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Well, relatively, and he had relatively few clients. He was working for one automobile company and I think he had one other customer. And he had one designer working with him. At one point he had as many as 500 people working for him and I don't know how many he has now, but he became extremely successful. I got him just enough additional business so that it helped him really get into the big time. I thought I had here a list of the customers, but it must be in another book.

Did you have anyreal regrets in leaving the art field when you left the Reinhardt Galleries?

Well, I tell you, I was very sad about my husband because I felt it was such a waste of life and yet I was absolutely unable to help him or affect him. It was in the Depression and I realized it was too precarious an existence, to be in the art business in bad times, because there were too few customers and one's livelihood was too much dependent on chance and on too small a base. So that from that point of view I really didn't feel bad about it.

Did the business itself suffer when he became an alcoholic?

Oh, yes, very, very, much, and eventually it went into a complete decline. I left at about 1930 and I think it was practically non-existent by about '35 or '36. I supported him off