MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

March 16, 1939

Alfred Stieglitz, Esq.
An American Place
509 Madison Avenue
New York City

Dear Mr. Stieglitz:

Since my visit to you I find that Mr. Constable
and I have had somewhat of a mix-up about the Marin question.
Apparently he had already asked for two Marins - one from
Charles Hoyt, an early picture dated 1919, entitled *Rainy
Day at Meaux* (it is a fine early picture), the other, the
one owned by the Addison Gallery in Andover, no. 50 of the
Museum of Modern Art exhibition and reproduced in the catalogue.
I think both of these watercolours are up to the standard of the
ones we are getting from you and the two coming from the Fogg
and I hope that you won't mind our substituting these for the
*Movement, Boat off Deer Isle* and the *Small Point, Maine, Marin
Island*.

I am enclosing blanks on the four which we wish
and would be grateful to you if you would check them over and
see if they are in order, sign them and return them to me at
your earliest convenience.

I am also enclosing blanks on the eight Arthur
Doves which I selected and would be grateful if you would check
these over and return them to me.

With kind regards,

CCC/RFL

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

DEPARTMENT OF PAINTINGS

December 28, 1942

Dear Mr. Stieglitz:

I ought to have written to you
before to say how disappointed and sorry I was,
when I called recently at An American Place, to
hear that you are so unwell. I do hope that by
this time you are better, though I know how trying
you must have found this weather.

I do, however, want you to know how
magnificent I thought the last group of Marins.
I was particularly excited by the oils. It seemed
to me that he had achieved a new mastery in that
medium, and had now arrived at the happy state when
medium was an irrelevance and what he had to say
was everything. I came back over and over again
to number 16 and number 11, though it seems rather
childish to pick out particular examples from such
a remarkable group.

With all remembrances and good wishes,

WGC:n