Wichita eagle., 1888-06-01
In AN ART CENTER.
PAINTINGS THAT ARE NOT STEM
ClLED NOR DUPLICATED.
Scene In a Picture Factory Where Every
thing Is "Hand Painted "-How the
Quick Work.

| Quick Work.
Chicago has studios Of her own and artist
whose touch is as rapid as that Of Titan and
whose sense of color is controlled by unwa>
| ering confidence. They are not ashamed
either, to admit that they work for som.
| thing besides aesthetic appreciation Saio
the dean Of one studio:
eve are not here for high art; we are here
| for the money there is in it, and he jingled
! q pocketfu of coin in satisfied sort of way.
"Sometimes, however, people who buy our
| pictures get tired of them and hunt up some
thing better. So you see we have hand in
the art education of the country, though that
! is not what we are here for. Come in and
see the men work"
Two large floors are occupied, one for stor-
age of the finished pictures and the other for
the actual workshop. At the time of the
call five men and two boys were actively at
work in a way which would make an artist
who revered his work chew tube paints and
die.
ALL HAND PAINTED.
"Stenciingl No, never saw any stencil
ing done," said the proprietor, ''and never
heard of it outside of the newspapers.
SUcSS tHdt ID jdot u lSROl StOl1, LII Aa-b,
there is no need of anything of the sort. The
story about long row OF pictures being
placed against the wall and procession of
men filing down the line one putting in skies,
! another foreground, and SO forth, is .mere
newspaper fiction. They make their buck
eyes that way in the newspapers, but nowhere
else that / am aware of. Each man COM
merces and finishes his own pictures. Some
] a.. l. ..~A- A. -
that is all"
The workmen, or artists, as they prefer
to be called, 60 to work with all the abandon
and vigor of house painter working by the
job, not by the day He tosses one or two
canvases on the frame, souses a big house
painters brush in pail of kerosene to clean
1T, and starts by putting in the sky. There
are four or five tin pals Of sky color already
mixed As the brush he uses is four or five
inches wide, it takes from one to three min
utes TO put in the sky In doing this he dips
his brush into perhaps three or four different
pails, and blends the tints together with q
vigorous and deft series of strokes all OF
which looks much easier than il Is. Two or
three smart sweeps of the brush, which has
been dipped into slightly darker shade, and
the distant mountains are made. He then
steps back and looks at his work. Time Of
the first heat, four minutes and quarter
He comes up smiling, makes another draft
on the sky pals, waves his brush with a
horizontal swing, and placid lake mirrors
the misty mountains and summer sky. He
steps back again and looks at the work.
Time Of Last heat, forty-fse seconds.
QUICKER THAN CREATION
A ten second wait is followed by another
attack on the canvas. For palette he has
table, ON which are dozen little heaps of
paint, all mixed ready for use. There are
three or four tender greens and an essort-
ment Of browns and yellows, with here and
there pile of pure color. He stabs another
big brush into mixture of asphaltum and
burned sienna, which makes a warm, rich
brown, ead wildly smears it over the fore
ground, running up into the sky in spots
This is the dead color for the foliage and
rocks. Then he goes into bis corner to lock
at it again. Time of this heat, twenty -fv ve
seconds.
Stepping out, be tales large brush, the
bristles Of which are spread apart, each hair
standing out alone. One side Of this is
dipped into dark and the other into light
green. a slight touch Of this brush makes .
limb, two or three careless stabs create q tree,
brief spell OF ST. Visus' dance action with
it, and whole forest springs into existenca
He plays . sort of bass drum cbligato On the
canvas, occasionally replenishing his Jants
from the palette, and the picture has all the
foliage it can hold without running over
the sides Time Of this heat, three min
utss and q quarter. There 10 yet e broad az
panss Of brown foreground TO Be- covered
The artist picks up palette knife. scoops rp
q iittls paint here and tiaere and spreads is IN
picturesque angles over the lower corner of
the painting, bike boy spreading Jam on
piece of bread, and loi thsre are rocks enough
to start q stone quarry. Time Of the rock
heat, thirty seconds.
But the foliage b standing without sup-
port. A smaller brush Is picked out and
dipped into dark paint A succession Of
ierkv, upward movements and the tyxrky
and lnnbs Of the tree appear A sziIboak, q
half dozen birds Of asSoStsd sisa are al
painted in less time than IL takes 70 tell IT.
Time Of the last heat, 81 minutes Total
time, i5z minutes Ths painting is doze-
Chicago Inter Ocean
In . scotch Railway stasSeo.
1Eoene-Sootch railway station. T1cket
collector, IN making his collection. snds
an old geutlensa fumbling n his pockets
for his ticket Ticket Coileetor-Iickets
please, Old Geatleraan-In jast lookin
for it. Ticket Collector-Wel. II look
IN again In q few minutes See and have |
il ready then Ticket collector returns !
shortly; bat the old gcuties.aa Is still |
hunting fer IL Ticket Collector (sudderlyl /
Why you have il In your meath. Eaanl I
Old Gent le.uan fgiyilx him the ticket -
Oh. SO | hse! Here you are, Another
moves On, 70 first gsatlenan-lra afraid /
you re losius your rser,ory, SIR. Old Gea-
fear o. thss nae fear o ths:l
TIE ticket was fo,rieht suid. and ] wis I
list sookin' the date adtl TsA;eaa-Ths 1
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