To the Editors:

Regarding Dan Hofstadter’s article, “The Figurative Fifties,” in your May 1989 issue:

The father of the artist Jan Müller was not a Communist. In Germany, he was a socialist.

The father did not arrive in the United States in the Thirties. He arrived in 1941.

Jan Müller and one of his sisters arrived in the United States approximately six months later. He was nineteen years old.

Jan Müller was one month into his thirty-fifth year when he died. He did not die of rheumatic fever. He died in January, 1958, due to a malfunction of a plastic valve in his heart.

The artist Bob Thompson never met Jan Müller. Bob Thompson arrived “on the scene” in Provincetown six months after Jan Muller’s death. He became very familiar with Jan Muller’s work via his widow.

Bob Thompson died...

 

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