News

A.M. letter from F.K.M.R. [Frank K. M. Rehn]– thanking me for my Christmas greeting, and telling me to my surprise that my show went on the 27th - - and that Wednesday N.Y. Times carried a criticism – 

B & I had some errands in town, and we stopped at a news agency & procured a copy of the Times. It was by Jewell, and as good a criticism as I could possibly ask for; not too flowery or exaggerated, but showing a genuine appreciation of my efforts.

There is this difference between winter and summer – In summer light always seems to come from above, no matter whether the day is cloudy or clear, but in the winter the sky closes in like a heavy curtain, and the only source of light is the snow –

Now is the time when starry nights and early morning mean the most to us.  I was looking for an almanac last night and couldn’t get one in a drug store and I thought with regret that such things mean so little to us anymore.  Formerly at this season (they being just issued) I used to pore over some Pain Pill almanac, enthralled by the Zodiacal signs, the eclipse predictions...

All day on “Star” picture – bringing it pretty well to a conclusion altho of course there will have to be refinements later on.

The zero hour of the year – quite fittingly a heavy blanket of clouds obscured the sun and sky from the earth – it is twilight at noon –

Made a water-color of a memory from childhood – the night before Christmas – (the little brick house - Joe woke up and said he had heard Santa’s reindeers beating on the roof – I believed him) - 

Working all day on pictures I am giving away (“Spring Afternoon” 1935 to Valentine; “The Bell-tower – 1932 to Carl Wild; and “Road in Sunlight & Shadow” 1936 to Shaffers).

Sunset time wonderful - clouds with blue black bottoms, and yellow, purple and pink tops, form a wonderful array of color against the emerald sky.