NEXT EPISODE...
(Having to do with the BLT sandwich on white toast and I meet Betty Parsons)
...When we got downstairs and were sitting at the lunch counter I did a silly thing. Catherine Viviano ordered a dainty little sandwich of something or other and I ordered Bacon lettuce and tomato on white toast with mayo.
It was a very unwieldly sandwich especially the mayo part. I managed
to make it disappear along with some engaging conversation about Rome and
such. How exciting it was to be back in New York City after so long etc. Then she said -" I would like you to meet Betty Parsons. Her gallery is just across the
street". I said "great", and along we went. Betty Parsons was very pleasant and friendly. They both got a good look at the paintings I brought with me. One was a portrait of my wife, Teresa. My professor Beppe Guzzi Loved it. Matta also had seen it and liked it as well. But all of the abstract work I had produced while I was in Rome, I did not show them. I did not have it with me. I guess I thought I would show them one or two things and then they would say. Have you done any abstract work? And of course I would have said; "Oh yes, I have done quite a bit." And then they would make an appointment with me to come out to Corona Queens where I lived under the Elevated subway and look at all of my "stuff". All of this never happened. They told me that I was very talented (which I already knew) and that I should keep up the good work. That most of the artists now coming up and being noticed were well into their late thirties and early forties. So, I went home . When I got home, I found my lovely, sweet wife and my gorgeous little boy with beautiful eyes as big as ever. When I would return home from work every night and come down the steps of the elevated train, there was my wife with the baby in the carriage and invariably a couple of people crowding around the carriage to say what a beautiful baby he was. What more could I want.?
NEXT EPISODE... to come
...When we got downstairs and were sitting at the lunch counter I did a silly thing. Catherine Viviano ordered a dainty little sandwich of something or other and I ordered Bacon lettuce and tomato on white toast with mayo.
It was a very unwieldly sandwich especially the mayo part. I managed
to make it disappear along with some engaging conversation about Rome and
such. How exciting it was to be back in New York City after so long etc. Then she said -" I would like you to meet Betty Parsons. Her gallery is just across the
street". I said "great", and along we went. Betty Parsons was very pleasant and friendly. They both got a good look at the paintings I brought with me. One was a portrait of my wife, Teresa. My professor Beppe Guzzi Loved it. Matta also had seen it and liked it as well. But all of the abstract work I had produced while I was in Rome, I did not show them. I did not have it with me. I guess I thought I would show them one or two things and then they would say. Have you done any abstract work? And of course I would have said; "Oh yes, I have done quite a bit." And then they would make an appointment with me to come out to Corona Queens where I lived under the Elevated subway and look at all of my "stuff". All of this never happened. They told me that I was very talented (which I already knew) and that I should keep up the good work. That most of the artists now coming up and being noticed were well into their late thirties and early forties. So, I went home . When I got home, I found my lovely, sweet wife and my gorgeous little boy with beautiful eyes as big as ever. When I would return home from work every night and come down the steps of the elevated train, there was my wife with the baby in the carriage and invariably a couple of people crowding around the carriage to say what a beautiful baby he was. What more could I want.?
NEXT EPISODE... to come
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