Dedicated to 'Alfred Barr (the famous head and founding director of MOMA, New York from Wilhelm Rheinhold Valentiner American Museum director responsible for the development of major American art museum collections) - in black ink at top right hand corner. Catalogue of a show at Detroit curated by Valentiner who brought German scholarship and developed American contemporary art collections throughout post-war America. 12pp orange paper in self-covers with introduction by Valentiner. Artist included are:
Darrel Austin, Milton Avery, Harry Bertoia, John Carroll, Lyonel Feininger, Lee Gatch, Morris Graves, Marsden Hartley, Karl Knaths, Dan Lutz, Loren Maciver, John Marin, George L K Morris, Horrace Pippin, Clayton S Price, Fernando Puma, Abraham Rattner, Louis Schanker, Mark Toby, Max Weber, Arthur G Dove.
An interesting historical item.