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CHILD ARTIST 11
(NYT39) BINGHAMPTON -- Oct. 2, 2004 -- CHILD-ARTIST-REVIEW11 -- "Dinosaur" by 4-year-old Marla Olmstead from Binghamton, N.Y. Olmstead's whose splattery paintings have been selling for $6,000, is the latest child to raise the question: What is art? Her preferred medium is acrylic on canvas. She gives titles like ``Dinosaur'' to cheerful smears of blue and red with dark squiggles on top. Her break came at 3 when a family friend hung her art in a local coffee shop. Now collectors are lapping it up. (Bill Wingell/The New York Times)