May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
THE ART WORLD: "I HAVE A MILD CURIOSITY ABOUT IT AT TIMES" O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA. Autograph Letter Signed, to New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison, praising the straightforward writing on art by New Republic contributor Frank Getlein, confessing an occasional mild curiosity about the art world, and wondering why no article by Getlein has been published recently. 3 pages, 4to, written on separate sheets, onionskin paper; horizontal folds. Albuquerque, 25 March 1961
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"I don't really consider myself anyone's 'Fan,' but I always look for what Frank Getlein writes on Art. He states clearly and simply what he thinks about what he has looked at and I find it a pleasure to read . . . .
". . . I see very little of what is going on in the art world and I have to confess that I have a mild curiosity about it at times. . . .
"There is only one other person writing on art that I am always looking for--but we do not need to go into that.
"Getlein has not had anything in the New Republic for several numbers. What have you done with him? How am I to be a little bit informed in my country life without a telephone, radio or television, if you don't keep him writing more often? . . ."