jeago art lovers are most enthusiastic about an. exhibition of pictures and etchings which, for the past few weeks now, has been gracing the walls of the Arts Club of Chicago, that most progressive fort club where exhibition is by invitation only. Shanghai will likewise be interested and enthu: for the exhibition is entirely Chinese in character, and is the work of Miss Lucille Douglas, well known in Shanghai a Miss Douglass, who is in Chicago until her exhibition closes on April 10, has had two most successful and interesting years since she left Shanghai. Her pabtcls, some of which she finished in China, during' week-ends spent on houseboats, and others which she completed from sketches in her home in Tennessee where she went direct from the Orient, have won for her recognition as one of the foremost American artists to-day. In her' etchings, an entirely new field for her, she has likewise won immediate recognition, Miss Douglass that she became interested in etchings after she had finished the black and white drawings for Mrs. Ayscough's book "A Chinese Mirror," which, incidentally, is a belt seller everywhere in America. Miss lustration for this book been reproduced in neWs-and periodicals allover jons to illustrate several cther books, m ably (we on Cambodia and Java. Thege books will be written by Mrs. Below Churchill Candee sometime during the next year. Mxs, Candee will leave the United States for the Orient in the late summer and Miss Douglass will a company her.
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