Context Begins With Other Artists - Seniors

I Met David Smith Through My Former Wife, Cornelia, Who'd Studied With Him.

For Me Context Is The Key - From That Comes The Understanding Of Everything.

In The '50s Morris Louis And I Were Not Known, David Smith And Helen Frankenthaler Were Not Much Known.

As Time Goes On, I Realize More And More That, Beginning In The Early 30's, David Smith Began Setting The Precedent For What Was To Come Later For Many Of Us.

With Artists Of My Own Generation There Was At First No Group Identity - And Never A Clique.