Many years ago, M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist, and I corresponded. I have 13 hand-written aerogrammes from him. Most of these concern routine business matters, but the following letters (one excerpted; the others complete) may be of interest.
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Baarn, 15-II-66
Dear Mr. Kuch,
The book “Graphic Works ….” is out of print. A new edition will be ready probably next April. It will contain 70 reproductions, giving a nearly complete survey of my graphic work since 1937.
Yours sincerely, M.C. Escher
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Baarn, August 3, 1966
Dear Mr. Kuch,
Thank you for thinking of me when you saw [Rowland B.] Wilson’s cartoon in the New Yorker. It is curious indeed that they published it one month after Martin Gardner’s article in Scientific American about my work.
This was the third time the cartoon was send me from the U.S.
Yours sincerely, M.C. Escher
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Baarn, October 5, 1966
Dear Mr. Kuch,
Many thanks for your letter of Oct. 1, with enclosed photo of an Alhambra periodic wall decoration. I know it since long: copied it, with many others, when I was there in y 36.
Yours sincerely, M.C. Escher
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Baarn, July 25, 1967
Dear Mr. Kuch,
…. Many thanks for the rubbing you made of the bathroom window of that old New York – hotel! It’s an amusing pattern, which of course I know very well. Is it not surprising that these patterns were made since long.
I do not remember if I told you that a book, with 40 of my patterns appeared some years ago. The title is: “Symmetry Aspects of M.C. Escher’s Periodic Drawings”, with scientific texts by Prof. C.H. MacGillivry.
Some weeks ago a new edition of my book, with 70 (instead of 40) illustrations, appeared at Meredith Press, 250 Park Av. New York, N.Y. 10017. “The Graphic Works of M.C. Escher”.
Yours sincerely, M.C. Escher
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