Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — An Impressionist's Luck. [ARTICLE]

An Impressionist's Luck.

He was an artist of the impressionistic school. Being rather shaky in drawing, he made up for his lack of technic by spreading the color recklessly and counting on distance to lend enchantment to the view. And at the exhibition he hung one of his most reckless performances. Then he took a friend to see It. “Well,” remarked the friend, after gazing at it for a few minutes, “I don't want to flatter you. old man, but that is the best thing you have done for many a day. That is a picture worthy the name. I congratulate you!”_ The artist looked again nt the picture, much pleased with the criticism—and turned red. The hanging committee had placed it on the wall upside down. But lie made no objection. The original price mark had been sl9. An hour later It sold for s6l.