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Phillips Memorial Gallery
1600 Twenty-First Street 
Washington, D.C. 

Duncan Phillips, Director
C.Law Watkins, Associate Director
Elmira Bier, Manager of Publications 

May 7, 1935

Dear Arthur Dove, 

I like your exhibition better thn any you have had although there may not be any one picture in it as fine as Red Barge. How-ever I liked almost everything in your new show and found it difficuly to choose four pictures. After choosing Red Sun, Electric Peach Orchard, Morning Sun, and Fantasy, I have had misgivings about Red Sun and pleasant reverberations from Goat and Batton Wood Tree. And even from Carnival. I have just written to Stieglitz asking him to send these when he sends the others so that I can compare them with Red Sun. Unfortunately I am limited to the amount of my promise, namely $1000, to be paid for in the usual $75 a month, one hundred inserted wherever you please on the calendar. Goat may be expensive than the others. Besides I seem to remember Stieglitz said that someone was interested. I hope it is the Gallery of Living Art. Henry McBride was there on my second visit and seemed to like that picture especially. Did I ever tell you that I recommend you for a mural in Washington? You are magnificantly a decorator and more American that all the American Sceners put together, if we have a high conception instead of a low one of our country and its essential significane. I am disappointed you are not coming to Washington and we hope that Mrs. Dove's health will permit her to make the trip next fall. Our very best to you both and our congratulations on your splendid painting which is an intimate personal joy to me from day to day.

Sincerely yours,

Duncan Phillips

DP.E

Mr. Arthur G. Dove,
Geneva,
New York.