Will Low, the muralist, indicated the frustrations when he said: I am almost as tired of the 'early settlers' as I am of 'Justice', 'Science', and 'Art': but there is a rich field in the myths and history which we have inherited in common with all the modern world.13To Kenyon Cox, American history was too short and unfitted and modern costume [too] formless and ugly to be a part of ideal art