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wire sculpture, beautiful, magical, & imaginative and I wanted so much to be back in my studio creating objects of my own. Then to the Pierre Matisse to see Dubuffet. Odd & evocative, & M. Matisse, according to Al, was conferring with friends on how to present the artist to the critics. The stupid critics! I began thinking of their incredible insensitivity - how they accept a modern artist only when that modern artist is safely established. What of the years of struggle & loneliness when that artist is no less better, when a kind word would mean most? And I chuckled over [[?]] praise for Objects & Stars at the National Academy. She that is was a new ptg & liked it! Did she know it was in my one-man show, at which time she sighed about "lack of focus?"

To the O.G. - Dove; & a talk with Halfert. That talk stunned me. Now I would have to depend on sales for a living. She said she didn't want me to have a "false sense of security." But I felt [strikethrough] we [/strikethrough] curiously enervated, as if I were now free of gallery chains, as if now I could paint more freely, more bravely, now that the stress of financial obligation had been removed. & yet I could not admit to myself, consciously, that I