More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Waldo Peirce (1884–1970) to Sally Jane Davis
25 April 1943
This is one in a series of fanciful letters from painter and watercolorist Waldo Peirce to a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps captain stationed in Louisiana during World War II. The poem commemorates Easter Sunday, 1943. Peirce, who married four times, here divided his affections among three women, each shown happily eating a piece of his heart. At this time, Peirce was married to his third wife, Alzira, who was also a painter.
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