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...letter from the U.S. was addressed to "His Honor, the Mayor of Hiroshima," and began: "Greetings from Santa Fe . . . Our city lies in the shadow of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb." She was not writing to open old scars, continued Art Supervisor Susan B. Anderson, but to bring about better understanding between the two cities. One way to understanding, she thought, was through the eyes of children: why not let schoolchildren of Hiroshima and Santa Fe exchange paintings of the life around them...
With the help of Japanese-born Artist Chuzo Tamotzu, she was holding two art exhibits 6,000 miles apart. For Santa Fe, the show was an eye-opener. The U.S. kids had sent Hiroshima 125 youthfully American scenes: pictures of horses, cowboys, mesas, adobe huts decorated with strings of red chili peppers. The 125 pictures they got in return were startling, not because they were different, but because they were remarkably similar in style. They were amazingly modern and well done, showed only the faintest trace of traditional Oriental art. Instead of stylized cherry trees and dainty bridges, Hiroshima...
...effect on Santa Fe's youngsters was electric. They gaped at the Japanese grade-scholars' craftsmanship, were surprised at how much the kids in the pictures looked like themselves. "Why, these don't seem foreign at all," said one nine-year-old. "They look like my friends." But they did wonder why there were no blond children in Japan, and wished they could read the Japanese writing in the pictures...
...until 1906, when he was 40, did Artist Leigh go West. He did it then by persuading the Santa Fe Railroad to give him a free ticket in return for a painting of the Grand Canyon. The company ordered five more Grand Canyon pictures on the strength of the first, and between his Can yon commissions, Leigh roamed the vast, raw, neighboring country on horseback, sketching as he went...
...Eared. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., telephone service in the state capitol was halted while fumigators got rid of the bedbugs in the main switchboard...