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‘Young Dundee as Art Critics. School Children’s Clever Essays. Novel Competition’, The Dundee Advertiser, 8 April 1924

The competition held by Dundee Art Society, offering prizes to school children for an essay on the works shown at the annual exhibition at the Victoria Art Galleries, met with a keen and admirable response from young art critics and essayists all over Dundee.

There were two sections, for seniors and juniors, in the competition, and 125 essays were received from 12 schools. The Dundee Art Society Council met last night, and adjudicated upon the essays submitted, the awards being made as follows:

Seniors—1 Robert Cowan, aged 14, Stobswell Central School, who wrote on Mr. Philip de Laszlo’s portrait of Mrs. John M. Frazer (No. 201) [4727] …

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25/11/2007