The sun., 1893-04-11
C. D. GIBSON'S NEW MODEL.
IMPOSING, NOT POSING, WAS HEN
LINE OF BUSINESS.

VIII ~. Low-Arer Awhile she Wa.
Detected ss n Reporter IN Search ofa story
on How Artists Treat Their Models"
The signature OF G. D. Gibson. the artist. is
as familiar to readers OF the magazines and
weeklies as his face is to his own circle Of
friends. He makes q speciality OF society car
toons. and has made q hit with them. Mr.
| Gibson Is a tail. athletic young man. smooth
| shaven.
His studio 10 on the top floor OF tho Alpine.
| at Thirty third street and Broadway. He is a
| successful artist and is continually busy. He
! had IN experience yesterday morning which
| he will probably never forget. and which In
terested intensely q party Of friends who
dined with him ut the Players Club
last evening. At times the recountine
| Of the experience produced merriment. but
| there were other times when the party sympa-
thized heartily in the wrath OF the narrator.
Two Of his guests were artists. and fully able
to appreciate the story.
About q week ago" said Mr. Gibson. "a
| good-looking young woman called at my stu
| dio and asked for work a odel / was very
busy at the time. and satisfied myself as to
her ability by Just putting few questions.
She reassured me. however. by saying that she
had posed as an angel for Low. looked over
my calendar. and having u vacant m orning for
| to-day told her to come around. There wns
l
think that she was novice. or even that she
was anything other than professional model.
| Now can recal! her attempts to appear cap
tivating. She was we'll dressed. wore q hlue
ulster with q series Of capes. and very be-
coming hat
| We'll. give you my word. never gave her
another thought until she appeared at the
studio this morning. After greeting her !
! pointed to ball dress which generally use.
| I'D od oolf f,r , ND in
| another part OF the house. Thought 1t strange
to hear her ask. Just as ! was leaving the
studio what she should do. My suspicious
| were not really aroused. however.
Why said. lust take OF your ulster
and put on that dress When returned she
had donned the dress She had tho waist on
wrong. 1t laces In the back. and she had
1t laced in front. I told her OF the
mistake. and said that would lace it She
| utes had shifted the waist around. Without
socss hst % wss tUo sho It ssG
her She Daf ad tss Rse
The last. dress suited. and she took the
stand. My study was q womnn arranging her
%th sep Sands paced tshnd her sse Ses R0'f
e5essty yeosa s%PSs PSsro Ssa ens 'dr am
work. and had been busy for ten minutes or
+ ?% %AiR tped Of shia pose and sank in,e ehslr
ss VII sss1 FL hosI
continued. and then she made an observation
yEhhii yEhich .ss caused doubt to arise in my mind.
reGi !! reminds IN me 81 The The days when was a
"oi Course i il natural Tor artist and model
but Ta sSs II her
| and had allowed her eyelts to droop IN
s: !fss S$i :siHss s; 8
ana at'Sss :sInfa had tpss
SosSs F woman s @ sRS 5osneeiS sss.a ios @ %s and
had had since married: She he'd her hustand
n s, carried saa II teS .Ss% s.%
ToSSs %Ss ssS ts $ssd sSs
sSa E had Rsod op s. nas
to buy BABY carriage. tod them oi a manu-:
Then my model. dressed in her street
shous6t flashed 5 through ny mind thS. ths
s6s appeassd Heryons and SAID va nsys5
pose pat m mSnicinns ware cnrraet ona ao
tFSSntHtns tSa Hsd h0r. said; You are doing this for
"she became confused at the question put
bl@aEE%tsSS @E%Sy oHs; tso wor,ay
newspsper in the % city that would resort s Snto 70
fash psTas %ss"Ha nises assl
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eonversation: 0r dilate upon the Incident
nSs @ Sad hsSs Sssss fst ihss ife
She replied that shs was Working n
slS sitfd na9 hat e'd 1ss tass fSsnt mos!
that she no had orsd
Bst sO ID ss' Ok
me, and she wc2t away"
had not struck him iorcibly at the time Of thsir
occurrence. hut which might have told him
around the, studio He thinks that shs expect,
hung with tapestries, and adorned with armor
and things. She had not got elimpse OF the
Clinton.
After she had been detected she asked Mr.
Gibson to tell her som ethlng about his modea
He told her that one woman had been
four years; that he had the highest respect for
them and that no believed they were in much
better business than she was
As viewed from the standpoint Of the artists
present the whole c9ntrivance was pretty low
entertaining the bourgeois" idea Of the
studio. II an artist can say ANYTHING more
contemptuous than that he wants time to
think first
A Sun reporter sought Mr.. VIII II. Low to
learn II 1t was true that Miss Clinton had
posed as nn angel for him. and to what other
artists she had referred him. but It was too
late to find Mr.. Low.
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