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Richard Carlyon
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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!"
Personal Name Subject
Flavin, Dan, 1933-1996; Carlyon, Richard, 1930-2006
Corporate Name Subject
Richmond Professional Institute
Topical Subject
Arts festivals; Performing arts festivals; Art, American -- 20th century -- History; Sculpture; Light art; Installations (Art); Minimal art
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
correspondence
Local Genre
text
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
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This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Bang Arts Festival, Richmond Professional Institute, 1964-1967
Source
Letter from Dan Flavin to Richard Carlyon, 1966 April 19, Richard Carlyon Papers, Accession 2016.07.150, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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M442_b01_i022.pdf