“Sometimes there would be the very real agony of hurt pride, that only a painter knows, when, as the saying goes, a jury would ‘kick out’ pictures, considered in their joint opinion, as unfit to be in the exhibition they had been sent to grace. On one such occasion, when Old Hawaiian Riding and Hawaiian Bride had been invited to the San Francisco Civic Museum, and then became refusés two weeks later at the Oakland Annual, I received a letter from Diego Rivera. He said he was ‘mad’ at the Oakland jury’s ‘stupidity,’ and added ‘Had I been on the jury refusing your pictures, I would have RENOUNCED at once.’”

Madge Tennent, Autobiography of an Unarrived Artist, p. 21