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to her confirmation the next day. It was one of the most touching and beautiful pictures. That picture was rejected by the Academy. It was one of the most beautiful paintings that I ever saw anywhere. It deserved to be hung alongside the best Manets. It has that quality in it.

This Eight group was very exciting. There were new movements in art. Other people were trying to paint as they did. I think that during that period there was even another gallery opened up somewhere, so that there were three galleries where you could go see modern American painting.

There was a man out in Greenwich, Connecticut named Elmer MacRae who was also of this group. He still lives. I don't think he belonged to the Eight. He's an old man now, but still lives in the same house that he always lived in. He was a great friend of Childe Hassam. Childe Hassam was an academician. He was at the very peak of his powers and popularity during the First World War. He painted that wonderful picture that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of a Fifth Avenue victory parade. It's one of the most beautiful pictures imaginable. It's Fifth Avenue in the brilliant sunshine with flags of all nations and the parade going down the street. That kind of thing went on all the time during the First World War. Hassam was just at his peak then and was a very fine painter. He painted somewhat in the pointillism