Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1967.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1967.

Weyhe Gallery displayed works by Dorothy Brett early in her career. Her breathless letters to Zigrosser are full of the progress of her painting; details of life in Taos; difficulty of selling her work and placing it with dealers; praise of her work by John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz, and Awa Tsireh; the exploits of Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda von Richtofen Lawrence, and Rebecca Strand; memories of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry; her growing confidence in her painting; criticism of Aldous Huxley's book Point Counter Point; sharp comments on the death of D. H. Lawrence ("unmitigated stupidity"); the poor art market during the Depression and money trouble. After a silence of 32 years there was an exchange of letters in 1967.

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