BIB_ID
332333
Accession number
MA 8010.5
Creator
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
Display Date
"Mon[day]" [1973] July 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Location of writing from postmark and return address stamp; year of writing from postmark.
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 postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire, and with the additional autograph note "Please Forward." Forwarded in an unknown hand to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Written on a printed press release "Metropolitan Museum Exhibits Drawings by Philip Guston."
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 postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire, and with the additional autograph note "Please Forward." Forwarded in an unknown hand to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Written on a printed press release "Metropolitan Museum Exhibits Drawings by Philip Guston."
Provenance
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Summary
Remarking that he thought Boghosian would be interested to know about Guston's show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, noting "it looks fine, a good selection of drawings, mostly things from my walls, that I hold on to." Mentioning that although he has only been "so so," he has been working a lot all year and has made excellent sales of works to museums and private collectors. Asking for news about Boghosian and about mutual acquaintances.
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