I soon found out what the trouble was. I had a knack of bringing out in the face of a portrait the hidden character of the original. I don't know how I did it — I painted what I saw — but I know it did me. Some of my sitters were fearfully enraged... O. Henry Biography - Pagina 85di Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 258 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1915 - 680 pagine
...Square Arabian Night" an artist, picked at random from the "free-bed line," is made to say : "Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...don't know how I did it — I painted what I saw." III. In 1882, at the age of twenty, O. Henry moved from Greensboro to Texas. His life in Texas has... | |
| North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - 1906 - 942 pagine
...Square Arabian Night"1 an artist, picked at random from the "free-bed line," is made to say: "Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...don't know how I did it — I painted what I saw." III. In 1882, at the age of twenty, O. Henry moved from Greensboro to Texas. His life in Texas has... | |
| O. Henry - 1907 - 274 pagine
...left. The newspapers called me a fashionable painter. Then the funny things began to happen. Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...know how I did it — I painted what I saw — but I know it did me. Some of my sitters were fearfully enraged and refused their pictures. I painted the... | |
| O. Henry - 1917 - 284 pagine
...left. The newspapers called me a fashionable painter. Then the funny things began to happen. Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it, and whisper and look quccrly at one another. " I soon found out what the trouble was. I had a knack of bringing out in the... | |
| O. Henry - 1908 - 444 pagine
...left. The newspapers called me a fashionable painter. Then the funny things began to happen. Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...know how I did it — I painted what I saw — but I know it did me. Some of my sitters were fearfully enraged and refused their pictures. I painted the... | |
| North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 pagine
...Square Arabian Night" an artist, picked at random from the "free-bed line," is made to say: "Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...don't know how I did it — I painted what I saw." III. In 1882, at the age of twenty, O. Henry moved from Greensboro to Texas. His life in Texas has... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 302 pagine
...Square Arabian Night," an artist, picked at random from the "free-bed line," is made to say: Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...and look queerly at one another. I soon found out a § 7 o i 00 "03 p ~ J o 3 what the trouble was. I had a knack of bringing out in the face of a portrait... | |
| O. Henry - 1917 - 280 pagine
...left. The newspapers called me a fashionable painter. Then the funny things began to happen. Whenever I finished a, picture people would come to see it,...hidden character of the original. I don't know how 1 did it — I painted what I saw — but I know it did me. Some of my sitters were fearfully enraged... | |
| O. Henry - 1917 - 284 pagine
...left. The newspapers called me a fashionable painter. Then the funny things began to happen. Whenever I finished a picture people would come to see it,...another. "I soon found out what the trouble was. I had a 26 knack of bringing out in the face of a portrait the hidden character of the original. I don't know... | |
| Ulrich Marzolph - 2006 - 398 pagine
...explained how, after being a fashionable painter, he suddenly found himself out of business because he "had a knack of bringing out in the face of a portrait the hidden character of the original." People, he concluded, "don't want their secret meanness shown up in a picture"; The Trimmed Lamp (New... | |
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