MISS DAGMAR ROSS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 24 (Supplement)

MISS DAGMAR ROSS.

This young lady is scarcely as yet to be called an artist, but we give her as a type of the young New Zealand aspirant ; whose mind is full of ambition and the need of expression, and who feels the stir of the art instincts — the natural result of a beautiful and picturesque environment. It is from natures like this, intuitional and perceptive, that a national school {if we are ever able to evolve one) must take its source, and we confidently look to our native-born young colonials to inaugurate such a school. Miss Ross has as yet only put her foot on the lowest step, but we wish her every success and encouragement. She commenced her technical course in 1898 under Miss Fanny Wimperis, at her studio, the " Red Cottage," and later became the pupil of Miss Jenny Wimperis, and she is now studying under Mr Butler. Her taste is chiefly for the painting of animals, especially horses, and her ambition leads her to depict them in many difficult attitudes. "Failing them on rainy Saturdays, I devote myself to rabbits, which, as subjects, are most fascinating, if they were only a little less impossible as models." Last year Miss Ross sent five studies to the Art Society's . exhibition, which were favourably commented on by the Press, "and show a considerable amount of talent and originality, &o that we feel entitled to predict a successful future for this budding artist, two of whose pictures we have great pleasure in presenting to our readers.