[Cover Title]: A Statement on Modern Art by The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Museum of Modern Art New York [and the] Whitney Museum of American Art New York

Boston / New York: ICA / MoMA / Whitney, (1950).

Price: $100.00

Unbound. First edition. Folio sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 8½" x 11" closed. Folded twice for mailing, moderate wear and soil, very good. A statement by the three museums, "governing their relation to contemporary art": affirming its validity and humanistic value, questioning its "so-called 'unintelligibility,'" stating their belief in the artist's "spiritual and social role," and so on. Although not so marked, from the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn.

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Item #618969 [Cover Title]: A Statement on Modern Art by The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Museum of Modern Art New York [and the] Whitney Museum of American Art New York. James PLAUT, Rene d'Harnoncourt, directors Hermon More.