Phone 9993 Melbourne

The People's Art Guild

918 Cauldwell Avenue

New York City

Dec. 30, 1916

Mr. Henry McBride,
258 West 22nd Street
New York City.

Dear Mr. McBride:

Our Guild is installing a New Art exhibition at the Parish House of the Church of the Ascension, 12 West 11th Street. There are about seventy pictures by Benn, Benton, Covert, Cramer, Demuth, Daniel Perain, Dickinson, Dove, Duncan Ferat, Fisk, Ryther, Halpert, Gussow, Haviland, Hartley, Manolo, Marin, M. Maurer, McFee, Metzinger, Of, O'Keefe, Pach, Pandick, Parker, Picabia, Picasso, Rivera, Russell, Stella, Schamberg, Sheeler, Stevens, Walkowitz, Weber, Wright, and the Zorachs.

As in all of our Guild exhibitions, there will be good lectures given in the exhibition hall. For the Ascension series of art talks - on successive Sundays - during January and February, at 2.30 - our Hanging Committee for the Ascension is inviting Messrs Tridon, Kerfoot, Wright, Brinton, etc...

The members of our Ascension Committee (Cramer, Halpert, Weber, Zorach) wish to enlist your cooperation for this series of lectures, and request you to choose your topic and date at your earliest convenience, so that it may be announced together with other lectures in the catalog for this exhibition now in preparation. The meritorious Show forming a background, the Church House lending a unique environment for Cubism and Futurism, our Guild supplying a noncommercial unbiased spirit - these lectures at the Ascension can not fail to have a memorable effect. Of course, we shall give them ample publicity.

Please, consider this invitation as an appeal in the name of the Modern Art Movement, - for, I feel, we cannot presume to claim your support for our very young and little known Guild. At these lectures, Guild propaganda shall not conspicuously intrude upon the scientific object of the day.

Yours, most sincerely,

& Committee