. John Angelo at the water color exhibition . ssams Spring-time. Ted! exclaimed John Angelo,I have been thinking about anotherexhibition of pictures I went to see atan auction store the other day. Theywere European paintings — an awfullycheap lot. They looked like the pict-ures you see on cretonne — just aboutthe same color effect — such screamingblues and greens and furious could see the artists painted themon for the American public, andthat they had an idea that the Ameri-can public had no brains nor taste. JOHN ANGELO VISITS THE WATER COLOR. And yet they were going at the
. John Angelo at the water color exhibition . ssams Spring-time. Ted! exclaimed John Angelo,I have been thinking about anotherexhibition of pictures I went to see atan auction store the other day. Theywere European paintings — an awfullycheap lot. They looked like the pict-ures you see on cretonne — just aboutthe same color effect — such screamingblues and greens and furious could see the artists painted themon for the American public, andthat they had an idea that the Ameri-can public had no brains nor taste. JOHN ANGELO VISITS THE WATER COLOR. And yet they were going at the fanciest prices. Themoney paid for one hideous thing by a Spanish artistwith a big name, would have bougiit a half-dozen of the little gems at the wa-ter color exhibition. So much the betterfor the right kind of pict-ure-buyers ! cried Tedgleefully, The ugly high-priced foreign pictures canonly be bought fewrich swells, you see, whilepeople who are just com-fortably off can afford tobuy the really nice workof our own American ar-.
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