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Draper.

As a director of the California School of Fine Arts, I played a part in bringing Maurice there to lecture. He was a great painter. One of his best known works, the bowl of eggs, hangs in the Metropolitan Museum, a fine example of his mastery of light and shade, producing the illusion of white. His versatility was such that at the opposite end of the scale from this work are his paintings of the Balinese and their island, done in a wide range of vivid tropical colors. Merely listening to Maurice discuss the technical problems he had encountered in painting, I absorbed a mass of information about colors and their uses.

Dorothy Draper enhanced my understanding of the importance of scale and dimension. Her son, George, was a reporter on a San Francisco newspaper whom I had come to know. When Dorothy visited him, he