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that the classical product of the followers of Claud, of Poussin, of Turner occupy a nitch in the temple to which the schools of the [[swintin?]] and the later modernistic tendencies of Monet and my friend Harsam may well lift their hats with respect - as they pass bye - At the present moment, I am writing these souvenirs at Santa Barbara in the spring of 1917, my old friend Mr Thomas Moran in his 80th year, is here in a little house, cared for by his devoted daughter Ruth. He is painting with undiminished enthusiasm, and, what is more remarkable, unimpaired skill, his interpretations of the Grand Canyon and other points of this Far West which he has unceasingly studied since the early seventies. It interests me deeply in this moment when the [[?]] in art is endangering the very foundation of thor-