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Ruth Bowman

24 July 1978

Dorothy C. Miller
12 East Eighth Street
New York, New York 10003

Dear Dorothy:

I am most grateful for your letter of July 11 as were Sam and other staff members at Newark.

We are most pleased that you will lend the eleven page Gorky manuscript and have plans in our much reduced budget to frame it. The NEH funds will not be totally confirmed until sometime in late August, and the tour must be included in the sum they have proffered.

After budgetary and technical considerations, we have developed a rationale vis-a-vis the recreated model. Sam seems to feel that showing it in Grisaille is a gesture which demonstrates its loss while at the same time indicating its shape and scheme. On the other hand, Dorothy, I am pleased to say that the Modern will be lending its gouache after a brief flurry that they might withdraw it for another exhibition.

After I last wrote you we discovered a clipping of a Newark paper showing that image in full scale hanging from the wall of Newark Museum on November 7, 1936. You can imagine our delight in spite of some rather nasty comments as to its meaning.

Ed Chandless of the museum exhibition staff has gone out to Newark Airports and measured everything in the second floor lobby. That plus an old blueprint should make our 1/2" scale model quite elegant in its Guernica-style color scheme. Compo has a way of tilting the enlarger to create flat photographs from the perspective shots of the model taken in 1936.

One more thing: I recently listened to our interview tape in which you mentioned a photograph you have of Gorky standing on a skaffolding. I do not have one and seem not to be able to locate one. Perhaps if you are in New York next week, I could come down to help you locate it.

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