Carroll Janis
Carroll Janis is an art historian and former director of the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. He has taught at Columbia University, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts, and has contributed to publications such as Art in America.
I never went to a museum show with a more sensitive and agreeable companion than Graham Nickson, my friend for more than forty years. He had the subtlest observations on whatever art we were seeing.
And so it was in the early fall of 1950, when I was eighteen and working alone one morning at the Janis Gallery, that Duchamp appeared at the front door. I greeted him warmly; he was a family friend while I was growing up. Marcel had a natural grace, refinement, and modesty.
