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DAVID YEZZI: You came to this country first as a teenager?
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: I came here because of jazz, and I went to a prep school in Connecticut. There was a man there who'd freshly graduated from under Josef Albers and was very, very full of this enthusiasm and so on. It was very fresh to me coming out of England. England, you know, didn't really catch on to the idea of modern, twentieth-century painting very fast. There were very few modern paintings around, very, very few, and there was nothing in the museums, really. I came here and went to MOMA and then out to Philadelphia and saw the Arensberg Collection, and I was absolutely astonished. I mean there ...