THE IMPORTANT 'ME'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 30 April 1908, Page 38

THE IMPORTANT 'ME'

Robert Henri, the artist, was among the crowd at a large private view of new pictures in New York not "long ago, and was pausing before a portrait by Sargent when he noticed a big, brawny man, who looked likle anyxihdng; b,ut an artist, engaged in admira-tHon' of the same canvas and murmuring : ' They have given me a good place at last ! ' Henri grew interested immediately. ' You are in this sort of work ? ' he asked. 1 Been at fit for twenty years,' assented the stranger ; • and, this isi the first time I ever got on the line. ' ' Ah, indeed,' echoed the now thoroughly, interested artist. ' And ' where is your picture ? ' • The stranger pointed to the Sargent. ' Right there,' he responded. • That ?' ' said Henri. ' Why, Sargent painted that!" f PaJinted it ! ' sniffed the- brawny man. ' Yes, I th&nk Sargent was the name of the main that • painted it, but it was me made the frame.' . . -