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style - not completely. He didn't go as far as Seurat, but he had that impressionistic method of painting light - little bits of spots of paint from which the light was reflected and gave you the glow and sense of warmth. He had a beautiful technique for the painting of nudes in that way so that the flesh tones actually glowed, instead of being painted on flat like Adolphe Bouguereau's. He was an actually good painter and had studied in France in the Barbizon group.

Elmer MacRae was a very distinguished and very fine painter. He was a very sensitive painter. He and one or two others of this group were not rich enough to go to Europe easily. Europe was a long way off in those days. I had been fortunate enough to go a good deal because my father used to take me, but people didn't just jump up and go to Europe at a moment's notice. Elmer MacRae and one or two others of this group - I guess Everett Shinn and Henri certainly - got themselves together and went to Europe. I know that Elmer - “Brown” as we called him - went over on a cattle ship. He worked his way over any way you could. His name was Elmer, but it was a dreadful name for him and his friends called him “Brown” MacRae.

There is really a fascinating connection in him of ancient America with the modern. He lived in an old house in Cos Cob, Conn. which is a part of Greenwich. It was a house which had been a pre-Revolutionary inn and tavern. It was