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December 31, 1969
Lake Valhalla
Phil,
I've been so preoccupied with so much various planning that I almost had to disappoint you by not according some sorts of comments about your (or was it Jack Burnham's) article on the National Gallery of Canada's version of my twelve years retro exam. (close enough to fairly full disclosure like it or not Phil and/or Jack).
As usual, I only scanned the article. Probably, I will not bother to read it carefully. It seems to be a poor enough performance not to warrant sufficient attention anyhow. Also, several intelligent friends have disparaged the writing variously convincingly. Nevertheless it is pleasant to witness several of the Canadian photographs together. (As I recall, the sole color reproduction is somewhat particularly poorly reproduced.) (I wish that Jack would have somehow felt obliged journalistically to reveal some of the earliest etc. - to 1961 - inclosures in the exposition through reproduction to satisfy the curiosity of so many persons about the extent, the range of the exposition. But naive American art critics usually respond to their presumptuous hapless roles over art in a peculiarly exclusive suppressive grudging humorless fashion. Jack is no exception.)
Well, what of Mr. Burnham writing from his chosen roles about the Ottawa exposition.