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purchased a great many abstract paintings. By her will she bequeathed most of them to the Phillips Gallery. Practically everything else the Phillips Gallery has has been purchased or given to them by Mr. or Mrs. Phillips. This was the first large bequest that they'd ever had, and it's very important. But it's all abstractionists. They are what I mean by abstract paintings. This is where you see on the wall a piece of white canvas or sheet and you see a few lines going this way or the other way. It's really more than non-objective. The non-objective is not necessarily an abstraction. As a matter of fact, some of the abstract painters have derived a part of their inspiration and patterns from geometrical figures which can be plotted out by logarithms or an algebraic figure.

When templates are laid out on the ship loft during the building of a ship, they form beautiful lines. That has been the inspiration of more than one pure abstract painting. It's still a struggle to abstract from the universe something that can be given form and color which will convey some of the truth that exists in the relations of the stars, and the constellations, and the universes to each other. It's very abstract, and that's all I can say about it. I happen to find that interesting. I can't say that I would choose that if I had but one picture to choose. I wouldn't.