The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-19
PLENTY OF MODELS.
The Hard Times Seem to Account for
Their Improvement as a Glass.
From the New York SIM

From the New York Sun.
The studios are disordered and dis
mantled and the artists are packing up
for an excursion in fresh pastures for the
summer-that is, many OF them are. The
truth is, however, that the season Just
ending has been a pretty dismal one to a
good many men who live by the brush,
and II 1t is not the wolf it is the landlord
who is lurking near their doors, and they
| dare not come out.
! But the hard times have brought one
compensation to the figure painters at
least, and that IS an abundance of fine
! models, and at reduced rates.
/ A distinguished painter, whose chosen
J field deals largely with the nude In art,
( remarked, in conversation the other day,
/ that the models In New York were never
! so numerous and never so well suited to
| the requirements as now. They are, he
said, both better dressed and better edu-
Gated than formerly, 50 that the ignorant
and somewhat vulgar types that formerly
| had to serve are no longer considered by
| the painters
| Ii is explained that lack of other EN-
ployment has driven many women of good
character TO posing for a livelihood, and
these girls come from all over the world,
The artist in question bad had one wo-
man from Australia, another who had
been trained in London studios. and
others from Canada and Pennsylvania
Many of these are novices, and nave
much to learn, for posing for the painter
. is not the childs play that it might ap-
pear to be. Some of them this winter
who have offered themselves for the head
and bust have had trying experiences in
/ bringing themselves by degrees to the
point of standing for the AL together, +"
as Trilby called it. But they have come
to 1t.
Anew field for the model has developed
within a very few years that has tended
to raise the quality of the models avail
able now. and that is in the work of the
( illustrator He must needs have women
of stylish figure aud apparel, such as set
of ball dress as low cut as possible to
the best effect; and many such types,
! with which the weekly and monthly illus
| tratod publications have made us all
| familiar, are recruited from the ranks of
/ society and from the stage. OF course, in
| the case of the woman of society. who is
| willing TO pose in costume it is
| largely a matter Of the qualification
/ OF personal vanity, but the work is too
/ hard to be alluriuR usually, and the &C
| tresses VINO consent to reveal their
charms of form for the painters assist
ance do so for the few dollars to be
| earned. And Ii is safe to say that the
money is well earned. A certain burly
| life saver on the New Jersey coast, after
| posing for two or three hours holding a
lantern over the supposed corpse of a
| young woman that the sea had given M,
admitted ruefully that he would rather
row big yawl ton miles in heavy sea
| than repeat the experience.
But while the number OF fairly good
models is unusually large, there is never
! an oversupply of the best figures so much
! desired by painters of the figure. A
| really fine model is apt to find her SER
! vices in demand among two or three
| artists for the whole season. Occasion
| ally woman of superior grace and adapt-
! ability, one with something Of an instinct
of the actress talent for throwing herself
into the spirit of the part she is posing
for, is discovered, and then every painter
who has the opportunity is sure to
get out his camera and preserve her clas-
sic ana romantic lines and expressions for
future use or reference. No painter of
consequence will paint from photographs,
however, when he can get the living