The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-13

do not mean to say that l actually make
up the stories that underlie the pictures in
all cases, but the letter press that accom-
panies them is always mine. In most cases,
doubtless, it is really my invention. Often
times, however friend will call and say
George l heard thus and thus at such and
such place, and if it strikes me as funny
| use 1t. Frankly. it is terrible task
| sometimes, to get up the picture and the
! fun which is required for the weekly Punch,
and get perfectly wild over it; l walk up
and down the ROOM tear my hair, don't
know what in the world L shall draw, and
at the very last moment, quite likely when
the printers are waiting for copy, either
find suggestion in my own brain or some
happy friend drops in and gives me the
suggestion"
'"There was a writer here to see me
some time ago." continued the genial artist,
''and he asked me what sort Of characters
| liked best to draw. | said bishops and
ttunkeys. He was bit shocked, l think,
but he asked me the reason of this weak
ness of mine for footmen and bishops, and
calmly replied, Their calves, my friend
He seemed somewhat mystifed. | really
believe he thought was joking"
If you have noticed the ponderous calves
that Du Maurier attaches to the legs OF his
bishops and footmen you will appreciate
his reply to the newspaper man.
Then the conversation drifted to illusura-
tions in American magazines and journals
as compared with the same work in Eng
land.
american illustration strikes me very
favorably,h said PuncHS master hand. "Of
course, the political cartoons in PUCK or
Judge, and other OF your celebrated illus
trated journals, do not appeal to me
strongly, because do not understand your
politics, but they seem to be very well done,
and the art OF printing in Colors has GER
tainly been brought to a very high state in
the American publications. When it comes
to black and white drawings, however, 1
think that we are fully abreast of the
American artists if not a bit ahead. There
is man who has recently died, Mr..
: Charles keene, who was superb in his
work and whom 1t would be impossible to
surpsss. The father of all black and white
work. as you might say, was Mcneil, of
Berlin. 1t was from him that we all took
our models and our education, and for
that matter, 1t ought to be understood that
, the drawing of modern artists has come to
be a careful study from actual models.
Thirty years ago illustrators used to draw
from their imaginations wholly.
THEY USED NO MODELS.
They drew what they saw in their own
Z minds. Nowadays we are more particular
and the model i'll the illustrators studio has
come to be quite as distinct and necessary
r a feature as he or she is in painters
= studio"
Then he talked of his coming novel.
Y YES" he said, 81 am going to publish
|, another one The Harpers were kind
E enough to accept and publish my first eff
e fort and l am going to try again. Whether
q l write any more after that will depend al
9 most entirely upon the appreciation which
this work may meet. If l find that the
!. reading public cares for my stories | shall
. write many more, for have vast amount
n OF material which seems to me should b(
n interesting, but if l don't find that they
I like my style or the material 1 have to pre-
t. sent shall drop 1t and continue to worl
d solely as an illustrator. | like your Mr.
> Abbey very much, by the way, The con
r tinued, ''he is q most excellent artist, ant
J. the manner in which Hdrper'S the Centltr
v and the Scribner's Magazine bring out pic
n lures in black and white is worthy of al
o admiratlon.''
10 Du Maurier is of the opinion that tn
A. newspaper of the future will be an illus
q trated journal.
h. Newspaper illustration is still YER
s crude,' he said. Rough paper and hast
le press work lead to results that cannot b
IS satisfactory to the artist himself. But
,e regard that manner of Illustration as bein
g. in its infancy. With our present appliance
we cannst hope to get the best results froI
"a newspaper printing, though l am perfect
convinced that American genius, If nc
le English, will some day complete process
by which the finest art work may be repre-
duced in black and white in daily publ
cation. 1t will certainly come. With
n, twenty years we shall see, in the dali
It. press, as excellent pictures as we now hav
in the weeklies. What the process will /
e. l don't pretend to say or suggest, but il
ne vention is rapid in this age, and SON
method will be brought to perfection b
is which the fine lines o. pen and ink wor
may be reproduced satisfactorily on quiC
e. press"
st So the artist chatted on in his easy, grac
lis full way In some way the matter of rep
tation came up.
is There isn't so much in fame at times
said the humorist with laugh.
", ''Some time ago at friends house w
ng selected to take lady In to dinner. 81
1t had not caught my name. l told her it w
ng Du Maurier. 'Du Maurier, the artist
a said.
gu "toh, indeed, she said, 4 paint lit
nq myself
a II sometimes do pictures for Punch, y
Iso said.
all "'Dear me, was the crushing reply.
wonder if know any of them. l wond
he if you did not do a picture of scene
He Hampstead once!n
JUS .There," said the artist with snoth
nd outbreak of laughing, there was fame
your @sN
M The sun had set behind the steeples
err Harrow before Du Maurer conducted
Ote to the threshold of his hospitable home.
we were passing out he pointed to a lar
me- frame in the hallway in which were gat