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When I asked that question I was thinking not only of American blacks but blacks wherever--Africa, or even Haiti. I can never recall having seen, that I can recall, a Haitian work in the Museum.

That's right.

There's something of a school of art in Haiti, isn't there, or at least some uniqueness to Haitian art.

Right. Now, since her death I took my granddaughters to the exhibit of primitive art, and of Picasso.

This has been rather recent, hasn't it?

Yes, this is within the last year.

I get the impression there's been a new interest in how so-called “primitive” art, especially African art, influenced Picasso and other modern artists.

Right. I was very happy to take my granddaughters to see that. Now she did not resign, although she wanted to, from the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commission. She wrote, when she found that she was terminally ill, to Nash Castro and told him that she felt she ought not to block a replacement since she wouldn't be able to return. He wrote her back and said, “No, we're going to keep you in place.” She didn't resist on that.