Visual Entertainment from Near and Far
Santa Fe, March 1987
We just toured the museum and saw a lot of O’Keefe’s lovely paintings. Most will be displayed in her home which will become a museum of its own at some time. We are very comfortable, share a bath with another couple. Food is very adequate, students and staff very friendly. The “Creation” class is deep, but no one goes to sleep. We are now in the bar of La Fonda Hotel. Jewelry is fabulous!
Love, Va
Georgia O’Keefe, Red Hills with Pedernal, 1936
Zurich, December 1982
We are dong fine so far. Paul and Bill are adjusting to learning a bit of geography, yesterday we took a city tour and a tour to Lucerne. The foto on this card is a port of one window (of five) that Chagall did in a church here at age 80! We are retracing a trip to Rigi Kulm today that we did with you 25 years ago.
Love, Bill
Actually the postcard is of the 9m tall stained glass of the North transept, created by Augusto Giacometti in 1940. But the church does also contain the five Chagall windows.
June 1983
Isn’t this a nice painting? When we were at the museum last I looked at the Van Gogh original (tree in my bedroom) and got a better idea for framing. We’re going to Koblenz tomorrow for a weekend on the Rhine with Alicia and her mother. The days are at last sunny and warm – the beach is full with many bare bosomed ones. Roses in bud.
Love, Va
Isaac Israels (1865-1934) Girl riding a donkey c.1905
Walasse Ting 1982
Dancing under sunshine. Acrylic on rice paper 14’x19′. Collection Ma Ting, New York ,USA
Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Another mural painted by Ezra Winder is at the left of the Library entrance. It is Diplomacy, the tact that comes from sympathetic understanding rather than from opportunism. two men, an Occidental and an Oriental, are meeting as friends and it is suggested that the European is learning from the Oriental.
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
The Actor; Paris 1887
April 1983
Arrived Ok, bumpy flight, 2 hours late. Bill met me – we have visited about everyone and everything. I hear your party was a success. Bill likes your cards. It’s cold here – daffodils in bloom but not tulips yet. Madurodam is going strong! I’m unpacked so off to bed.
Love, Va
Claud Monet (1840-1926), A woman in a Garden, Ste Adresse 1867; Hermitage, Leningrad
May 1963
I got your good letter today. thank you for writing such an interesting letter. In this picture the things that the boy and girl are looking at are called Piñata’s and are filled with candy and gifts. They are used for birthdays and the cover is made of Paper Mache.
Write again. Love, Bill
Paul Klee museum, Bern, Switzerland
Postcards from original paintings by U Ba Kyi, at the Strand Hotel, Rangoon, Burma
U Ba Kyi (17 July 1912 – 15 April 2000) studied for a year at the Beaux Arts de Paris and he also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He managed to weave together the western style with the traditional Burmese style. He painted murals and watercolors and his work is exhibited around the world. These paintings he did for the Strand Hotel show the lighter side of Burmese character.
Most likely these were done before 1950.
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