1. Guston, quoted in "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality," by Rosamond Frost, Art News (February 1945).

2. Walter Read Hovey, "Repose and Dignity Mark Top Painting of Carnegie Exhibit," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1945.

3. Greene, op. cit.

4. In the same issue, Life ran a picture story, "The Ku Klux Klan Tries a Comeback," showing graphic characterizations of hooded figures with bulky white cotton work gloves going through clownish gestures before an electric light cross. There is also a hangman's noose in the background.

5. Mary Holmes, "Metamorphosis and Myth in Modern Art," Perspective (Winter 1948).

6. Robert Phelps, interview with the author, May 1973.

7. Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, January 16, 1852, op. cit.