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The main events of the 1960's were my retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art arranged by the art historian Lloyd Goodrich and [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] working on my largest painting "Homage to Thomas Eakins" To compose this painting, I again painted from life some fellow artists as I did in the 40's - Edward  Hopper, Edwin Dickinson, Henry Poor, Leonard Baskin, Lloyd Goodrich biographer of Eakins and several others. It was a difficult undertaking to organize these studies from life into a cohesive meaningful group.

An interesting aside: While doing the "Homage to Thomas Eakins" I was also [[strikethrough]] paintin [[/strikethrough]] painting a small [[strikethrough]] painting [[/strikethrough]] portrait of John Rewald the author of books on Impressionism, on Cezanne, Pissaro etc, and the thought occurred to me to include him in the group. When I mentioned this to him he said: I really don't belong in this group of American artists, but [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] if you want to, you may [[strikethrough]] do it [[/strikethrough]] - It is your "Grande Jatte".
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Whenever, I am in my favorite room of the Louvre where the paintings of the