In the Fairhaven Town Hall can be seen the work of Bradford, EIdred and Charles Gifford. And this brings up an incident occurring at the end of the afternoon I spent in the studio of a prominent New Bedford artist. It hadn't entered my head that there were movies in the Town Hall at that time. I have also seen some of our fine local paintings in their old and new homes and have inquired of friends and relatives, a most fascinating way of informing myself about local art. I have interviewed various artists themselves.
Artists are the most graceful hosts and hostesses.
A paper could be written about each of such interviews and I hate to have to slip over these pleasant hours to the summary that you all expect. The artists of whom I speak have painted during a period of over a hundred years. The difference in the tone of press notices 25 years apart has drawn my attention to the unfairness of such procedure more than once. Wall was the son of an Englishman and was born in New Bedford in 1807. Early in his twenties he left his trade of clock and watchmaker to paint, having no master and preparing his canvases and even his brushes himself.