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astounding burst of strength and beauty in the hedge at the right side is formed by two tones of the same green.

Where can one find a row of figures forming one simple and impressive rhythm such as here, until one has gone clear back to the painting of the Egyptians? And the nobility of gesture and of grouping in the other figures—but I have said they needed no comment and so I leave them.

These pictures form part of the group of contemporary Indian art which will be shown at the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, from March eleventh to April first. They are a novelty in such an exhibition but the directors of the Society felt that its work must certainly include the showing of the Indian pictures. Readers of The Dial who recall the article on the Schamberg Memorial Exhibition last year will be interested to learn that the sale there of the painter's work created a fund which, donated to the Independents by the artist's family, permitted the holding of the present of the Indian paintings.

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