BIB_ID
332332
Accession number
MA 8010.4
Creator
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
Display Date
"Sat[urday]" [1972] Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Location of writing from postmark and return address stamp.
Part of a collection of letters from Philip Guston to American sculptor Varujan Boghosian. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Pre-stamped envelope with additional stamp and postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian, "Artist," in Hanover, New Hampshire, and with the additional autograph note "Please Forward."
Part of a collection of letters from Philip Guston to American sculptor Varujan Boghosian. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Pre-stamped envelope with additional stamp and postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian, "Artist," in Hanover, New Hampshire, and with the additional autograph note "Please Forward."
Provenance
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Summary
Thanking him and Marilyn for a lovely evening, noting how much he and Musa enjoyed visiting them in [Provincetown]. Mentioning that they spent some time in Worcerster after leaving them and needed a rest to recover from their vacation. Noting that he is having some difficulty starting to paint again and remarking "I don't think artists should take vacations! That's for Bankers and Stock Brokers." Reporting that his gallery sold a painting to "some nut, I guess, in Canada."
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