Grouping of four ALSs, each signed “Jackie,” six total pages, dated between 1960 and 1982, each addressed to German-born artist Franz Bueb. The first, postmarked April 1971, in part: “If you come to Greec this summer—please call Aris secretary in Athens at Olympic Airways…& she’ll get in touch with us at the island so then we make our paths cross.” Another, in part: “I will keep your watercolor at the window & the black & white one, but I won’t let you make it a campaign contribution! You can make a much better contribution when the time comes—a poster of Jack or start an Artists for Kennedy movement.” The third, in part: “Jean & I are fighting over all your pictures—She will let you know which ones she wants—I would like to definitely get the watercolor of flowers by the open window—the big one—and maybe the plain drawing of me—Could you tell me what the price would be.” The last letter, on the back of a Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard, in full: “Your Christmas present of your superb and powerful rooster is breathtaking. It will hang in the house I love with your other paintings which have given me such joy over the years—and which bring back so many memories. What a brilliant artist you have become—always growing—always changing. You must be a national treasure by now. I wish you so much happiness for the New Year—and my New Year’s wish for myself is that I see you in 1982.”
Also includes: two original 2.5 x 5 negatives, each featuring two images of Jackie Kennedy in seated poses; an Austrian telegram, postmarked May 27, 1961, addressed to Bueb, in full: “Would love to see you. Please call me through White House switchboard American embassy residence, Vienna, Austria. Much love=Jackie”; a handwritten letter from Patricia Kennedy addressed to Bueb thanking him for “a lovely surprise for 77!”; a TLS from matriarch Rose Kennedy, dated December 27, 1971, in part: “Perhaps you know I also traveled to Vienna with Jack when he was President, and I was presented to Khrushchev and to Madam Khrushchev”; and a letter from the Foreign Service of the United States directing Bueb to meet Mrs. Kennedy at a performance of the Spanish Riding School. In overall very good to fine condition. Accompanied by three original mailing envelopes, one addressed in the hand of Jackie Kennedy. Bueb was a German-born artist who taught painting to Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1950's and 1960's. Bueb painted many portraits of the future first lady, as well as various landscapes of Chatsworth, England, the former home of John F. Kennedy’s late sister Kathleen.
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