Letter

CO-586 Dear Mr. Portinari: We are looking forward to having an exhibition of your work in the Museum and to seeing you and Mrs. Portinari in New York. The exhibition will open here after the showing in Detroit, that is, early in October. We wonder whether you have photographs of the frescos in the Ministry of Education Building which you could bring with you. I think it might be interesting to show photographs of the frescos with the studies which are in the show. Miss Horn has suggested that you have the Still Life which you painted in Europe in 1928. We would like to see it. The list of dates arrived and was helpful in compiling the catalog of the exhibition. We are glad that you are bringing thirty more paintings with you but I think it is proper that we should inform you that we cannot show all the paintings which we are listing. I am afraid we may not have room for an exhibition of more than fifty or sixty works, although we are cataloging many more. We are also publishing a special number of our Bulletin on your work with essays by both Florence Horn and Robert C. Smith. Sincerely, Alfred Barr