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to do for it than the Academicians are for the Academy. Friday evening Gifford dined with me and we went to Mr. Bryants reception. It rained and there was not a large company there but it was very enjoyable. Yesterday Mrs. Wilson came to see her picture. She seemed very much pleased with it and left the framing of it to me. Last night Greene, Shattuck and I met to talk over the Academy Constitution. We agreed on all important points Ward was not present and our meeting was informal Took a long walk this morning. The weather is fair and brisk but not cold. Girard called and Calvert also. 

Saturday June. 22. 1876. Called on Robt. Hoe last evening. Saw a new picture by Boughton "The Minstrel" a large picture which did not strike me as favorably as some of his other pictures. Talked with him about my picture which he wants me to exchange. Is to send it to my studio, in fact it came today. Have been running about all day. Took a long walk in the morning. Found great pleasure in going into parts of the city I am not accustomed to. Today went down Hudson St. and came up Greenwich. Much interested in the elevated railway. Should go the whole length of it some day. Just after I got back Gifford came in and gave me a card to go the Union League Club to see the pictures shown at their reception. As I was tired rode up. Many people there but was much interested The Roman Spanish School seems the fashionable one just now. A characteristic example was a "Spanish Birthday Festival of the 10" Century" by Alvarez belonging to Governor Morgan very clever in detail, very bizarre but looking at a little distance like a piece of calico, very interesting for its strangeness but lacking in my estimation in the higher and enduring qualities of Art. I think it will go out of fashion and the time is not distant when it will only be regarded as a curiosity. Geromes "Gladiators" has higher qualities although the painting is not what I like best, still it is an intellectual work of a high order and shows great knowledge and a power to transport one to the time and the actual scene. A picture by Constable was too coarse in execution to be really fine. Much of the foreign work was technically meritorious but the aim was not high, not high enough to present anything more important than their execution. After I had been there Selleck came to see me about the frame for the Wilson picture. I had to go with him to his shop to settle on the ornaments 

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