The Archive · 1925

Mrs, Oleg Tweedie Arrives

'An interesting arrival from the Orient recently was Mrs. Alec Tweedie FRGS, PRE, artist and authoress. She' passed through Vancouver on her way to London after enjoying an abundance experiences across the Pacific. She was completing a year's cruise around the out-of-the-way places of the globe, Train wrecks and starve. tion in Siberia, earthquakes in Japan and many other thrilling experiences fell to her lot while gathering material for colour sketches for her atest book. Fresh from what she described 3 the want and misery of Soviet Russia to Japan Mra. Tweedie arrived in the land of the chrysanthemum at the time of the earthquake and took her first view of the quaint old world places amid falling ashes and debris. Her work on China and Japan will form the basis of a collection of 120 canvases:

Mrs Tweedie will paint for exhi ion at the Paris salon in 1926. Ste, war specially invited to do this lene Gorges Petits. Mrs. Tweedie, in addition to other Pita rise wut Reproduced with per

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