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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Whistler

for some time, then mix up the colour, then, holding his brush quite at the end, with no mahlstick,

make a downward stroke and the pile was done. I remember his looking very casually at a handsome

cab that had pulled up for some purpose on the bridge, and in a few strokes, he got the look of it
perfectly. He was long over the picture, sometimes coming only once a week, and we got rather

tired of it. One day some friends came to see it. He stood it against a table in an upright position for

them to see; it suddenly fell on its face, to my brother’s disgust, as he had just got a new carpet.

Luckily Whistler’s sky was pretty dry, and I don’t think the picture got any damage, and the artist
was most good-natured about my brother’s anxiety lest the carpet should have suffered.” (Pennell

and Pennell)

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