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and am greatly stirred by them. I also have always responded to the moderns. The first view of Picasso and Matisse did not distress me. I found them certainly unusual, but rewarding of study. I later developed some enthusiasm for them. I like the late Picassos. I really have ceased to use the word “like” in relation to art. I'm interested and intrigued by the late Picassos. I do not find them as personally enjoyable, nor do I have as much of an emotional comprehension and response to them as I do to the 12th and 13th Century Giottos that I went to see, which I find very stirring. That's just a personal reaction to them. But I find the latest Picassos very interesting too. They interest me. They stimulate my mind.

I also enjoy the abstractions. I don't really count Braque among the abstractionists, or only partly so. He's modernistic. I like non-objective art very much indeed. There are some wonderful pictures hung this week (week of 9 March 1953) in the Phillips Gallery in Washington. Katherine Derier was one of the first, and perhaps the largest, collector of a certain kind of painting which is called abstractionist. She's Mary Dreier's sister and operates in a completely different field of life from Mary Dreier and Margaret Robins. Yet, she's their sister. She was an abstract painter herself. She had great wealth and she