John Clancy: Hopper didn't come in to us until 1924. He walked in one day, an unknown. In fact, it was close to lunch hour and he came in and said he had some watercolors that he wanted to show Rehn. Rehn said, "All right. Go into the back room and undo them and I'll be right with you." So Hopper did so. Rehn got finished with what he was doing and he came back and he was perfectly fascinated with them. He said, "I like these; I'd like to show them. …"Then we began to show them to different people and they got all excited. John T. Spaulding, the noted Boston collector, was one of the first purchasers of Hopper along with Mrs. Elizabeth Blanchard. In fact, John T. Spaulding used to hang his Hoppers right close to his Homers."

Audio clip from Paul Cummings' interview with John Clancy, July 10, 1970, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.