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under the Sixth Avenue elevated - walking along, buying a paper. The form, the movement, the color, the composition is fine - it's lovely. One of his best pictures, one of the most fascinating ones he ever painted was pigeon fanciers on the roofs of New York tenements - men in shirt sleeves letting the pigeons out on Sunday morning. It's a scene that all of us who have lived in New York have seen so often. It's such a touching aspect of New York life. People don't know how lovely New York is and what sweet, charming nature lovers the people of New York are. They have to let pigeons out to satisfy that hunger for nature.

One of the most beautiful and most touching paintings that I ever saw was a picture that Bellows did that he called “Portrait of a Little Girl.” It was a child of the poor - there was no question about it. You knew from the look around her face that they were poor. She had on a white dress - cheap cotton but white - with a Hamburg ruffle around the yoke. Her hair was straight and not becomingly done. She had a stiff little posture, black stockings and shoes that you could tell by looking at them were cheap and would squeak. She just had that look that poor little girls have when they're going to the confirmation, only she didn't have any veil on her head. She was just a little girl who might have gone