?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ARRANGING FOR A TOURING EXHIBITION OF HIS PAINTINGS KENT, ROCKWELL. Three letters, each Signed, to gallerist Mildred Taylor, including an Autograph Letter with a small ink and wash drawing and two Typed Letters, notifying her of the shipper of his paintings, enclosing the exhibition pricelist [not present], noting that the list is missing one $900 painting and making a drawing of it, reporting that plates of his works are to be published in a book [by Albert & Charles Boni, likely the new edition of Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)], promising to send photographs and text, hoping to send exhibition to Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles, expressing gratitude for her efforts organizing the exhibition and its tour, and hoping to add the Chicago Art Institute to the exhibition tour schedule. The drawing, thumbnail sketch whose parts are labelled in holograph ("Blue sky," "White cloud," "Orange fields," etc.), drawn at lower center of first page of ALS, 2x3½ inches. Together 3½ pages, 4to, personal stationery or on recto and verso of onionskin paper; few short closed edge tears and loss of lower right corner of ALS, folds. Ausable Forks, NY, 13 August; 4; 26 October 1928
ALS, 13 August 1928: "W.S. Budworth & Son . . . are about to pack and ship to the East-West Gallery 23 or more paintings--the exact number depends on . . . being able to get some from two New York dealers . . . . "I enclose a list of titles and prices of the pictures I am certain are going . . . . "There is one Irish painting (20'' x 30'') of which I forgot to note the title. It is pasted on the back. It looks like this [drawing]. Its price is $900. "The publishers of Creative Art unfortunately plan to use the plates of my pictures in a book--so they are not available. I am having photographs sent to you and also . . . a cut that was used in the catalogue of my 1927 exhibition in New York. . . . "Mr. Merle Armitage . . . has written me that Mr. Earl Stendahl of the Stendahl Gallery at the Ambassador Hotel wants to stage the exhibition there. Armitage recommends him highly so I'm inclined to say yes if it's agreeable to your plans. . . ." 26 October 1928: "The Chicago Art Institute has written to me asking to have my exhibition come there and I have instructed them to write to you about it. I am entirely willing to have my show stay in the west for several months more, provided it can be returned to Chicago in time for a show there. . . ."
