NAOMI LORNE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/05/1962 - HFSID 31878
Price: $320.00
NAOMI LORNE
The American painter signs a letter in 1962 regarding a memorial
painting for the daughter of journalist Louis Sobol. A rare signature!
Typed letter signed: "Naomi", in black ink. 1 pages, 7¼x10½.
New York City, New York, April 5, 1962. To "Dear Louie", Louis
Sobol, New York City, New York, in full: "Enclosed is a copy of
the letter I received from Dr. T.C. Mendenhall, President of Smith College. I
shall present the painting unconditionally but am hoping when the acting
Assistant Director of the Museum, Miss Milne-Henderson, selects it, her choice
will be one that will warrant a prominent place. Will let you know further
developments as they occurr [sic]. I want to have a plaque made to read:
'Present in memory of Natalie Sobol Spritzler 19?-1962' therefore would like her
year of birth. Do you think it necessary to engrave class of 1942, Smith
college? I honestly don't but will do anything you suggest. It takes about 10
days to have this plaque made and I would like to have it on hand when the
painting is selected so I can put it on....Trust you and your lovely wife are well
in health. Best of wishes. Fondly." 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. Pencil notes (unknown hand) at top margin. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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