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ALAN GROH
8 WEST 9 STREET/NEW YORK, N. Y. 10011

FEBRUARY 23, 1987

MAX FRANKEL EXECUTIVE EDITOR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
229 WEST 43 STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y. 19936

DEAR MR. FRANKEL,

SINCE THE NEW YORK TIMES IS A NEWSPAPER OF RECORD, I FEEL IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT A CORRECTION BE MADE IN THE OBITUARY OF ANDY WARHOL, (TIMES, 2/23/87).

ANDY WARHOL'S FIRST ONE MAN SHOW IN NEW YORK WAS NOT AT THE JANIS GALLERY, AS THE ARTICLE INDICATED, BUT AT THE STABLE GALLERY, 33 EAST 74 STREET, IN NOVEMBER 1962. HIS SECOND ONE MAN SHOW WAS AT THE STABLE GALLERY IN 1964. IN HIS MEMOIR, POPISM, WARHOL CREDITS THE STABLE GALLERY FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO GIVE HIM HIS FIRST ONE MAN SHOW IN NEW YORK.

THE STABLE GALLERY WAS AN INFLUENTIAL PART OF THE ART SCENE OF 1953 UNTIL IT CLOSED IN 1970, AND THE TIMES RAN A LENGTHY OBITUARY (1/7/84) ON THE LATE ELEANOR WARD.

SINCE MANY READERS CLIP AND COLLECT TIMES OBITS, ND SINCE THEY DO BECOME A MATTER OF RECORD, I FEEL IT NECESSARY THAT THIS CORRECTION BE MADE.

WITH APPRECIATION,
Alan Groh
ALAN GROH
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (1956-70)
STABLE GALLERY

CC: JOHN RUSSELL