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that she had learned. But when it came to individual selection, she had very little knowledge or understanding of what made a good picture. I think that both Mrs. Roosevelt and the President would have, if given a free choice, admired Grandma Moses's work, or the works of Thomas Brown more than anything else.

Thomas Brown was a very good painter of the late Victorian period. He painted bootblacks, among other things, in the park shining gentlemen's shoes. That was one of his favorite subjects. He painted a Paris news seller selling the newspaper to somebody or other. He is not a man who has hit the museum line as yet, but his works were very much admired in their time and are beautifully painted. Don't think for a moment that his paintings are my taste, but I do recognize good painting when I see it. This is good painting. He had control of the tools of his trade. He knew how to do it. When I say that they will one day be collectors' items, it's because they are good, of their kind.

It was the same say with John Francis Murphy. My father and mother had bought Murphy's pictures, as had my great aunt, Anne Daniels. They were largely moonlight scenes and things of that sort. My father and mother had thought of them as just being the accidental enthusiasms