Letters and Christmas Card to C. Bertram Hartman, 1959-1960, n.d.

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Letters and Christmas Card to C. Bertram Hartman, 1959-1960, n.d.

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In a letter, 1960 May 25, Cummings thanks Hartman for a painting of "coolly fountaining birches" and states "I've rarely, if ever, met a painting which appealed to me as directly." With hand addressed envelope. The collection also contains two postal cards, 1959 and 1960, describing a humorous incident in a hospital involving Sibley Watson, and thanking him for a generous offer. The Christmas card is a reproduction of Remigio's "Adoration of the Magi" published by the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Watson, Sibley.

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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Hartman, C. Bertram, 1882-1960

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Landscape painter, New York, N.Y.; b. 1882; d. 1960. From the description of C. Bertram Hartman letters to Caroline C.K. Porter, 1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220234341 ...