More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940) to Mimi Gross and Red Grooms
[postmarked 4 April 1969]
Painter Gladys Nilsson used United Airlines stationery to send a thank-you note from the “friendly skies” to fellow artists Mimi Gross and Red Grooms. Nilsson connected her collage of smiling faces with telepathic dots to a message cloud where her words expressed thanks for letting the Nutt family—Gladys, Jim, and their six-year-old son Claude—stay at the Grooms’ place in New York. The words “heat comb” and playful doodles in the upper right add whimsical flourishes.
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