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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK TELEPHONE. CIRCLE 7-7470

FOR RELEASE Thursday, November 7̂ .935

Under the chairmanship of Mrs. John S. Shoppard, the Membership

Committee of The Museum of Modern Art has arranged a opoclal mooting

and luncheon for Out-of-Town Chairmen of the Committee to be held to- '

*day (Thursday, November 7) in the library of the Museum, 11 West 53

Street, to discuss the extonsion work of the Museum throughout the

country.

Mrs* John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has invited the members of the

Committee to visit hor home during the afternoon to see some- of hor

paintings and to hear a brief address by Dr. Artemas Packard, head of Br

the Department of Art and Archeology at Dartmouth College. After the

visit to Mrs. Rockefeller's homo the members of the Committee will go

||:At;& the residence of Mrs. Samuel Lewisohn, who has invited them to see

^ the Lewisohn art collection. While at the home of Mrs. Lewisohn the w& • Committee will listen to a talk on Vincent van Gogh by Alfred H. Barr,

Jr., Director of the Museum, which will be broadcast over Station WEAF

and network on the Women's Radio Rev lev/ at four p.m.

The Membership Committee consists of Mrs. John S. Sheppard, Chair-.man; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mrs. William S. Cowles, Mrs. William T. Emmet, Jr., Mrs. Walter Hochschild, Mrs. David Franklin Houston, Mrs. O'Donnell Iselln, Mrs. T. Catesby Jones, Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn, Mrs. John Parkinson,Jr., Mrs. Ernest C. Poole, Mrs. Baillie Ripley, Mrs. J.

; D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mr. Harold Sterner, Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller, Mrs. Artemas L. Gates, Mr. Alfred Easton Poor, Mrs. John D.W. Churchill, Mr. John D. Kennedy

' -IJrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mrs. Stanley Resor.

Out-of-Town Chairmen of the Membership Committee who will attend the meeting are Mrs. Robert Hillyor, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.; Mrs. Ernest'. ICanzlor, Mr- Robdrt TaKnahlll, Mr. John Newberry.Jr.# DETROIT, MICH. Mrs. August Morrison, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.; Mrs. Henry H. Townshend, NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Mrs. Wm. K. Prentice, PRINCETON, N. J.; Mrs. Charles A. kbblhson, Jr., PROVIDENCE, R.I.; Mrs. Francis Cunningham, ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Mrs. W. DeRenne, SAVANNAH, GA.; Mrs. Clifford W. Gaylord, ST. LOUIS, MO.; Mrs. McCook Knox, WASHINGTON, D.C.; Miss Elizabeth W. White, •RABERBDRIJ 1C0NN.; Mrs. M. Bullitt, LOUISVILLE, KY. Miss Louisa Dresser WORCESTER, MASS.

Out-of-Town Chairmen not attending the meeting are Mrs. Thomas Robins., BUFFALO, N.Y.; Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeod, CHICAGO, ILL.; Mrs. Malcolm McBrlde, CLEVELAND, OHIO; Mrs. Charles H. Chadwick, pAIil BEACH, FLA.; Mrs. Geo. A. Hill Jr. .HOUSTON, TEXAS; Miss Pinky Bell, PITTSBURGH, PA* Mr. Walter G. Davis,,PORTLAND, ME.; Mrs. Montague Charman, SYRACUSE, N.Y.; Mrs. Wm. J.R. Alexander, CINCINNATI, OHIO; Mrs. Meredith Hare, COLORADO; Mrs. Francis Goodwin, HARTFORD, CONN.; Mrs. John Bakewo11, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.; Miss Olive Rush, SANTA FE,

TB•-•• N.MEX. ; Miss Alice O'Brien, ST, PAUL, MINN.; Mrs. Harold Symonds, IT TICA, N.Y.

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