A photocopy of a handwritten letter from Dan Flavin to Richard Carlyon, written on letterhead from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Flavin shares thoughts after the Arts Festival symposium to be he..
A photocopy of a handwritten letter from Dan Flavin to Richard Carlyon, written on letterhead from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Flavin shares thoughts after the Arts Festival symposium to be held on March 25, 1966. Transcription: "April 19, 1966. Cold Spring, Dear Dick, It is good to know that you did not participate in the baiting; nevertheless, it is a spent issue now (my hope). I think that the students are correct in believing that Judd, Newman, and I could have talked with each other but your present Symposium situation would have frustrated our communication too. We agreed about this afterwards -- enroute to Jewetts’ place. This evening I returned from a hectic overnight stay in New York. I went to Barnett Newman’s gala at the Guggie. I like his paintings in part despite the encumbrance of his autograph thereupon and his distant sense of subject matter (the printings do not deserve specific identification tags, one for each of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.) A chat with Rudolph Zwirner, a flashing young businessman of Cologne, leads me to believe that I will expose a proposal in his gallery in the fall. There will be coordination between his organization and the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum so that my effort can be represented in Eindhoven and in Cologne, simultaneously. By the way, [Annalee?] Newman and Don me that they received their checks (as have I). Thank you for my part. Best wishes to you and your wife. Sincerely, Dan F. P.S. I saw Ward at the Guggie. He is paranoid as ever -- also fat. Poor, fear Ward!"