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Georgia O'Keeffe autograph letter signed, dated 26 March 1970 from Abiquiu, New Mexico, and accompanied by original handwritten envelope with O'Keeffe's name and partial address embossed on flap. Responding to a letter from a museum docent regarding her famous painting, ''Pink Abstraction'', currently housed at the Phoenix Art Museum, O'Keeffe writes, ''In answer to your questions about the painting 'Pink Abstraction' I can not tell you much. That winter in New York I had been painting pink tulips and when I went to Lake George in the spring I painted that 'Pink Abstraction. It has nothing to do with the tulips - that is there are no tulips in it but it is the same color as what I had been doing in the city. That is all I can tell you. / The star on the back I put there when I was starting paintings much later - It meant that I thought it very good. / Sincerely / Georgia O'Keeffe''. Single page letter composed in blue ballpoint measures 8.5'' x 11''. Accompanied by original envelope in O'Keeffe's hand, postmarked 30 March 1970 from Abiquiu. Folds to letter and tears to envelope from opening, overall in very good to near fine condition. Accompanied by a copy of the letter sent to O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Her Famous Painting, ''Pink Abstraction'' -- ''...I went to Lake George in the spring I painted that 'Pink Abstraction...''
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