Bellamy, Richard
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Bellamy, Miles
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Bellamy, Miles
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Bellamy, Miles
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: the letters of Richard Bellamy
- [First edition]
Beschreibung:
This selection of twenty-two letters written by the renowned art dealer Richard Bellamy (19271998) highlights his great sensitivity to the needs of the artists he represented, his special brand of humor and his literary predilections. The letters cover the year 1965, when he closed the Green Gallerya showcase for many who would become the most important artists of the second half of the 20th centuryto the last weeks of his life in 1998. Included are letters to art collectors and patrons such as Virginia Wright, Vera List and A. Alfred Taubman, and letters concerning the artists Mark di Suvero, Walter De Maria and Yayoi Kusama, among others. There are also four letters written to his son, Miles Bellamy, which draw a kind of narrative of their relationship. Miles Bellamys introduction and notes expound on that relationship and describe the contexts in which all the letters were written. Appended to the main text are Richard Bellamys essay on the painter Myron Stout, the only previously published writing by the dealer, as well as documentation of a posthumous reading of Bellamys letters at The New School in October 1998.