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“The newcomer, Herr J. Rubens, the lightning painter, is the novelty. Herr Rubens contends that he is a Munich academician, and he certainly handles a brush as if he knew his business. On a large canvas, in a frame, he begins with large smears of color, laid on as if he were whitewashing. Then swiftly, and withal with much art, he converts his canvas into winter landscape. Immediately following, [he] […] depicts a summer scene, with the same skill and speed.”
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Los Angeles Times, September 15 1909