The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-28
SENTIMENTAL BEINGS
MALE ARTISTS ARE MIGHTY QUEER
FELLOWS WHEN SINGLE.


The Painter Of Figure. Is naturally Hn-
mantle and ve,y I:,.l, and very Read.
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Very few of our younger artists are
married, but itmay ho accepted as a fact
that they all want tu he. Cupid finds M
mark so tempting to his shaft rs that
presented by painter at his easel
Studio life and sentiment are almost
synonymous terms. Why thi, .iould
be so is easily explained. tn artists life
is almost invariably q lonely one. No
matter how sociahlo his temperament
may he. his working hours are generally
spent in silence and seclusiou. Being
essentially of % sensitive nature he longs
for such sympathy as women alone can
give. The failure Of a picture ur us
complete success are matters ,lgt rO
quire more coincidence or congrauistjou
than can he expressed by brother
painter. The kindliest of neighburS cam
not 90 further than To say: Look here.
old fellow, am awful sorry that thct
y
my It's u bcastly shame. That's what
| callit. Or: by ,jove, old man. you're
in luck. know lots of fellows with "a
big name who have been working for
year back TO catch the Shaw or Evans
prize, and yen got it away from 'em all.
But you always were IA lucky dog
y woman does these things better.
That is the reason he wants TO marry
her. The painter is naturally romantic
In his opinion girlhood is always an
gelic. lie may have individual pref
erenco for blonds or bruncttes. for little
or tall or intellectual or wonanly wom-
en-, but the entire sex is still beautiful
to him, not perhaps in its physical fea-
lures, but in its mental possibilities.
Hence he is always IN love and restrained
from matrimony only by the difficulty
of supporting two people on an income
that is barely sufficient for one. To be
IN artist you must be an idcalist. stu
dio life has extraordinary viciSsiiudcs at
times. hut it is always made up more or
less Of visionary elements. Occasionally
the artists dreams turn intonightmares
and he has very bad quarter of an
him he mopes for short period and pro-
ceeds to fall in love with new charmer.
Last spring two young men. one ~
painter, his companion II sculptor. We're
joint occupants Of studio in New
York. These departments Of art TO not
always agree, inasinuch as the dust and
dirt of a sculptor's modelling platform in-
terfere considerably with the purity of
portrait makers paints. But neither of
the Young fellows was rich, and by club
bing together they managed to pay the
rent of larger studio than they could
have had sewrItely Tho sculptor made
as little dust as possible aud kept it well
down by frequently using u water
sprinkler. Not to be belindhand in
courtesy, the painterwas patient, and by
keeping II sheet Of drapery in constant
readiness was enabled instantly 10 cover
/ his canvas when his cumradc unavoid-
ably threw ont Il cloud of powdered
plaster of paris. They were comrades
/ in every sense of tho word. aud had a
union Of pocketbookS as we'll as of svin-
pathies. On one occasion the sculptor
was 50 bard mp ON the final receipt of u
commission for large statue that he
was unable to buy the clay necessary for
{ his model whercupon the painter de-
MED himself cigars. took to pipe and
/ by this economy got enough money to
pav for the necessary materials.
some time aftcrward the artist re-
ccivcd an important order and had not
the wherewithal 10 purchase the large
canvas essential for its execution. The
SCULPTOR said nothing. but putting on
his street coat went ont fora walk. An
hour lstrr he came back accompanied
bv n buv. and between them they car
ripd n canvas nyalve feet long hv six
wide. [, was n windy dav. aud the
SCULPTOR was quite exhausted 10y the
effort of getting his uurulv burden past
pusty corners. But after "a few minutes
breathing su,ll the two friends en-
braced cag,I other alfectionatelv anI
went 10 work in thcirrespective corners
So ideal "A friendship as this ought to
have lasted throughout a lifetime But
an event happened which changed
the current of amiability in the studio
and estrausrl the two Young men so
that at present they are not even nod
ding acauaintances.
One dav the PAINTER received an order
for sketch of man in arnor. The
SCULPTOR readily consented To pose for
his F,ienl and after some effort finally