BIB_ID
332380
Accession number
MA 8010.12
Creator
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1971-1974].
Credit line
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Description
1 item (2 p.) : ill. ; 27.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Illustrated with a small sketch of an oak leaf and fallen acorn.
Location of writing from return address and 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.
Possible years of writing based on postage stamp (8 cents), which was the domestic letter rate in the United States from May 16, 1971 to March 1, 1974.
Pre-stamped envelope with postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Location of writing from return address and 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.
Possible years of writing based on postage stamp (8 cents), which was the domestic letter rate in the United States from May 16, 1971 to March 1, 1974.
Pre-stamped envelope with postmark is addressed to Varujan Boghosian in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Provenance
Purchased on the Horace Goldsmith Fund for Americana, 2012.
Summary
Thanking him for the "lovely, generous, beautiful gift - a genuine Boghosian!" Regretting that he is unable to attend the opening of his exhibit the following week but hoping it is "a great triumph and a complete sell-out!"
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