The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History.
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December 10, 1917 Grinnell took me home to dinner and I again saw his 3 kids, who are charmingly frank and humorous. Grinnell told me that my old friend Kennedy is still at the ____kilns, Mts where I remember him 16 years ago. December 11, 1917 I visited the Sutro baths with a friend and swam in the tanks. December 12, 1917 I did some more shopping in Chinatown and visited the Columbia Theatre in the evening. December 13, 1917 Pearl Fair took me to a Spanish restaurant for lunch. Afterward we went to an art store and looked over a lot of bronzes of wolves and pumas by a local artist, Putnam, who is a man recently gone partially insane. His work is good; the attitudes being very striking but his style is rough and suggestive, the body being only blocked out or sketched. Later we visited a marine painter, Hansen, a blond giant who has a studio in an attic with a few old chairs and a small stove to keep it warm. He is doing a background of the Pribloff Ids for a furseal group at the Academy of Sciences.