ofa difterent sort. I can best express the mean-ing of this remark by quoting a remark Arnold(lenthe told me Theodore Roosevelt oncemade to him. Roosevelt was complaining be-cause American artists went over to Franceand painted French models, landscapes, por-traits and so forth. Why. exclaimed… … : .ij. I/ Lhkran KclclciaiiPONTRAIT DEGAS fluence of Degas will be not to make us try topaint as he did, but to try to see life as hodid—to see it with the clear and piercing eyesof truth—truth without gloss, sentimentality,tradition, prejudice. To all of which Degas would say to nic, ifhe were…
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