Hubert Humphery gives a piece of paper to an 80 year old woman, and the houri plays

The watercolor is not badly done. It shows signs of European training in the mastery of light effect, the canonical pose, the gesture of the delicate hand rendered effortlessly as a result of hundreds of hours of atelier time imitating the plaster casts of classic figures. It was painted by one of the women of the Spicer clan in central Minnesota. The artist, in fact, had lived in the very house in which the painting is hung, and in which we are to spend the night. Humphery is handing over something to the woman, Jessie Spicer.