AARON COPLAND AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - DEAN OF AMERICAN COMPOSERS
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:23118357 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
We have LOWERED THE PRICE ON THIS ITEM (09/02/2019).COPLAND, AARON (1900-90) American composer, teacher, writer and conductor. He was called "Dean of American Composers" by critics and peers.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed, one page, November 1970, on his personal Peekskill, NY letterhead. Accompanied by original handwritten envelope. Addressed to Monroe Wheeler, a NY publisher and board member of the Museum of Modern Art. Reads: It was so very nice of y...ou to present me with your beautiful edition of the Fables for my birthday. It's a joy to hold, and the Sandy Calder title page is an extra bonus! My thanks to you -- and my greetings to Glenway (Wescott). As ever...Aaron.
MONROE WHEELER (1900-89) was associated with the Museum of Modern Art for nearly five decades. At one point he was the head of its department of exhibitions and publications. GLENWAY WESCOTT (1901-87) as an accomplished American poet, essayist and novelist. He was a figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris in the 1920s. Mr. Wescott also was the longtime, gay, companion of Wheeler for 66 years.
Letter accompanied by a 10"x7.5" black/white glossy newspaper photograph, circa 1970.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed, one page, November 1970, on his personal Peekskill, NY letterhead. Accompanied by original handwritten envelope. Addressed to Monroe Wheeler, a NY publisher and board member of the Museum of Modern Art. Reads: It was so very nice of y...ou to present me with your beautiful edition of the Fables for my birthday. It's a joy to hold, and the Sandy Calder title page is an extra bonus! My thanks to you -- and my greetings to Glenway (Wescott). As ever...Aaron.
MONROE WHEELER (1900-89) was associated with the Museum of Modern Art for nearly five decades. At one point he was the head of its department of exhibitions and publications. GLENWAY WESCOTT (1901-87) as an accomplished American poet, essayist and novelist. He was a figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris in the 1920s. Mr. Wescott also was the longtime, gay, companion of Wheeler for 66 years.
Letter accompanied by a 10"x7.5" black/white glossy newspaper photograph, circa 1970.
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