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These men and a newspaper man from the World went over to Europo. The newspaper man was the one who on the day the World War broke out sat in Mrs. Holley's dining room and told us that the war wouldn't last three weeks and that the Russians would have won the whole thing by that time. Just like that. He knew everything and was sure he knew it. He was with these men who went over to see what they could find and what arrangements they could make.

How they did it, I don't know. I don't know who they saw, how they got the artists to exhibit. It was not the Academy; it was not the academicians; it was not the leading artists of America. It was this young group, who had social vision and who also had a new scientific approach to light and to painting, who brought the show over and who managed it. It was enormous. They brought over everything. It was a knockout to most of us who had not seen the modern paintings. Even people who had traveled in Europe, as I had traveled, had rarely seen introduced to the modern paintings in Paris. We knew the Barbizon School, yes.

Vincent Van Gogh I thing was in that show. Constantin Brancusi, the sculptor, was in that show. There was that wonderful head of Mile. Pogany by Brancusi. It was a perfect egg shaped piece of polished marble with the famous suggestion of a line where eyebrows sometimes are. We oh'd and ah'd over