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a very, very beautiful, fine house. It had the hip roof of the late 17th Century. It had some 18th Century elements too, but it was very early 18th Century and very late 17th Century. It was a large house. His mother-in-law was Mrs. Holley, a very superior lady who was born a Mead of Greenwich. She was a very superior New England woman who conducted a boarding house in this old house of his. Mr. John Twachtman, who was one of the best of the American artists of the previous group - the group older than the Eight, many of the Eight having studied with him - conducted a summer school of painting out there. Childe Hassam had studied with him. Mr. Twachtman eventually settled down, married and lived nearby in Cos Cob or Greenwich, on the other side of the road. This old house had been the scene for ten, fifteen or twenty years of a summer art school. Many of them had gone there to paint during the summer and they all knew each other very well indeed.

This group had heard about what was going on in Europe and they were most anxious to bring over to this country some of the paintings of the old world. MacRae, Henri and Shinn went over to buy up what they could see, and to see if they could arrange it.

I knew all these people. I really don't know how I knew them. New York was smaller in those days. Horses pranced