Visual Entertainment from Near and Far
July 1981, The Hague
Good to visit with you last night. Forgot to ask if you remembered to pick up the framed needlepoints in Miracle Mile? This is one of Van Gogh’s nice ones – I’m trying to find a print I can hang on the laundry door in my kitchen! Or another as nice. We got a mirror (and dresser) for the guest room – all ready for Jean and Tom. Raining and much cooler today.
Love to you, Va
March 1993
Great news that you’re coming to this part of the world! We’ll definitely make plans (since mine are so loose).
Italy was fabulous – Florence, Bologna, Venice, Art, Wine, churches, wine, pizza and wine! I want to go back, a week was too short. Some of my art history came back but I was overwhelmed by the beauty and site of the churches. Great too to stand in front of a Botticelli!!
I’m loving Slovakia – time is flying. Off to Poland for Easter, should be vey interesting!
Ciao! Love, Liz
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) novelist, essayist, playwright, art collector
View from the garden across the Vally at Bilignin.
Photo by G. P. Lynes 1929
All four postcards written in July 1981. From Virginia in The Hague to her Mother in Wisconsin..
“We can buy 10 roses for about $2 and they usually last about a week!”
Peter Orlovsky, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, Ian Sommerville
Tangier 1961, Burroughs garden outside his single room.
Photograph by Michael Portman
Interior Hotel Castillo Santa Cecilia
Guanajuato, Mexico
Interior of Hotel, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
January 1982, The Hague
Dear K
It is a dull, rainy Monday morning – I should have just stayed in bed! At least, we don’t have snow as yet altho it is possible. So good to visit with you yesterday – Bill called last night and said you got your car dug out. I’m packing – in and out as I change my mind on what to take. I don’t seem to be able to make decisions any better with age! Wish you were going along. Isn’t this a nice painting? Colors are great in the original.
Love, Va
Boats on the beach, Saintes-Maries 1888
The interior of the Santa Cecilia Castle
Guanajuato, Mexico
1966
Hotel Playa de Cortes on Bacochibampo Bay
Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
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