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Show RECOGNIZED WORK OF ARTiST Negro Quick to Hand Out WhaS : Might Be Called Important Pleco of Misinformation. Charles R. Knight, the artist, -whose reproductions of dinosaurs and creatures crea-tures of long ago are known the world over, prefers, however, to be know-is as a painter and sculptor of modern, animals. He has worked from the living liv-ing model as much as possible, anfl this has taken him to the zoos In many cities. He was telling his ex- perienees at the zoo in Washington). "One afternoon an important looking look-ing negro came along with his best' girl," he said. "They' stopped for minute and looked at the sketch I' was making of a deer. " 'Yer know what he am doin', dant.-yer?" dant.-yer?" asked the negro of his companion. com-panion. " 'Mebbe.' answered the womML "Does yoh?' " 'Shoh. He's making a landscape-ob landscape-ob one er dem habitats. Dere's iDoti habitats in dis zoo than anywhere else in der United States.' " |