and for this reason I am anxious to do more than my share to bring about such a possibility. I think that for about $225.00 numbers One to Thirty-six could be furnished. Several Numbers of Camera Work are selling at $100.00 a piece.

I merely mention this as the time will come when Camera Work will have become so rare that one will not be able to have complete sets at any price.

Very truly yours,

The Intimate Gallery, Room 303
The Anderson Galleries
489 Park Avenue, New York City

Robert B. Harshe, Esq.,
Director Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.,

Dear Mr. Harshe

Your favor of March 27 to hand. The thirty
Marins are ready for W. S. Budworth and Son who have written
me they would call on April 5 or 6. I am enclosing a list
of the pictures which are being forwarded. Furthermore, each
picture has on its back full title, date and chronological
number and price.

I hope you will find the collection satis-
factory and that it will give pleasure to the Chicagoans. I
have kept the prices for the pictures particularly low. Maybe
a few Marins may find homes in Chicago. But if nothing
happens outside of the real interest shown, why it will be
all right. I will understand and so will Marin.

Please notice that when you are through with
the pictures they are to be returned to

George F. Of, 274 Madison Avenue
New York City

Please see to it that there is no mistake made about this
return address because I will probably be out of town for the
summer when the pictures are returned. The Intimate Gallery
will then be closed. George F. Of is our agent.

In case you wish any particular data about
Marin I refer you to "Port of New York" by Paul Rosenfeld,
now published by the Dial Press in New York. Ansplendid
article by Louis Kalonyme is on page 52 of Arts and Decoration
for February, 1926. There is also A. E. Gallatin's book,
"American Water Colorists" with extended reference to Marin.
Of course there is an extensive Marin literature. In case you
want further particulars I could give them to you. Marin can
always be reached care of myself.

Very truly yours

31 March 1926.

N.B. According to agreement it is understood that the Art
Institute of Chicago is assuming all responsibility and risk
for loss or damage to the Marins from the time they leave the
Intimate Gallery until they are returned to George F. Of, 274
Madison Avenue, New York City. The value of the thirty
pictures is $20,250.

January 29, 1941

Mr. Daniel Glatton Rich
Director of Fine Arts
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

My dear Mr. Rich:

Miss O'Keeffe turned over to me your letter to her of December 18, 1940.

You are to have the quoted "Ram's Head and White
Hollyhock, New Mexico, 1935" for your fall showing.
It is, of course, understood that your Institute
assumes full risk for the painting from the time
it leaves An American Place until its return thereto.
This was done by Mr. St. Gaudens for the Carnegie
Exhibition. The insurance value of this painting
is $8,000. I repeat: your Institute is assuming
all responsibility. Neither Miss O'Keeffe nor An
American Place carry any insurance, nor do we in-
sure when on rare occasions, things go out.

I know that your Institute has certain principles.
I ran up against them a few years ago. You undoubtedly
are under the false impression that An American Place
is a business, and that I am an art dealer. An American
Place is in no way a business, and I have never been in
the art business directly or indirectly in the fifty
years that I have been doing the particular work for
which there is a record.

I shall send you the card with the necessary data when
I hear from you that the Art Institute assumes all respon-
sibility and insures the picture against loss or any
damage.

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

POTTER PALMER, President

CHARLES H. WORCESTER, Honorary President

WALTER B. SMITH, Treasurer

ROBERT ALLERTON, Vice-President

PERCY B. ECKHART, Vice-President

CHAUNCEY McCORMICK, Vice-President

RUSSELL TYSON, Vice-President

DANIEL CATTON RICH, Director of Fine Arts

CHARLES H. BURKHOLDER, Director of Finance and Operation

CHARLES FABENS KELLEY, Assistant Director

TELEPHONE CENTRAL 7080

January 21, 1943

Dear Mr. Stieglitz:

At a recent meeting of the Committee on Painting and Sculpture, it was voted to purchase the fine John Marin water color, Cape Split, Maine, for the sum of $2000. There is only one string, and I do not think this a serious one. We are very anxious to have an exhibit of Marin's water colors in our Twenty-second International Exhibition of Water Colors, to be held from May 13 to August 22, 1943. As you know, the last group of Marin's work was shown at the museum in 1925. It is my idea to concentrate on the artist's later development, say of the last seventeen or eighteen years. We would need about twenty-five or, at the most, thirty examples. Here is the string: Should the Trustees admire any of the water colors shown in Mr. Marin's projected show more than the one now up for purchase, would it be possible for them to turn this one in on the purchase price of another? I don't think there is much chance of this happening, but the Board seemed to think it a possibility. Personally I am more and more delighted with the one we picked out and feel that it will remain in Chicago.

I am so sorry that Miss O'Keeffe has been under the weather. Her exhibit looks superb. We are anxious to acquire one of her paintings, and will discuss this with her as soon as she feels like talking the matter over with me. She is certainly very much improved, but we are sad to have missed so much of her during this period.

I have sent you a first copy of the catalogue, and you will be receiving the fifty copies you desire within the next few days.

With kind regards always,

Mr. Alfred Stieglitz
An American Place
509 Madison Ave.
New York, N. Y.

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

POTTER PALMER, President

WALTER B. SMITH, Treasurer

RUSSELL TYSON, Vice-President

TELEPHONE CENTRAL 7080

January 26, 1943

Dear Mr. Stieglitz:

Thank you for your cordial letter of January 22.
We are sending you fifty more catalogs. We have not as yet received
the final cost sheet from the printers, but the catalogs will pre-
sumably run about seventy-five cents each. We are selling ours at
$1.

The exhibition is superb and I am even more de-
lighted with it than I thought I would be. It was fine having
O'Keeffe here and I am only sorry that she had this unpleasant ill-
ness which cut short all the things we had planned.

It is a pity that you are not to see the exhibi-
tion on the walls, for O'Keeffe has adjusted each picture so that the
showing is in a sense an O'Keeffe abstraction.

As I told her, I shall be in New York February 15
and will look forward to spending an evening with you both.

With kindest regards to you and Miss O'Keeffe, I
remain

Mr. Alfred Stieglitz
An American Place
509 Madison Avenue
New York City, New York

AN AMERICAN PLACE
509 Madison Avenue, Room 1710
New York City

February 25, 1943

Mr. Daniel Catton Rich
Chicago Art Institute
Chicago, Illinois

My dear Mr. Rich:

I am enclosing a memorandum for the Marin you have, as I said I would send it to you. Pardon my delay.

It was good to see you and to have had a talk with you.

The twenty-five Marins, which are to go to you when you are ready to have them called for, are being cleaned up and gotten ready so that they will be in perfect shape for you. Let me know when Mr. Budworth is to call for them. With kindest greetings and cordial respect,

Most sincerely,

PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY: ORIGINAL MATERIAL RESTRICTED

509 Maddison Ave.
New York City

March 22, 1943

Mr. Daniel Catton Rich
Director
Art Institute
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mr. Rich,

In my letter to you I forgot to say that it would be wisest not to print the Marin prices in your cat alone.

I expected Budworth's to call for the Marins this morning, but so far they have not turned up. The Marins are ready.

And I repeat that I hope they will not only give you great pleasure living with them, but will give great pleasure to hosts of people - artists and lovers of art.

Once more my thanks and greetings.

Cordially,

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

CHAUNCEY McCORMICK, President

WALTER B. SMITH, Treasurer and Vice-President

RUSSELL TYSON, Vice-President

WALTER S. BREWSTER, Vice-President

CHICAGO 3 ILLINOIS TELEPHONE CENTRAL 7080

June 15, 1945

Dear Mr. Stieglitz:

It was very pleasant seeing you last week and I greatly enjoyed the Dove Exhibition. Would it be possible for us to borrow for our Fifty-sixth Annual American Exhibition: Oil Paintings, the horizontal brown and green painting, the second from the left, I believe, on the north wall? The exhibition will run from October 25, 1945 to January 1, 1946. We would, of course, pay for the cost of collection and shipment and insure the picture while it is in transit and on view here.

I am enclosing an invitation card for the work, and if it is available, we should be glad to have the card filled out and returned to us at your early convenience. As you know, a commission of fifteen percent is charged by the Art Institute when a sale is effected.

Hoping that you will find it possible to grant our request, and with kindest regards, I remain

Mr. Alfred Stieglitz
An American Place
509 Madison Avenue
New York City 22, N. Y.