Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-09
MODELS FOR ARTISTS.
Some Interesting Details of a Not Widely
known Means Of Livelihood.

Some Interesting Details OF a Not widely
known Means Of Livelihood.
\. Y. Tribune.
A slight figure fitted in at tho door of
the academy OF design, the other day, and
disappeared into an inner room. She bad
a rosy face and bright eyes.
That is one Of our models, said the
professor, rolling his eyes at the door.
"A great change has taken place in pub
lie opinion concerning the use Of living
models" continued the professor willing
to talk. "Ten years ago there was an
outcry against it. People said it was
scandalous. Posing being new thing, it
was hard to get model Of either sex.
Now you can get hundreds, and engage
ments arc made weeks in advance ~
What pay do they gct?"
"When tho life class was first cstab,
lished we had to pay 81 80 an hour; now
the regular price is so cents an hour.
Models pose from twelve to twenty hours
a week. They are changed every two
weeks so as to give tho students change
Of subject. Men are better models than
women, as they arc less easily fatigued.' -
GLOW long does the model stand with
out resting %
"An inexperienced one only twenty
minutes at first. Stand in one position five
minutes without moving muscle and you
will get some idea of how tiresome it is. "
ado they show much embarrassment
SO much that the muscles are as rigid
rs iron. and they become drenched with
perspiratiOn. But after posing two or
three times the embarrassment wears off.
1t becomes merely routine business"
/" Do many make it a profcssiOn:'
"There arc several men who do moth
ing else. Tney pose here at the academy,
at the art students league and in private
studies. Most of our female models arc
young women who work in workshops and
factories. They receive small wages and
think it :, great piece OF fortune if the can
earn $40 y week extra by posing. They Ill
variably give fictitious names.
"Some curious bits Of romance have
como under my observation tho prOfes
sOr resumed after q pause, GA pretty
little brunette came in one day and asked
for an engagement. She was in straight
cncd circumstances, but did not disclose
her "iStory. She was SO sweet-tempcrcd
thu, BE became great avorite. | have
neve. zen anyone so ambitious to earn
.,:on.. She would pose eight hours a
day, /; made her grow pale with fatigue,
bu! she wouldn't give up. We'll, it turned
Git hat she was = married woman. She
belonged to good family in New Jersey,
and was nero girl when she married Il
Japanese, the son of an cX-ministcr from
Japan. The husband spent al his money,
was thrftless and earned nothing. She
had to keep him. She frequently posed
for artists in their studies. A richly
dressed woman came in one morning and
inquired for her. The model, she said,
was her niece.and sbo intended to make
her the heiress to her property if she
could be found. After two days search
the model was traced to a private studio,
where she was posing for an artist ard his
wife. This was the last heard Of tho pei
model.
"It is always the whip OF necessity that
drives people into posing. Ono day a
woman of refinement made an application.
She was handsomely dressed, wearing Il
sealslsin sacque and 4 silk dress. Hell
face was pale and carcworn, and she said
she had not had enough to cat. Her story
was that she had married we'll, her hus
band having an income Of $4,000 year.
When he died the fortune they possessed
took wings. She said she had tried copy.
ing and other methods Of earning a living,
but she had not met with success. Her
figure had always been admired for its
grace Of ontlin". Why should she not
pose?"
DO you have any boys for models ,"
Gone of the best subjects we have ever
had was q young boy. He had form
like Apollo. His father was 4 down town
banker. who was ruined by the panic OF
1878. This model, whom l met in the
- ~oA L., H.
position as q bank clerk. One Of Our
students posed last winter. He was from
Maine and had to depend entirely on his
earnings. This young man is one of the
most promising students i'll the academy
All kinds of people drift in-peoplc you
would never dream Of. One Of our hand.
soonest models is an itinerant Methodist
preacher. He has the form of gladia-
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