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Show PAINTING IN THE DABS. Artists are known to be often eccentric eccen-tric In their methods, but H. Keyworth Ralne appears to have adopted an entirely en-tirely original system of his own. While his copfreres of the brush are seeking by artfully placed studios to have a steady, brilliant light upon their work, Mr. Ralne retires to the seclusion of an I underground London cellar, and there he paints portraits which are remark- able for their beauty and strength. The light he elects to work by can scarcely be called light at all, for even the enfeebled en-feebled rays 'which filter through into his dingy studio are practically stopped by tissue paper and curtains. .Mr. Ralne recently gave an exhibit ton of his method At a London hotel.. On four consecutive days he painted for an hour at a time In a room which was almost al-most dark, watched eagerly the while by a committee of literary, Journalistic and art critics. At the end of the four hours the light .was. let into the room.' and a fine portrait, full of power and originality, was seen to have been pro-ducedv pro-ducedv Chambers' Journal, , -L , , . |