ART OF THIS CENTURY

It was a lovely sunny day in the city.

Fort Mason was beautiful; the colors

of the sky and the water and the bridge

were not to be equaled. It was pretty

much like heaven (in that San Francisco

way). Then we went to the SFMOMA &

the Anniversary Show is in full swing

and it's a doozy. You ought to stop by, if

you already haven't. Did you know that

(in days gone by) you could sometimes

arrange to purchase art as it was being

exhibited in museums? The sketches above

are from papers that Calder sent with

an installation of his art...it's magnificent

to see his directions for setting up the work

but the critical bit of information, as I see it,

are the numbers (prices!) scrawled below the

diagrams for each piece are the prices.

$300 for a Calder, anyone?

The correspondence (snapped with my

trusty old iPhone, which seems to always

be there when I need it, unlike my trusty

camera) is between Peggy Guggenheim

and the founding director of the museum,

Dr. Grace Morely. The pics aren't great,

but you can click on them and sort of

get the gist. What really got me was

Peggy's fabulous business stationery.

Art of this Century (and forevermore).