Lula Merrick, "In the World of Art," The Morning Telegraph," June 11, 1922, p. 3

"Nor does she boast of being a quick painter, an instant recorder if types and customs. Sometimes when a problem interests her she studies it for months before beginning her picture, as she did when she painted her well-known "Music Lovers", now owned by a leading New York collector. She went to the Metropolitan Opera House one afternoon to buy tickets for a current production , for she is an ardent music lover herself. As she had to wait her turn in a long line at the box office, she passed her time in studying the varied types of music lover: some buying orchestra seats and many securing places in the upper galleries. She thought the scene a good one to paint and went home to immediately make sketches from memory. But that day did not complete her picture by any means. She studied the line at the box office for months before beginning her picture. What she has gained thus in her career, has been distinctly her own, and as she is a thinker and worker to whom no problem is too difficult to probe"