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portrait from memory of the Sculptor's wife - Having dived in the day before - it was in a grand mess - but still a workable mess, & I just didn't care - I felt like painting and it was like being on a drunk - after weeks a lethargy - & the feeling - I must work - Extraordinary how you feel when you at last want to paint - when you cannot hold back - & must paint in the sense that your hand wants to & every inch of you wants to - like being alive again - & not being totally useless - and the canvas is coming - looks pretty well. I have it in front of me now - I put her outdoors - & I have a great plump nurse holding her baby in the background   Going to work on the hands this P.M - this morning going to Millers to print the litho - 

I called up Dorothy Dana to ask her to sup here with me last night - she was busy - & tonight I don't want to do it.