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From my window on the topmost floor of the apartment building at 40 Washington Square South in Greenwich Village, I could gaze up Fifth Avenue all the way to the Metropolitan Museum. At that time, the view was no blocked by the skyscrapers that have since risen in mid-town New York. Between the apartment and the Metropolitan, I found the many other museums, clusters of art galleries, and the great department stores, the finest of which are in fact museums. This North-South line now became an axis, the axis around which my world turned. There I studied, sketched, observed and learned, absorbing influence in color and design out of the record of 5,000 years of art, a span ranging from the earliest craftsmen to the works of the most modern architects and