I make this statement. In the same institute they had a show representing 200 years of American painting. Then we went through and saw that. To put the ten greatest American paintings of the past in with the works of our predecessors . . . The greatest Bellows hung beside a Velasquez.
American art is in the future.
There is little mural art in the United States worth contemplating. America must waken to a greater ap-preciation of all the arts. Read, read, read. Discuss what you read with those few people that are also interested. Read up on anthropology and the biological sciences.