NAOMI LORNE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/08/1962 - HFSID 31877

NAOMI LORNE
With the sudden death of Natalie Sobol Spritzler, Lorne offers to memorialize the daughter of Louis Sobol with a painting.
Typed letter signed: "Naomi", in black ink. 1 pages, 7¼x10½. New York City, New York, March 8, 1962. To "Dear Louie", Louis Sobol, New York City, New York, in full: "Because I've always been fond of Natalie, I'd like to present one of my recent painting in her memory to the college she attended or any institution you prefer. I've a fairly good background in art. In 1959, I was a Nominee for the Ford $10,000. Grant in Painting. My work is in the Permanent Collections of Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller, Thomas J. Watson Sr, IBM, Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein, Notre Dame College, New York Cardiac Hospital, Maryknoll College etc. I've exhibited widely in major Group shows in the USA and abroad. A one man show of my paintings has been traveling since January 1960 to Universities and Museums etc. through the USA and will continue through 1963. If this meets with your approval, either you or I can contact the institution which can send a representative to my studio in select a painting of his choice. Keep well Louie. Warmest regards to you and your wife. ." American painter Noami Lorne (1902-1964) is best known for her landscape, coastal and still life paintings, such as her most famous work, Night. A student of the Art Students League of New York, she was a member of the American Artists Professional League, Audubon Society of Artists, Brooklyn Society of Artists and the National Association of Women Artists among others. Her best mediums were in acrylic and oil. New York journalist LOUIS SOBOL (1896-1986) wrote a gossip-oriented entertainment column for 40 years, initially focused on the Broadway stage but also covering film and TV personalities for the New York Journal American. His books include The Longest Street, a Broadway memoir and Along the Broadway Beat. He retired in 1967. In 1947, Sobol, Earl Wilson of the New York Post and Abel Green, the editor of Variety, appeared in Copacabana, Groucho Marx's first solo film without his brothers. Sobol had again appeared as a reporter with Wilson and with Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960). His daughter, Natalie Sobol Spritzler (1920-1962) died tragically young in 1962. A graduate of Smith college, she was to be memorialized by her university with a Naomi Lorne painting and commemorative plaque. Normal mailing folds. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.