Frank Webb on Edgar Whitney.....

Ed Whitney would sometimes find an unattractive spot in a painting that he was critiquing. He would handle this by saying that the student should make something beautiful near the bad area so that attention would be directed there instead. To clarify this he would tell of the lady who had had a goiter operation should buy a lavaliere. Such an attractive jewel at her throat would command attention, making the ugly spot less noticeable. One day Ed asked me if I had ever read my student's notes. “No, why do you ask?” I said. Ed replied, “This morning at breakfast at the Narragansett I asked Mary if I could see her notes made at my critique the day before. She had written, ‘If you’ve had a goiter operation, buy a chandelier.”...Frank Webb

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