SIR:
It was extremely distressing to me to find today in Daniel Cation Rich’s comprehensive article on modern art, “Freedom of the Brush” (February Atlantic), a complete misquotation and therefore a misinterpretation of my attitude towards modern art.
The original misquotation appeared in the New York Journal American, November 26, 1946, and was followed by a derogatory paragraph about me in the December issue of the Art News by Alfred Frankfurter. In January, however, Mr. Frankfurter made a complete retraction of this paragraph, printed my own statement in full, and wrote me a personal letter of apology.
EUGENE SPEICHEK
New York City

I am sorry not to have seen Mr. Speicher’s letter to the Art News and Mr. frankfurter’s correction. All of us can be relieved that the narrow remarks attributed to Mr. Speicher in the New York Journal American were a misquotation and that his usual tolerance and sympathetic reaction to contemporary invention include an interest in abstract and surrealist form. Too many artists suffer from what Charlie McCarthy recently referred to as “hardening of the art galleries.”— DANEL CATTUN RICH