Item Information
Title: Howard Finster letter to Barbara Shissler Nosanow
Date: 1981
Physical Details: 1 letter : handwritten, ill. ; 26 x 22 cm.
Description: A letter to Nosanow at the National Museum of American Art, discussing Finster's upcoming visit to Washington, D.C.
The letter is illustrated in pencil with sketches of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson and William Shakespeare.
Finster writes: "I am excited to be coming to Washington where these great men once had our future responsibility upon them I feel so unworthy to live in a world of luxery [sic] and these great men paved our way..."
Creator: Finster, Howard, 1916-2001
Forms part of: Barbara Shissler Nosanow materials relating to Howard Finster, [ca. 1981]
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Howard Finster. Howard Finster letter to Barbara Shissler Nosanow, 1981. Barbara Shissler Nosanow materials relating to Howard Finster, [ca. 1981]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 555