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it is at the disadvantage of any invitation and is failing to make the most of it's own possibilities.

During the years following the Armory Show, life in Philadelphia seemed much like being shipwrecked on a deserted island. Philadelphia had not reacted to the newer tendencies in Art as had New York. [The latter was skeptical but having a considerable amount of curiosity and curiosity is wholesome. It goes far toward keeping thought fluid and so these new ideas were subject to controversy.] [[note]] better sequence, I think, with this omitted – and more force [[/note]]

With Philadelphia modern Art, as it was then called, was of the same status as an illegitimate child born into one of the first families. Something to live down rather than welcome for the advantageous possibility