Letter #5

Alex Traube (b. 1946)

Date

1976
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

11 x 13 15/16 in.
Edition

portfolio 9/50
Inscriptions

Sheet Recto:
c.r. in ink: New York, when I was growing up, \ was the center of my universe. \ It is hard to break that \ association, even now that \ I have moved further and \ further away from it. Closer and \ closer to the land. \ I remember the bakeries, Yankee \ Stadium and The Polo Grounds, \ the butcher shops with \ sawdust on the floor. \ The butcher wore a straw hat \ and a great, blood smeared \ apron. He put his long, sharp \ knife on the side of beef
and \ you told him how wide to \ cut it. Nothing anywhere \ seemed more real.
l.l. in ink: Letter #5
l.c. in ink: 9/50
l.r. signed and dated in ink: Alex Traube 1976
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Andrew Smith, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Accession Number

P1990.32.5
Copyright

© Alex Traube

Location: Off view

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