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A Square of Canvas
Anthony M. Rud · 1923
A young visitor to a New York asylum hears Hal Pemberton, a once-celebrated painter living under an alias, defend the terrible method behind his art. Anthony M. Rud's Weird Tales miniature turns artistic genius, cruelty and self-deception into a cold gothic confession.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 23 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Canvas Trail
Fountain BenchThe safe distance between visitor and patient.
The Asylum Frame
Anthony M. Rud
Jackson, Pemberton's Father, Mortenson and the Daughter
The Guard and the Servants
The Bench Beyond the Fountain MistThe visitor keeps distance while the old painter offers his version of sanity.
Guarneresi Before the EaselThe master finds a pupil exhausted beside a picture he cannot deny.
This edition
- Title
- A Square of Canvas
- Author
- Anthony M. Rud
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 47 original artworks · 23 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 6,163 words
- Reading time
- 25 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #69606
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