A CRITIC.
A prominent artist, whose black-and-white work for tho illustrated pap.rs is vow generally admired, tells a story of his early days, when his lives were cast in harder places than at preseut. "I was pretty hard up, and was obliged to make a living by quick paintings at neighbouring couutry fairs. I remember how, on one such occasiou. I was surrounded by a crowd gazing raptly at my work. I was hurriedly conveying the colours from the tubes to my palette, aud from there to the cheap stuff supposed to be cauvas, very auxious to get the effect desired aud to be through the job, for I was desperately hungry. The mau nearest me was quite absorbed, aud he fiually exclaimed: "You're a clever mau, s>r, painting two pictures at once. " Then, after a pause, he added, "But that one you've got your thumb through i 5 better than tho other standing ou that there little easel."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 6
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159A CRITIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 6
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