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...call your attention to certain errors of fact in the biographical sketch of Beniamino Bufano included in your article entitled ''Pacific Progress...
...After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married; had a child, deserted wife & child to study Terra Cotta glazing and firing in China." This is inaccurate. Bufano was not married until 1925, then to Virginia Howard, in Houston, Texas, by whom he had a son, Erskine Scott Wood Bufano, born in August 1928 at Ross, Calif. Mother and son have been residents of Mill Valley, Calif, for several years...
...Bufano "deserting wife and child," such a phrase implies an attitude of mind that is scarcely Bufano. Bufano is the type to which the desertion of one interest merely means absorption in another...
Also, permit me to gently protest against the light way in which you discussed the artist's eccentricities. Sir, if you could but know the pathos of that powerful but thwarted will! To be born with any esthetic conception in this age is to be born into pain. Bufano's capacity to suffer is very great, and I cannot help but think how your article must have pained him. The creation of a colossal St. Francis was one of his great dreams. But he sacrificed too much for it, gave it the significance the world demanded...
VIRGINIA HOWARD BUFANO...