An American artist, whose gift of a portrait of Dr. Albert Einstein to the Treasury Department brought the record price of $1,000,000 in U.S. bonds, today asked the Soviet Government to remove from the walls of the Moscow Museum of Modern Western Art 15 of his pictures as a “cultural protest” against the current “outrageous anti-Semitic turn of events.”
Paul Meltsner, whose series of pictures depicting industrial scenes in the U.S. is the largest single collection of the work of an American artist hanging in a Moscow museum, said that he sent a letter to this effect to Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin in Washington. The text of his letter was made public through the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
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