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A: Well, that anatomy class didn't mean anything to me. The man didn't make any pictures. He just talked about it and they were large words to me. But when Mr. Vanderpool had lectures up in the auditorium and had a great big piece of paper and made drawings with charcoal and chalk, that had meaning to me. I was 17 or 18.

Q: You're not known as a painter that has done human beings. In your book I don't see one of a person, of a portrait of a face, a pair of hands, a nude.

A: I have had to pose for myself...I can't stand it to make other people sit for me.

Q: Do you see more in nature than you do in people?

A: I just happen to enjoy the outdoors very much. A few people one likes very much, you know, but I have only a handful of friends in Santa Fe. There was a time when I knew everyone in Santa Fe but I don't anymore. The population changes.

Q: Isn't there a very artistic community known as Tahoes not far away? Do you spend any time there?

A: No, I go up there maybe once a year. And I wouldn't want to live there if you gave me the country. It's too arty.

Q: But you're an artist.

A: That's alright. I'll stay off by myself and attend to it.

Q: You said that you don't like posing and yet, for many years you were married to one of the great photographers.

A: I've been photographed a great deal but when I first went to New York, there was a painter across the hall from me who said he had made a portrait of a girl with a plaid dress sitting in a chair and she had it all painted but the hands and dace. Would I pose for the face and hands?

I posed for her and she put my face and hands on it and she got the prize.... and from then on, well, someone was always wanted to paint, photograph me or whatever.

Q: You late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, on of the world's great photographers, must have taken thousands of photographs of you, didn't he

A: He took a great many.

Q: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York tells me that they have a large collection of Stieglitz pictures of yourself. Including, they say, in the 1920's, a whole collection of pictures taken of you in the nude.

A: Yes.