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...conversion significant is that he is one of the oldest abstractionists going, with an established prewar-Paris reputation. In the '30s he rated one-man shows, shared gallery space in group shows with such now famous moderns as Alberto Giacometti, Arp, Hans Hartung and Kandinsky. Gertrude Stein, who had taken a shine to the strapping, red-haired painter from Pendleton, Ore., announced in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider as a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might only perhaps nobody can do that thing...
...Hopper went to Paris in 1906 for a year of study. But he bore little resemblance to the popular notion of an American art student in France. He kept to himself, sketching and painting along the Seine and in the parks. "I had heard of and knew about Gertrude Stein," he recalls, "but I wasn't important enough for her to know me. About the only important person I knew was Jo Davidson, and he was willing to look at me only because I knew the girl he was going to marry-met her on the boat going over...
...read about Dr. Stein's psychoanalyses of the six modern witches [Sept. 3] with a feeling of sadness for them and for the doctor also, to whom they were "loathsome hags." Let's hope that in time he and others like him in the Jung school will come to see such women less as fiends and more as suffering human beings...
...Stein smacking his lips in animal desire, analytical discipline, or senile wishful thinking...
...absolutely frightening to read the ramblings of Dr. Stein. He obviously is in need of a good analyst himself...