As teacher, docent and painter, she attended art lectures and took precise notes on composition—Mondrian’s balance of unequal by equivocal oppositions and the cubism in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. She filled unused pages of a son’s college notebooks and the blank pages of her own old sketchbooks where she discovered a few random of childrens’ scribblings. Mildred also wrote notes during her Washington University lecture notes on the backs of some of her leftover attendance sheets from teaching at Webster Groves High School.
Also see, from this and earlier times at college, Drawings and Life Drawings.
