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Riverton. New Jersey. 



March 17th. 1914. 



My dear Father; 



I was very sorry not to be able to get a letter off to you on Sun- 

 day, but I went out Saturday to Cynwyd and spent the Sunday with the Hamll- 

 tons, Emma was on for the Sunday so we had a very good time all of us to- 

 gether. Sunday aft©a?noon we went to the exibition at the Acadamy of Fine 

 Arts; Marie Page has two pictures there that are very fine, one is a 

 glorious portrait of Anna Ladd, Maynard's wife, and it is a superb thing. 

 She is standing, so that her side face and profile show, and holds in her 

 hand a clay or it may be bronze model, and is contemplating this. I never 

 realized she was so fine a looking woman or that she had so much power abort 

 her, her dress is a rich shade of soft bride red, and the warmth and master 

 fulness in the picture is something very striking. Her other picture is 

 called "A Tenement Mother" and is a charming piece of work. A young mother 

 in the garb of a working woman (but of course an attlsitc garb) and holding 

 in her arms a beautir.il cnild of about a year old, ana standing by her side 

 so that just the side of her face and tne uttie profile show is a little 

 goiaen haired girl of three or tnere noouts. me Mother is feeding the 

 baby, and the child is watching them, the Mother has that glorious shade of 

 red-gold hair, and the sunlight falls upon the picture in such a way as to 

 bring out the gold, in both tho childs hair and the Mothers, yet they are 

 very different shades of gold. Marie's colors are always so wonderful, 

 there is never anything negative about her tones, so many of the pictures 

 there were those soft washed out pinks, yellows, blues and reds; many of 

 the pictures were far more attractive I thought in the black and white 

 productions in the catalogue than in the origi#nals, but this is never true 

 of any of Maries. 



