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Letter #7

Alex Traube (b. 1946)

Object Details

  • Date

    1976

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    14 x 11 in.

  • Edition

    portfolio 9/50

  • Inscriptions

    Sheet Recto:

    u.c. in ink: I remember you telling of how you grew up. \ Taking wood from old buildings being torn down \ because your family was too poor to buy coal. \ Fighting because you had to because you were \ a Jew. Going to high school at night because \ the family needed you to work during the day. \ You wanted to be a lawyer, but were forced \ to drop your classes at Colombia [sic] to work two jobs.

    l.l. in ink: Letter #7.

    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

    P1990.32.7

  • Copyright

    © Alex Traube

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