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an effort which not two artists in Paris could paint and she must change the dress of her principal figure from [[strikethrough]] black [[/strikethrough]] pink to black and make a young widow of her. And this only a few days before the picture has to go.
Dodge a very ambitious and clever young American here has been painting for a year a picture 15 metres long this burial of an Indian chief - figures 9 ft high and any number of them and he has now been requested by the jury of the Exposition not to send it as it is too big and they hav'nt room for it - no wonder - and of course he cant get it into the Salon