BIB_ID
381674
Accession number
MA 5659.20
Creator
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970.
Display Date
ca. 1944.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Approximate date is based on Rothko's reference to his exhibition that "opens on January 9th"; this was probably his first one-man exhibit at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery that ran from Jan. 9 to Feb. 4, 1945.
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Hoping Rodríguez Feo received the picture he mailed to him and his "enjoyment of it continues"; telling him that his exhibition "opens on January 9th and will miss [Rodríguez Feo] when it occurs"; adding that "work of this sort does not gather friends quickly and therefore the absence of those you have is doubly felt"; remarking that he has not heard from Rodríguez Feo's Cuban friends and guesses "they are lost forever."
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