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Mr. Dove | 2 | May 28, 1935

in your art and through our exchange of letters.   If you would surely come I would hold Red Barge until you could see it here and perhaps paint on it here.  But as I know how difficult it is for you to leave the farm and how uncertain has been Mrs. Dove's health I suggest that it might be wise for me to send the picture for you to see.  I will wait however  until you tell me whether this would be entirely convenient for you and,if so,to what address it should be directed.

I really owe you one hundred dollars from last year.  The nine hundred paid in seventy-five a month installments was used as follows:  three hundred balance on Red Barge, two hundred for Tree Trunks, two hundred for Barn, one hundred for Train, and one hundred for Hound. I also kept the two little water colors, Over Lake Geneva, and the study for Barn Next Door.  There is also a hundred to pay over and above the seventy-five a month on this year's purchase and I enclose a check for that amount.  As I am extremely short of funds I wonder if we could let the other amount rest. 

Hoping that all goes well with you,
Sincerely yours,
Duncan Phillips
DP.E
P. S. Miss Bier will send you under separate cover, the pages of commentary on your paintings as they appeared on the screen in my lecture, Freshness of Vision in Painting.  I am planning this summer to write an essay on your painting for the American Magazine of Art to be included with a number of other essays which I eventually expect to publish as a book.