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but she was of a Phildelphia family. There was another woman there named Elizabeth Jones, who I think never developed far, but who had lovely little genre paintings. Then there was Violet Oakley and a friend of hers who always painted out on the Main Line. Violet Oakley was really a super-illustrator. She and her friend were not in any sense of the word modernists, as we use the word today. She was a good painter. She painted well. She drew beautifully. She had some fine murals - some very beautiful murals which are still around.

Macbeth would show those. Then there were the group called the “Eight,” well known in American art history, who were denied a hanging at the New York Academy of Fine Arts. They had an annual show and an annual Varnishing Day. I was always invited to Varnishing Day. It was the style to go to that thing. The Art Students League was conducted in the same building. The Art Students League, of course, was the great school for painting and sculpture were everybody went. The annual Varnishing Day was really something. We followed with great interest what was coming through. All American artists were shown there.

Henri, I think, had made the Academy, but there was also a great decision among new young painters as to whether they would send their pictures to the Academy jury and whether