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they'd be hung or not. It was, of course, the same way in the Pennsylvania Academy too. There was great heart-burning in New York over that.

This group of the Eight thought themselves pretty good. They had a mutual admiration society, and also other people admired them. They couldn't get into the Academy. The jury rejected their pictures year after year. They had been rejected two or three years and they were good and mad. They were vigorous fellows. Some of them had studied in Europe. Some of them had studied with Henri. They thought they know how to paint.

Anyhow they formed a little group called the Eight. Mr. William Macbeth, who was the proprietor of this art gallery, encouraged them and said, “I will show your pictures. You can hang them here.” Publicity as a technique had not been invented. It's probably possible that publicity was natural and simple in those days. Some newspaper man might have heard about this and it was really news that there was to be a rebel group who were to show their pictures at Macbeths.

All of us, by which I mean all of the intelligentsia of the day, went. You couldn't get there quick enough to see the Eight. They were really wonderful. The Eight were George Bellows, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, George Luks, Henri, who always showed with them, and some more whom I've forgotten.