Show letters of an art student being a second communication from charles dana gibson to robert W chambers my dear chambers in my last let ter I 1 told you of my remarkable die covery that red and blue mixed to gether produce purple since then I 1 have happened on a number of sur things and I 1 regret a thousand times that I 1 did not take up the study of color years ago would you be aleve that blue and yellow combined give greena I 1 had always supposed that green was a primary color one sees so much of it in nature I 1 do not yet quite see why it should not be bu my greatest discovery Is endy it happened this way clean ing my palette the other day I 1 scraped the dabs of paint into a heap and this casual mixture produced the most beautiful tint unlike anything in the pain shops I 1 immediately named it endymion and gathered it in a tube it wo lid be very effective in a greek landscape and I 1 intend to send some to otho gushing to color his olympian fashion plates with my one tube la priceless as I 1 cannot seem to find the combination again though I 1 have tried a dozen times and wasted a vast quan city of colors I 1 think a beautiful poem might be written on say the lost tint the first stanza runs in my head as follows seated one day at my easel i was weary and at ease and my fingers wandered idly scraping the palette s lees I 1 an not much of a hand at verse making perhaps you can do some thing with it it Is more in your line As ever D GIBBON |