Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, one page, 7.5 x 10.5, personal letterhead, January 22, 1927. Letter to the editor of the New York World. In full: “Will you allow me the privilege of a constant reader, of a friend, of one who has often expended his eloquence in praise of the World as a high principled and intelligent journal—and come periously near, at times, to believing it—will you allow me now the privilege of telling you that your crusade against nude picture magazines convinces me of your immediate hypocracy. You, Sir, are not disgusted by photographs of nude beauty; you like to contemplate them as in a feeble way suggestive of the living nude itself. I compliment you, Sir. But haven't you misrepresented yourself to the public? How do you know but by your own reactions what demoralizing power these nude photographs possess? Do they then lure you toward sin, Sir? The innocent public might well concern itself with measures to protect the agitated minds and morals of its leaders. They are dangerous, you say, because they're not artistic! How little you know! Beauty is inherent in life and all of nature; art is the eloquence of beauty; art makes beauty dangerous. Beware of art! But the photographs—these, you are right, are not artistic; they are as inartistic as life itself. They are life. They can reveal only to those unfortunates whose experience of beauty has been limited to the leg shows of Coney Island beach that beauty can be different. It can excite them, and it can give them a standard—and a mighty fine one—of what women physically should be. And if our fashion sheets would concern themselves less with what men and women at so much per. could make themselves seem, than on what with decent living and mating they could eventually contrive to be, our American melting-pot might at last evolve a race.”
Letter is tipped in to the second free end page of a hardcover first edition of Rockwellkentiana. A mailing envelope from Kent is affixed to the first free end page. Letter shows central horizontal and vertical fold, repaired tear to lower right edge, and light notation to top blank of letter, otherwise fine condition. Book itself rates very good to fine. A powerful letter from the renowned artist.
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