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breath (in the sense of spreading out) of any paintings I ever made using the "strict style". I mention it because they really surprised me. They are about 12' sq in the singles, & 12x24 in the doubles. I put two of them up in the studio this spring with the new exotic birds, & they looked good, by themselves, & with the reliefs. The point here is obvious. The large recent "strict style" pictures conforming to the cannons of straight pictoriality seem to be O.K. with an all out involvement in pictorial relief. I think I made about 12-16 of these large ptgs.

I hope I don't have anything more to say about the last 7 yrs. Thank God, painting is dead, & all the excitement of the 60's is over. What would it be like to have to write about something viable & novel?

Love again,
F. 

P.S. 
You understand, of course, my stressing of the linearity in the