 By the time she left Cooper Union, Lefranc had already met Alice Marriott, author and anthropologist, who had come to New York in 1940 to help to set up the landmark American Indian Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, along with Rene d'Harnoncourt, Mary and Frederic Douglas and Kent Fisher.Lefranc had already met D'Hornoncourt when guesting on his "Art in America" radio program.D'Harnoncourt, Frederic "Eric" Douglas and Alice Marriott were all friends.