The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-13
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STILL A PRODIGY
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Paintings Of Wonder
 Girl Have Improved With Years

normal, way; of growing up into men and women, With maturity they are apt more often than not. to sink into No such thing is- happening to Pam ella Bianco. Unlike some others. whose art diesfoafe with adolescence, she has kept on developing. Her art has grown from the work of an extraordinary child genius to the thoughtful express sionof mature artist. So her exli- bition at sKnoedlcr's galleries in New York need no longer be prefaced as the work of rra child prodigy. It is ready to be judged on its merits alone, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
 ssA f rConqueror" At f2
 It was in London in 1919, when Pamela was 12 years old, that she held her firstsexhibitiop, which brought the artistic world to her feet. How it came about was this way:
 Pamela is the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, both of them with distinct artistic and liter ary gifts.w Pamela. has always drawn, as many children do, the fantastic and whimsical illustration of her childish imaginings;. but with a technique and execution very different from. that of the average. child.
 Captain, Bianco was always aware of Palmea's gift. When an exhibition of childrenfs work was held in Turin he sent some of. her drawings to it. They Immediately made such an impression upon critics that Captain Bianco was prevailed npon to give an> exhibition of her work in London. It was the sensa- tion of the season. Artists, authors, collectors and museums bought her
 work. a.~sexs
 Bib Artists Toss Coin The story dis told that when only one picture was left of Sir John .Itayery and William. Nicholson, both painters of international, repute. tossed to see who should have the privilege of buying it. John Galsworthy wrote to Capiain Bianco, begging him to exercise the greatest care. in not allowing her talent to be forced "She must go on,' he said, discovering beauty in a simple way"
 An artistic sensation :. such. as this was bound to arouse the curiosity of collector and dealers on this side of the water Through Mitchell Kennerly, the publisher, Pamela and her father and mother went to New York, where she held her first exhibition at the Andar- son galleries. The London sensatfaa was repeated. Pamela, lovely dark eyed little girl, was shy and a little amused at the excitement her simple drawings were causing.
 Since 1920 she has, exhibited in other American. cities, but her exhi D Hion which opened recently is the first one to have been field iii New York city since her first appearance there.
 sssGchO0l" At Home
 Looking at Pamela you realize at once that she is not quite like girls of her own age; that she has something that sets, her aparA Her education. alone, would make her different, since her parentsss appreciating her artistid gifts, have never sent her to school, but have kept her at home, teaching her themselves and giving her plenty oq books to read. Always they have all lowed her all the time she wanted toI paint and draw:
 q haven't any special ideas aboud my work,n she said the other day. n just paint. Sometimes what l think about. sometimes things see through inv window, and sometimes portraitsI and still lffes. Of course, do otherI things beside; paint, but then would rather paint than do anything else in the worldn w D
 Pamela is. part, of the movement, which is the term used by painters fo1 artists who are modernistic in thei1 tendencies. Although she has neyeT' studied or seem the works of Picasso on Derain, it. is. almost as if she had beeri taught by them There is s0mething about her form, her use of line that rel minds one at once of the Italian primii i lives. Biology teaches that the childI repeats in his or her development tneI history of the race. So Pamela, JusY emerging from her own, childhood, ret peats in ,her painting the childhood o1 her country's1 art.