John Angelo at the water color exhibition (1883) (14762794022)

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Title: John Angelo at the water color exhibition
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 American Watercolor Society
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Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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VVATUK-Lll.ll..^. — l-uiiii,i hriili^i up. They had heard people say that painiing was abeggarly i^rofession, but they did not care for that,they both had a supreme scorn for riches, and hadshrewdly observed that artists had more fun thanother fellers. Artists, therefore, and life-comradesthey would be. It only remained for each to choosehis peculiar style, for, as Teddy Landseer remarkedto John Angelo: Pictures are different. Some like to paint land-scapes, and some like to paint waterscapes; andsome artists paint dogs and horses and folks andother animals; and some paint fiowers and things. % Yes, replied John Angelo. And they paintem (Hffe t. You set three artists to painting the JOHN ANGELO IISJTS THE WATER COLOR EXHIBITION. same landscape, and they wouldnt look the same.One fellows would be as green as a spinach-pot,and another would work it in all gray, and, like as not.
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A RlVERSiHE ANTIQUE. — ArtliKT QitartUy. he last one would get it brownish. 1 suppose theyjce things different. I dont see how they r^r;/ see things a l^i^rent, if they look at the same things, remarked Teddy. I do, replied John; we see what we like best, you know. Lets you and I take a run by Mr. Drapers studio door, and then tell each other what we saw. All right, go ahead.—What did you see t There was somebodyposing in the loveliest satindress; it looked just likemoonlight on a lily. I didnt see her dress,said Teddy Landseer ; butshe was a mighty prettyyoung lady. She had lovelyred hair and the jolliesteyes ; she looked straightat me and smiled, I wishI could smile like that. That so.? I didnt no-tice. But all right — didntI tell you artists see differ-ent >. Now if you will getyour fathers season ticketto the Water Color Exhibi-tion well go over, and youllsee they paint different. As the two boys stood inthe entrance hall of theAcademy of Design beforethe beautifully deco