The Westminster Art School Students did not discuss Art in general very much. They soberly drudged at the foundations, grounding themselves, working like ditch-diggers, straightening, widening, deepening the channel through which something was to flow—none were quite sure what as yet. I never wrote home about my work nor did my people ask me about it. A student said to me once, “Are any of your people Artists?” “No.” “Take my advice, then—don’t send any…

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The slope of my attic roof rose in a broad benevolent peak, poking bluntly into the sky, sinking to a four-foot wall. At one end of the gable were two longs, narrow windows which allowed a good view view to come into the room, a view of sea, roof top and purple hills. Directly below the windows spread a great western maple tree, very green. Things about my place were more spready than high, myself,…

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