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ERNEST R. DALTON Hackettstown...
...EILEEN DALTON Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, B.C.A...
...some of their own writings. Andre Derain's reply was a collector's item, a beautiful letter apparently done with brush or drawing pen. The best came last, from Raoul Dufy, who wrote that he wanted to help and would like a favor in return. He asked Dalton to find a house for him to rent in Tucson, where he could go to treat his arthritis. Dalton got busy and, as requested, kept the news of the trip to himself. All was ready last Jan. 22 when he met the train bearing Dufy, accompanied by his French housekeeper...
From then on Dalton spent much of his time at the artist's house, usually ate there at least once a day ("the cooking was wonderful"). He took the aging (74) Dufy out to see the West's color-splashed scenes-square dances, desert sunsets, a rodeo (where Dufy did two watercolors), a rodeo parade (where, sitting in a balcony, he did two more...
Before long Dalton decided that he had found a better subject for his thesis. He would write a biography of Dufy, use it to show the training of a painter. The artist agreed and spent many hours talking over his theories on art and education. He liked the finished thesis so much that he wrote a preface for it. Then, though he seldom paints a portrait, Dufy bade the student sit for him. The portrait, which he gave to Dalton, is considered to be one of his best...