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Letter from Rita Abbey

Image of Rita Abbey's letter
1 March 1962 (B40 F25)

Edward Abbey's second wife, Rita Deanin Abbey (div. 1965) was an artist whose abstract landscape paintings were used on the set for Lonely Are The Brave.

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See also: Rogers & Cowan's publicity report which mentions Rita Abbey's artwork as helping to contribute to the "realism" of the film.

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