BIB_ID
332354
Accession number
MA 8010.8
Creator
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1974 Mar. 28].
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 a landscape in which "Me" [Guston] appears to be digging a hole or a grave, from which a ladder projects; a car drives by in the background and the sun (with a clock-face) sits at the horizon.
Location of writing from postmark and return address; date of writing from postmark.
N.B. An exhibit of Guston's work, "New Paintings," was on view in 1974 at Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery.--Cf. Dore Ashton. A critical study of Philip Guston (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. xv.
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; date of writing from postmark.
N.B. An exhibit of Guston's work, "New Paintings," was on view in 1974 at Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery.--Cf. Dore Ashton. A critical study of Philip Guston (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. xv.
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
Thanking him for sending a review of his exhibit at B.U.; noting that the review is okay, but that he is getting weary of "talk about crude-childish shapes, etc." Remarking, however, that "they said the same about Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, etc." and that "once it gets into Art History, reproduced, and gets the Museum seal of approval then it becomes ART." Noting that he is exhausted and praising Boghosian's sketches in his last letter.
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