Laufman Sidney (2 results)

Softcover staple bound, 20 pages, very good condition, small creases to left edge of pages at spine; no internal marks.

Condition: Very good. WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO REGINALD WILSON'S WIFE CAROLYN HAEBERLIN - Small oblong quarto [approximately 8-1/3 inches high by 11 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 20 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece portrait of Laufman & 10 reproductions of his paintings. Near fine. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida from September 30 to November 11, 1984 and at the Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL from November 30, 1984 to January 11, 1985.Laid in are a compliment slip from the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and one-page autograph letter from Sidney Laufman to artist Carolyn Haeberlin Wilson, wife of Reginald Wilson. The letter, dated November 14th 1984 and signed "Love and kisses / Sidney", profusely thanks Carolyn Haeberlin for an affectionate and flattering letter. "I hope you and Reggie keep well and that the work goes well too." Together with the mailing envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Wilson.Reginald Wilson [b. 1909] trained at the Art Students League of New York, studying with John Stuart Currie among others. He and Carolyn Haeberlin were married in 1942, moving to a 200-year-old farmhouse in 1945. Wilson's paintings and works in other media were exhibited widely beginning in the 1940s in New York City and in major museums and universities and galleries across the country, including the gallery of the Woodstock Artists Association.