Called John [John Clancy] he was enthusiastic about the pictures.
A.M. to Buffalo to have car looked at at the Justice Shop. A little shopping, then home for lunch, & then back again to the Jury meeting at the Albright Gallery for the Patteran show in New York. A boring procedure I must confess, saved only by some of the lyric contributions of Blair & Rowe. I was infuriated by the persistence of Weiss to have me in this show as a guest artist, altho I had told him Rehn did not want me to participate on account of the Whitney show & my own in January. He wanted to borrow museum & collectors’ pieces. I got him to promise to write to Rehn first — and I wrote to Frank myself too.
(Insert here my ideas on regional art.)
(Later (Oct. 21) it no longer seems worthwhile to express my views on such a matter as regional art) —-
These are truly rare October days; unusual for our territory, warm sunshiny days, some without a cloud in the hazy blue sky.
(Later [October 21] it no longer seems worthwhile to express my views on such a matter as regional art—
Oct 11 By parlor car (P.R.R.) to Phila. Emporium & adjacent country gives me a thrill.
5:00 A.M. chestnut hunting- Riding thru the dark town, with the moon high in the west...
Fine autumn weather—Clear skies, warm sunshine—And wonderful cool breezes from the south—A calm quietness has settled over all things. The odor of burning leaves—What an intoxication!
Morning brought a different mood! We both of us felt eager to go –
Off at 11:00 –
All the way to Rochester great sunlit cumulous clouds spread over the sky – a glorious sight.
About mid-morning, as we were registering for voting, one of the ladies said to me – “Did you know that Dr. Ehinger died last night?” while we all felt his days were numbered, still it came as a shock – I was unable to control the flow of tears that came (Why are we so loath to show grief in front of people?) – A feeling of desolation came over us – and all day we were remembering all that he has meant to us through the years (from 1925 on -)
Dense fog – oppressive humid weather – depressing.