WOMAN PAINTER’S SUCCESS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12211, 8 August 1925, Page 15

WOMAN PAINTER’S SUCCESS

I see that critics have picked out Mrs Dod Proctoris monumental study of "The Model" in the Academy as a suitable picture for this year's Chantrey Purchase, says a writer in an exchange. If the Chantrey Committee takes a hint there will be much rejocining among the younger members of the art colony at Newlyn, of which the artist’s husband, Mr Ernest Profctor —author of the striking picture of a Cornish fair in the same room —is one of the recognised leaders. Tho Protors live and work in a delightful house which they have converted from a set of fishermen's cottages. The yard where formerly pilchards were flopped down in thousands has been converted to an Italian loggia. It has white plaster walls, oak columns with granite capitals carved by Ernest Procter, and a wonderful of Burmese pottery brought baok when the artists visited K those pttris to detforate the mansion of a local notable.

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