BIB_ID
332334
Accession number
MA 8010.6
Creator
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1973 Dec. 30].
Credit line
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Description
1 item (2 p.) : ill. ; 27.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Illustrated with a sketch of several faceless head-and-shoulders figures in a landscape with a setting sun and rising moon.
Location of writing from postmark and return address stamp; date 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 additional stamp and postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Location of writing from postmark and return address stamp; date 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 additional stamp and postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Provenance
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Summary
Saying how happy he is to hear about Boghosian's sales, noting that "it means progress for us all" and remarking that things are "straightening out" for Guston as well. Mentioning that the gallery director has visited to see his new work, which is "way out," noting that he was initially nervous about it but that on later inspection it is "rather exciting and new!" Emphatically stating that "ART IS NOT A LIE!" and mentioning that he is "thinking up new titles for the paintings -- mysterious ones -- give future Art-Historians real trouble."
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