BIB_ID
432842
Accession number
MA 23471.2
Creator
Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972.
Display Date
Los Angeles, California, 1949 February 2.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.8 x 18.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Berman gives the place of writing as "L.A. 28. Cal. / Villa Carlotta."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr. James Thrall Soby / 29 Mountain Spring Road / Farmington Conn."
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.1, MA 23471.3, and MA 23471.4.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr. James Thrall Soby / 29 Mountain Spring Road / Farmington Conn."
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.1, MA 23471.3, and MA 23471.4.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2502, lot 256, 21 March 2019.
Summary
Recommending an exhibition of the paintings of "a young friend of mine Bill Brice at the Downtown Galley on Feb 14th"; praising Brice's work and development; mentioning in a postscript that he was supposed to have gone to Mexico but complications have arisen and "I am still here, rather sad, but working quite well"; sending greetings to Soby and his wife Eleanor (called "Nellie" here).
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