This just in from Ann Freedman, who recently resigned as Knoedler‘s President and Director after 32 years at the gallery (previous post here):

“November 11, 2009

I am writing to express my thanks to those of you who have thoughtfully called and sent letters to me at Knoedler.  I have not been receiving them, so I’m sorry that I have not been able to reply.

I wish to dispel a rumor now circulating that is personally upsetting.  My resignation from Knoedler is not due to a recurrence of my lung cancer.  This hopefully may answer the next rumor: I am not retiring.  In surviving cancer I found a new tenacity … transcending limitations, and that there still is a lot of life left in me.

I look forward to forging a new path in the world of art … the world which I do so love.  I will be sharing my plans with you in the near future.”