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try to save him, but evidently his condition was so poor that he died in about ten days in spite of everything and at this young age.

Well, you know, he has had exhibits all over the world. He had a great exhibit in Paris last summer at the museum opposite the Musee de I'art Moderne. I forget what it's called, but it's part of the French government exhibit area. He has been shown by many people. He has a painting in the Tate Gallery in London and his fame is very substantial.

Before he died, I did buy two good pictures--one a large one, which is now at the United States mission on loan, and one a small one like this in colors. The big one is in black and white. His loss is very very sad because he was a person of great charm and great originality.

Gottlieb was an entirely different kind of a person. I took Governor Stevenson to see him with Mr. Rice, too. Gottlieb worked in a studio of complete and fantastic neatness and order in New York--downtown also--as if he were a good, skilled artisan. His pictures were very large. He showed a few of them. The ones that I saw at this particular time in '61 I wasn't tempted to buy, but later on I bought two beautiful ones--one of three sunsets (it's at the United States mission) and one that I've loaned to the New York University Hospital of a great explosion. They're paintings that could only be painted after the explosion