Robert and Ella Bergmann Michel
50 Year Retrospective - 1917-1967

"Michel"

...reads the old invitation above.

"A private preview will be held prior to the public opening.

You are cordially invited to attend.

Monday, March 4th, 5 to 8 p. m."

On the first of the month, May 1968, a number of weeks later, Abe would be dead after spending weeks in the hospital suffering the twin pains of an infected kidney and bleeding ulcer. As his friend Jack wrote, this short article was "one of his final works". It makes clear that Abe's succinct style was with him to the very end of the writing...