little and I feel may do so even more. We are hanging the painting as it is in the New York exhibition, and as you are coming down to see it, perhaps we can confer as to what had best be done to protect the surface.

The painting by Covert I do not believe we can include in the exhibition which is unfortunately already overcrowded. I will hold it here as it is covered by insurance until I can make some arrangements for returning it to you, and will discuss this matter with you when I see you at the show early next month.

With regard to the Marin, we have come to the conclusion that unless we can secure a good Marin of a later date for the Expressionistic division of the exhibition, we had better omit his work completely, and we have not yet seen a Marin of a later date which we feel would be suitable for the exhibition. For this reason, I have placed the Marin under the heading of "doubtful", and if we do not exhibit it, will return it to you at the same time as the Covert, insuring it meanwhile.

Will you let me know who is lending the Klee and what the sales price of this and the Mondrian are?

The exhibition is to open in New York at the Junior League Galleries on October 15th. The itinerary follows:

Lawrence Hall Museum, November 12th to 24th

Taylor Hall Museum, December 3rd to 22nd

Dartmouth College, January 7th to 19th

Sweet Briar College, January 28th to February 9th

Cleverland Museum of Art, February 19th to March 24th

Florida State College, April 8th to 20th

Detroit Institute of Arts, May 7th to 28th

John Shapley, President

A. Philip McMahon, Secretary

Blake-More Godwin, Treasurer

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

137 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y.

September 28, 1934

Cable Address: "ARTSOCIATE"

Telephone WICKERSHAM 2-0537

Received from Katherine S. Dreier, Redding, Conn., for
exhibition purposes, the following paintings:

"Abstract Still Life", by Juan Gris, insurance value $1,000.
Lender, Societe Anonyme. Oil.

"Am Morgen im Blumen Garten" by Nolde, Oil, insurance value $800. Lender, Societe Anonyme.

"Fox-Trot", by Mondrian, insurance value $400, Oil,
Lender-the Artist

"Le Renversement" by Miro, Oil, insurance value $250,
Lender, Societe Anonyme

"Guter Fisch Platz" by Klee, insurance value $250, water color.
Lender -

"Devant le Jardin" by Leger, insurance value $500, Oil
Lender, Katherine Dreier

"Drawing For His Big Glass" by Marcel Duchamp, insurance value
$800, Lender-Katherine Dreier

"Futile Activity" by Katherine Dreier, insurance value $400, Oil
Lender-Katherine Dreier

"Proun 99" by Lissitzky, insurance value $800, Oil,
Lender-Societe Anonyme

Received, not to be exhibited:

"The Brass Band" by Covert, Oil, insurance $600. Lender, Katherine Dreier

Received, not certain to be exhibited:

"The Bridge", by Marin, water color, insurance $350,
Lender-Katherine Dreier

Audrey McMahon
Director of Exhibitions

John Shopley, President

A. Philip McMahon, Secretary

Blake-More Godwin, Treasurer

Received from Miss Dreier - West Redding - Conn.
the following pictures fully insured from
the time they left The Haven, Redding Conn.
until their return. (Give Date)

Juan Gris. Painted March 1916. Abstract Still Life.
Insurance I)XX
$1000.00

Formerly insured for 1400.00

Nolde. Painted: No Date. Am Morgen im Blumen Garten. Ins. 800.00

Marcel Duchamp. Drawing. Ins. 800.00

Mondrian.

Miro.

Marin.

Klee.

Leger.

Dreier.

Also:

John Covert.

Max Ernst.

Lissitzky.

Baumeister.

Kurt Schwitters.

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

October 20, 1934

Miss Katherine S. Dreier
Colony Club
64th Street & Park Avenue
New York City

Dear Miss Dreier:--

I take pleasure in sending you herewith a catalogue of the Eight Modes exhibition in which is listed some of the paintings which you lent to us. The exhibition will be on view at the Julien Levy Galleries, 602 Madison Avenue, from October 22 to November 3 and I hope that you will be able to visit the exhibition before it leaves New York.

November 25th 1934.

Dear Mrs. McMahon:

Thank you so much for your telegram. I was terribly disappointed that you were unable to come on the opening day - for we had a very distinguished group and a most lively and informal discussion which I think you would have enjoyed as much as Miss Morgan who was really thrilled by the exhibition and our discussion for it seemed so alive to her.

I was sorry that I could not meet you - but this living in the country certainly has many handicaps.

I hope that you went to see it and shall be interested to hear whether you would like to route it when you next want that type of work to go forth.

You saw how alive this selection was and how really comprehensive for so small a group as 19 paintings are. I think that the various periods were excellently represented and no one could tell on entering whether they had been painted by men or women. The quality is so high.

On the 10 they leave for a month for the Wadsworth Atheneum. Then the St. Ignatius must go to New Orleans where Mrs. Watson is having a large one-man show.

I do hope to be in New York for some weeks after Christmas and I shall look forward to seeing you then. In the mean time do drop me a line if this exhibition interests you at all. I think it is one of the best small things I have ever done and the first time that I have made an exhibition of women's work only. Something I don't generally believe in at all.

With kind regards, believe me,

Very sincerely

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

Cable Address: "ARTSOCIATE"

Telephone WICKERSHAM 2-0537

March 15, 1935.

Miss Katherine Dreier,
Great Northern Hotel,
New York City.

Dear Miss Dreier;

Mr. Warren Wheelock, an artist with whose work you are undoubtedly acquainted, is in urgent necessity of going to Italy for the purpose of bringing Mrs. Wheelock, who is quite ill, back to this country. At the present time this trip is a financial impossibility for Mr. Wheelock, and I am writing to interest a few of my friends in his plight.

Mr. Wheelock seeks to dispose, at very reasonable prices, of some of his major works in order to secure money for the passage, and I would be very happy to put you into personal contact with him should it be possible for you either to assist him yourself through purchase or to establish further contacts on his behalf.

I trust that you will not feel that I am abusing your kindness but Mr. Wheelock is an artist of such great talent that I am certain you would not have any cause to regret interest in his work.

John Shapley, President

A. Philip McMahon, Secretary

Blake-More Godwin, Treasurer

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

June 18th, 1935.

Cable Address: "ARTSOCIATE"

Telephone WICKERSHAM 2-0537

Miss Katherine S. Dreier,
West Redding,
Conn.

Dear Miss Dreier;

The paintings which you so kindly
lent to our exhibition of "Eight Modes of Modern
Painting" have just been returned to our headquarters.

I would like very much to bring them
up to West Redding and wonder whether the 8th of July
would be convenient for you. I would leave my office
at about five o'clock arriving in West Redding at seven.
Will you please let me know if this will be satisfactory.

John Shapley, President

A. Philip McMahon, Secretary

Blake-More Godwin, Treasurer

West Redding - Connecticut

July 17 1935

Mrs. Audrey McMahon, Director
Travelling Exhibition
College Art Association - 137 East 57th Street - New York City.

My dear Mrs. McMahon:

Ever since the paintings were delivered which I loaned the College Art Association for their Exhibition called - The 8 Modes - I have wanted to report to you that I found that my original frame selected for the painting by Leger had been changed and a heavy frame substituted tinted the color of the woman's gown.

Will you check up to see whether you have the original frame in your storage and if you have will you deliver it to George Of who is delivering some paintings - another loan - on Tuesday July 23rd - to The Haven,

If the frame is lost I must ask you to replace it through your insurance as this frame does not meet the picture as the original one did.

I also found that the back paper of the Klee was torn. I would like to have it rebacked.

Otherwise everything was in beautiful condition and I thank you for having the silver of the Lissitzky touched up.

If your insurance does not cover these repairs I will let it go - but I hope that these two items can receive attention.

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

625 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.

Phone: PLaza 5-0537

Honorary Directors

Walter W. S. Cook
Charles R. Morey
David M. Robinson
Paul J. Sachs

Directors

President:
Frederick B. Deknatel

Vice-President:
G. Haydn Huntley

Secretary:
Esther I. Seaver

Treasurer:
Mark Eisner

Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Agnes Rindge Claflin
Sumner McK. Crosby
Lamar Dodd
George H. Forsyth, Jr.
Lloyd Goodrich
Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr.
Henry R. Hope
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Fiske Kimball
Rensselaer W. Lee
Amy Woller McClelland
Ulrich Middeldorf
Stephen C. Pepper
David M. Robb
Charles H. Sawyer

PUBLICATIONS:

ART BULLETIN
Charles L. Kuhn, Editor

COLLEGE ART JOURNAL
Henry R. Hope, Editor

PLACEMENT BUREAU

Business Manager
Peter Magill

November 6, 1948

Miss Katherine S. Dreier
130 West River St.
Milford, Conn.

Dear Miss Dreier:

This is a special invitation to you as one active
in the field of art to become a member of the College Art
Association of America.

The Association is the one society in the United States
whose purpose is to promote both teaching and scholarship in
the field of Fine Arts. Our membership includes teachers and
scholars in art and art history in colleges and universities;
museum directors and members of museum staffs; collectors and
amateurs of art. We are proud that our membership now is the
highest in the thirty-seven years of our existence. At the
present time we have about sixteen hundred members throughout
the world.

The privileges of membership in the Association include
subscription to our publications, the *Art Bulletin* and the
*College Art Journal*. The *Art Bulletin* is universally recog-
nized as one of the foremost scholarly publications in the
world. *The College Art Journal* deals with topics of special
interest to teachers and collectors of art, and to discussions
of problems of current interest in our field.

Each year the Association holds a general meeting, lasting three days, at which discussions take place on scholarly problems and problems of art education and where all members of our profession have an opportunity of meeting each other and exchanging views.

I hope very much that you will become a member, not
only to gain the privileges of membership but also in order
to take part in our activities in advancing the study of art.

P. S. Individual members of the Association may also
subscribe to other art magazines at reduced rates,
and may purchase practically all current art books
at a discount of 25%. These savings in many cases,
amount to more than the cost of membership dues.