Richard Diebenkorn Correspondence
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Artist's Postcard
Date:
9 October 1964 Current owner:
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation RD number:
RDFA.153 Description
Postcard sent from Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn to the artist's mother, Dorothy Diebenkorn, while in the Soviet Union, 9 October 1964
Transcription:
Dear Mom, Having / Fantastic & marvelous time / in [soviet insignia of card left visible] Moscow & vicinity / Everyday has / absolutely every minute taken up, seeing things, / places, people, eating, / drinking Vodka. Could use a bit more sleep. / Otherwise great & exciting. / We visited the country / 50 miles E. of Moscow / today. We are staying / in a small city tonight / called Vladimir. Beautiful. / The trains are as trains / should be. Cold. Snowing / all afternoon. Love, Phil & Richard
Transcription:
Dear Mom, Having / Fantastic & marvelous time / in [soviet insignia of card left visible] Moscow & vicinity / Everyday has / absolutely every minute taken up, seeing things, / places, people, eating, / drinking Vodka. Could use a bit more sleep. / Otherwise great & exciting. / We visited the country / 50 miles E. of Moscow / today. We are staying / in a small city tonight / called Vladimir. Beautiful. / The trains are as trains / should be. Cold. Snowing / all afternoon. Love, Phil & Richard