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Browse All : Rivers and World Atlas and Case Map by Starling, ThomasTitle
letter
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"This picture was taken during our summer trip in Oregon, with Dennis [Adrian]. It's on top of Paulina Point. We thought of you." Photograph not with letter.
Date
June 6, 1978
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letter
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He and Anne [Abrons] enjoyed their visit with HCW and JBW.
Date
October 5, 1978
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letter
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Relieved to hear HCW is on the mend. He would like to see slides of Joanna's current work. They are leaving Madrid for Paris soon.
Date
October 11, 1974
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letter
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They are wintering in France. He has begun working on a book and "Susan's become a drudge." They will take a trip to Florence in March-April and then will head back west and would like to visit HCW.
Date
February 2, 1975
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letter
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He's become disenchanted with some traveling. He is still involved with the same film company. They have given him a new mobile home at the beach near Malibu to live in. In Feb. they are moving to Santa Monica to a home that was the residence of Charles Eames' private secretary.
Date
January 2, 1979
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letter
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They haven't been in touch lately and he wants to correct this. He's going to have a show at David Stuart's gallery--large paintings. He has started teaching sculpture and media at UC Irvine and has to drive 100 miles round trip which scares him. He has made it to the final 5 in L.A. Harbor Commission's sculpture competition.
Date
August 11, 1979
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Family news. Penny taught Greg to hate all of his relatives. On "Gaye Sheehan" stationary.
Date
January 17, 1973
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letter
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Enjoyed HCW’s letter about getting drunk and losing his false teeth. Really enjoyed Joanna’s show. Mentions the Crackup Gallery (Robert Delford Brown) and William Copley.
Date
February 6, 1973
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letter
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Enclosed 2 slides from a cemetery in Richmond, VA: a 60 ft. mortar-less pyramid and a monolith with an anchor on it. The cemetery contains graves of Confederate soldiers “buried in formation.”
Date
February 9, 1973
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letter
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Enclosing copies of "my entire collection of Cliff's that I have in my possession, only one item from World War II days is included…." Enclosures no longer with letter, except for a newspaper clipping with an note about HCW, from 1974.
Date
January 16, 1987
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letter
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He and Cindy are fine. He's started golfing again. He misses them and hopes to see them again soon.
Date
May 5, 1981
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letter
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The tree people, surveyors, Culligan man, Mrs. Clark and Tom McDuffy are all here today; Effie is a clinging vine and J. plays table games, Chinese checkers, etc., with her every night. She misses her Burning House; would love to see the lithos. She's beginning to enjoy driving the truck. Mentions the Tuchman party HCW attended. Bill Copley sent a note--Joanna sent him HCW's address.
Date
September 12, 1968
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She's been working on the baffle-board. They received an invitation for an event in NY and she's started one of those "postcard-like palm tree things" in oil. She's fallen in love with Mona Lisa crayons. Mrs. Clark [neighbor] has moved the property marker and J. moved it back.
Date
April 23, 1971
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She went to the show of 26 women artists at the Aldrich, but it wasn't very good. Rhett Brown called and said someone was interested in buying the one [a painting by JBW] with the dog. She spray painted the truck with lacquer. Eldon Dannhausen (AIC) called and wants HCW to jury a show.
Date
April 27, 1971
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letter
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(Des Moines Art Center) Phantom in a Wooden Garden arrived today in excellent condition.
Date
February 10, 1977
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letter
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Mentions Ed Janss and HCW's trip to Mexico on the boat. HCW’s suitcase is at a friend’s house in NYC. Mentions "Brownie" [Robert Delford Brown] and Rhett [Delford Brown].
Date
April 10, 1974
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letter
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(Dept of the Navy) Response to HCW’s letter requesting his son’s (Greg Westermann) address.
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n.d.
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letter
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(U.S. House of Representatives) Thanks for letter of support. HCW among the growing number of people who agree with him that we must decrease nuclear weapons, and accelerate attempts to phase out world hunger.
Date
July 7, 1978
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[Painter and Printmaker, Colorado] Get well wishes
Date
February 11, 1974
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(Artists Equity Association, Inc.) Sen. Harrison Williams’ Art Bank Bill (S.2645) has a chance of being signed; hearings scheduled for 8/22 and 8/23/78. HCW’s
presence in Washington is needed; if not, a letter of support would be appreciated.
Date
August 1, 1978
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Recounts the story of his sister's recent death from cancer.
Date
January 23, 1981
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letter
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A senior at Topeka High School, Kansas. Saw HCW's work at the Spencer Art Museum, enjoyed it and asks several questions about HCW's drawings.
Date
April 27, 1989
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letter
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(University of Connecticut) Request to
include HCW’s work in an exhibition at the
Jorgensen Gallery next spring. Details as to
the scope of the exhibit.
Date
February 6, 1976
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letter
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Thanks for letter. Mentions Joanna having a show out west. Sarah will be a visiting artist at the Art Institute of Chicago in December. They are stunned and appreciative of a gift given to them by HCW/JBW.
Date
October 4, 1974
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letter
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Enclosed a receipt for Indian Lookout. Mentions prints sold at Corcoran’s and Waddington in London and encloses list. (enclosures not with letter)
Date
January 11, 1980
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letter
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When Barbara [Haskell] asked him to work on HCW’s show a year ago he didn’t know HCW’s work at all, but he took to it immediately. He feels proud to have gotten to know HCW and Joanna.
Date
June 3, 1978
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Would like to set up a meeting in NYC to discuss HCW’s work.
Date
July 7, 1966
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Thank for the interview. Asks a few supplementary questions for the article. Mentions that Dennis Adrian was also at the interview.
Date
July 29, 1966
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letter
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The L.A. County Museum [LACMA] show will go on to Washington Gallery of Modern Art. He has arranged for five of HCW’s large pieces to go to Documenta in Germany this summer. "Object Under Pressure" is at the ICA in London and Defoliated is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mentions Kasper König and Robert Barnes.
Date
April 19, 1968
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Thanks for fixing U.F.O. and for the set of woodcuts. They need to discuss pricing them and whether or not HCW is going to make a folder for them. Everything is ready for the show in Massachusetts and the Venice Biennial.
Date
March 1, 1976
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letter
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Good seeing HCW at [Robert Delford] Brown opening. Beginning to put up Peter Saul's show. Enclosing a check.
Date
November 1, 1971
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Enclosed check. Went to the opening of the new Hirshhorn Museum in D.C.
Date
October 3, 1974
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Congratulation on the show. He likes Cliff the most, with Joanna’s painting in it. Enclosed the last of the Panchos [cigars], and is unhappy that “the old fart decided to go out of business.” Writes about his own work. Would like to commission HCW to make a piece for his son Jason’s first birthday.
Date
May 21, 1970
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(card with drawing of Springwood Lane East Hampton, NY)Thanks for the drawing the Island in Flames. “Columns dancing on the lawn, the clam digger enroute to work, T. Smith transposed in a minimal way and the island engulfed in flames.” Relates a story about how Fire Island got it’s name.
Date
September 6, 1980
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(New York Times) Thanks for the letter—has always enjoyed HCW’s work.
Date
June 30, 1978
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She has cancer and the oil painting she bought from HCW many years ago will go to her brother, Herbert Reis, in New York, in case HCW should ever wish to borrow it for an exhibit.
Date
July 28, 1978
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letter
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He enjoyed the recent visit with HCW. Mentions "The Last Ray of Hope" from the AIC, his earliest memory of HCW's sculpture.
Date
February 19, 1979
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letter
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Saw HCW’s Antimobile, Death Ship, and drawings at the Whitney and Frumkin’s. Enclosed a collage and strange photograph. (Neither included with letter)
Date
April 2, 1976
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(School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Request for HCW to be a visiting artist.
Date
May 10, 1967
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[Art Dealer/Consultant/Hansen Fuller Gallery?] Sorry to have missed HCW at the Whitney opening. She purchased one of HCW’s watercolors for a client. Saw Alan Press’s collection of HCW’s work.
Date
March 31, 1977
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(Office of Admissions, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Letter of acceptance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, acknowledgement of receipt of $20 deposit to hold HCW's place for September 1947. Enclosed is a duplicate copy of "Acceptance for Admission - Day School Classes" card.
Date
April 1, 1947
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The Death Ship of No Port is beautiful.
Date
May 12, 1970
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He loved "that death on a white horse."
Date
October 31, 1973
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Refers to a vise that HCW gave him.
Date
November 6, 1973
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Thanks for the cigar boxes. He enjoyed the show and flew home in a Beechcraft—“like a Jules Verne voyage in the sky.”
Date
May 28, 1978
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letter
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(UCLA) Offers a teaching appointment on a full or part-time basis.
Date
May 23, 1975
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letter
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(Rochester Institute of Technology) Request for HCW to present slide lecture.
Date
February 6, 1973
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letter
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(State University College, Oneonta, NY) Would like to interview HCW for a book on the techniques of sculpture, edited by David Klahn.
Date
November 17, 1970
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letter
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Description of Guggenheim Museum group show, for January 13th-February 27th, 1972. Physical dimensions of galleries to be used for the show, list of the participating artists, including Romare Bearden, Willem de Kooning, Red Grooms, Mary Frank, and Maryan.
Date
April 16, 1971
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