Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-01-13
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a Very Realistic Artist.

l'O NOu-d dHtLI ito YOU ever PRINT Qny
art items in your paper asked rather
seedy looking man with long ha'~. slouch
hat, and paint on his fingers, softly edginx
into the Posts inner sanctum the other dal.
The managing editor glanced savagely up
from his noonday sandwich, and evidentlY
repres>ing desire to add the long-haired
party to his ylandS replied in the affirma-
tive.
because" continued the young man,
scoNI.ng critically at a cheap chrome on Inc
wall, because thought if you cared to re-
/ cord the progress Of real aesthetic art culture
on this coast you might send your art critic
around to my studio to take some notes"
Might. Ell ?" said the editor between
chew>
"Ies, sir For instance, there is a mann
moth winter storm landscape I've lust finish
ed for Nh. AIudd, the Bonanza king. IT.,
called a 'Hail-storm in tAe AdirondackS.
and a visitor VINO sat down near it the other
day caught a sore throat in less than fifteen
minutes, The illusion is so perfect. YOU
understand. WHY, had to put in the finish
ing touches with ulster and Arctic over
shoes oil
don't say.
Pact. sir and then tAsrc's little animal
gem did for Governor Glcrkins the Ether~
day portrait of his Scotch terrier SNAP.
The morning it was done eat got INTO the
studio and the minute it saw the picture it
went through the window like a ten inch
she'll"
Did, eh ."
Yes; and the oldest thing about it was
that when next looked at the canvas the
dogs hair was standing up all along his back
Il L
for that ?"
dunno"
ut just beats me. When the Governor
examined the work he insisted on my paint
ing on post with the dog chained to it.
SAID he didn't know what might happen"
Good scheme growlcd the President
maker.
Wasn't it, though. vi
ever j. vater views. You h
ley and how distracted
Well, George dropped in
brought up before an eight zz@sa....,
of the San joaquin River with boat in
the foreground I'm blessed if George
didn't absent -mindedly take off his coat and
step clear through the canvas irving to
jump into the boat-thought he'd 20 OUT
rowing, you know"
Have they carried out that iourneymap
with the smallpox? ?" said the editor, wink
ing at the foreman who had come in lust
then to swear for copy
SMALLPOX? That reminds me of
realistic historical subject I'm engaged on
now, entitled The Plague in Egypt. had
only completed four of the principal figures
when last Tuesday the janitor, who sleeps in
the next room, was taken out to the hospi-
tai with the most pronounced case of leprosy
you ever saw, and this morning the boy
who mixes the paints began to scale off like
slate roof. don't really know whether-to
keep on with the work or not Hs
it strike you?" =
ut strikes me that you'd bett>
said the unesthetic moulder Of
ion, grufy.
Don't care to send d
then ?"' @
No, sir
"Wouldn't like to give m
lifesized Gutenberg DISCOVERING z =
ing Press eh ?"
"Nary order" u
Don't want seven by nine group Or
staff done in oil or crayon?"
"No,' said the editor, as he again lowered
himself into the depths of a leader on the
Roum9nian imbro9olio, ''but if YOU care to
touch up two window frames, some desk
legs and the fighting editors black eve for
fOOr hits and a lOt of comic nycbap,a. ,.,,,