Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — RECOGNIZED WORK OF ARTIST [ARTICLE]

RECOGNIZED WORK OF ARTIST

Negro Quick to Hand Out What Might Be Called Important Piece of Misinformation.

Charles R. Knight, the artist, whose reproductions' of dinosaurs and creatures of long aso are known the world over, preterit, however, to be known as a painter and sculptor of modern animals. He has worked from the living model as much as possible, and this has taken him to the zoos in mSny cities. . He was telling his experiences at the zoo in Washington.' “One afternoon an Important looking negro came along with his best girl,” he said. “They stopped for a minute and looked at the sketch I was making of a deer. " *' ‘Yer know what he am ddin’, don't yer?” asked the negro of his companion. “ ‘Mebbe,’ answered the woman. ‘Does yoh?’ ** ‘Shoh. He's making a landscape ob one er dem habitats. Dere’s moh habitats In dis zoo than anywhere /else In der United States.’ ”