THE UNPREJUDICED OBSERVER

New Zealand Tablet, 1 June 1911, Page 1029

THE UNPREJUDICED OBSERVER

• ylr ? g woman who spends much of her time copying m the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently said in the .New York Sun that a criticism that lids helped her a great deal m her work came from a man to whom she took a picture to be framed. th «. picture progressed my friends told me it was tine, she said. 1- Some of I t M other copyists said it had value, character, good coloring,” and all those things,” and even one of the guards in the gallery got real friendly one day and remarked that it was the best copy of that picture he had seen. 1 * I began to think that maybe, after all, my several years of study were beginning to bear fruit; When the picture was finished I took it to the framer, where I picked out a good frame. The man began to figure out the cost. ill tell you, miss,” he said after a while “that frame will come to three dollars and ninety-eight cents 11 1 were you I d get something cheaper for that picture.” 1