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"Look at this- isn't this a fright!" "What is it all about?" "I don't understand it" "Why do they hang such pictures!" "Oh come look at this May!"

As I left, it was like the chatter of Blackbirds flocking in the pine trees, and I smiled and silently commented "But anyway you are interested. Your children will control the future art [[strikethrough]]picture market [[/strikethrough]]of America, and Knoedler's will do well to be patient." I believe that in the future it will not be as it has been in the past. America has not accepted the artist as a member of the Democracy. The Artist has been permitted to remain, - as a curiosity, as a bit of color, perhaps, - an ornament, a joke! - but as a vital and powerful element in our life he is not recognized. Indeed I will remember when "aesthetic" and "effete" were so mentioned in our public schools that they seemed of the same unhealthy ills if not veritable synonyms. America has been far too interested in its food, its comforts, and in the