Today illustrator Stephen Kroninger shares a postcard sent by George Grosz, then summering in Cape Cod, to his friend, the art critic Thomas Craven. The postcard, written and postmarked in Truro on June 29, 1939, depicts an "artist colony on the Cape." Grosz has amended the picture with "Lots of painters and paint around here." And, apparently, sunhats.
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| "29.6.39 Dear Tom & Eileen [Aileen], Greetings to you from the very lovely Truro as ever yours George & Eva Grosz" |
Craven was a champion of the American Regionalist painters and the editor of Cartoon Cavalcade (1943).
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| Thomas Craven, ed. Cartoon Cavalcade, 1943 |
Later in 1939, Grosz's portrait of Craven would appear on the cover of The Saturday Review of Literature.  |
| George Grosz Portrait of Thomas Craven The Saturday Review of Literature September 30, 1939 |
Grosz didn't require an artist colony in order to paint on the Cape:
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| George Grosz Dunes of Cape Cod, 1939 |
Note: Over years now of my posting many top notch contributions from him, I never suspected that master collagist Stephen Kroninger also collected postcards. This is his thirty-eighth contribution to Attempted Bloggery and his very first postcard. Thank you, Stephen.
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