Tucson Flea

Some WPA etc., posters in honor of Labor Day.

Marisa Roësset Velasco (Spanish 1904-1976)
Rest (Self Portrait), 1928
Oil on canvas
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Advice from Julius Shulman at 98: “Never hurry. But never come to a halt.”

Shulman wonders why the architect, with whom he had fought early on but corresponded with in later years, was so tightly wound. “Neutra worked himself to death,” he says. “What did he have to worry about?” He thinks the famously exacting Neutra didn’t have the ability to take the approach to life that Shulman does: Never hurry, but never come to a halt. We sift through more letters and run across another from Neutra, dated March 18, 1969, a year before the architect would die of a heart attack while on a lecture tour in Germany. “I wish an old architect could keep going as long as a photographer,” Neutra writes, “but our dark rooms are darker than your dark rooms.”