"The cubists and subsequent rebels have made fresh assaults upon the rapidly weakening opposition"

	Installation view, "Road to Victory." May 21, 1942 through October 4, 1942. Photograph ©1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Torpedo" diagrams of the ideal permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, as advanced in 1933 (top) and in 1941 (bottom). Prepared by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., for the "Advisory Committee Report on Museum Collections," 1941. Photograph ©1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York HYPERLINK

ÒIt is not intended that this shall be a self-sufficient or legal institution. Its influence should be country-wide. The dealers of New York have performed a courageous service in introducing work of unknown men to Metropolitan attention, but they have not been able to penetrate the interior except in a few of the larger cities. Gauguin is still anathema in many places. For the hinter-land a more authoritative and disinterested sponsorship is necessary, and in this direction the Museum of Modern Art will find perhaps its most fruitful field.Ó