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that. Then Modigliani was a man who showed there and who did these terrifically elongated necks.

Another one of the night was Arthur B. Davies. He was a prime mover in the Armory Show. This Armory Show had everything in it. One of the things that interested me was that the man who took first prize at the Armory Show and sold his picture for an enormous sum was Elmer MacRae - “Brown” MacRae. The picture he exhibited was beautifully painted. It was bought by an art museum somewhere and they paid $2,000 for it, which was a preposterous price in those days. It was children on a ferryboat painted in modern style. It was lovely. I don't suppose he's ever sold a picture since. He painted all the time, but twenty-five or thirty years ago he stopped painting except on order. He was a good craftsman. Then he began to make chests, panel decorations, carvings and so on. It was a living. His painting was never as brilliant or as good as Sloan, Shinn, bellows and that group, who all had very distinguished painting careers and got big prices for their paintings. “Brown” MacRae never got big prices although at that time his picture was considered the best in the American section.

At that Armory Show I saw Odilon Redon for the first time. Redon is not much shown today. He was