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eve - before dinner

Saw some fine May Cassatt's at Durand Ruel the other day really very fine Pastels. Some were a little hot & muzzy in their design - but the most were splendid. Also a very unusual & fine Degas - Two men & a piano brown (sienna) black, white, with two touches of fine full green to hold together 
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The Walt Kuhn show seemed very crude to me - very crude indeed. And yet well painted. Just good painting is nothing, 

But oh my god how I wish I could even do just good painting.

Sometimes it seems as though I'd never pull a canvas out. I worked all afternoon until I found I was painting in the dark - & now I don't know what she looks like - 

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. image: sketch of a woman sitting at a table