The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
BEAUTIFUL, WOMEN AS MODELS

| the child of a model and whose mother
| brought her to the studio when she was
baby.
This woman posed after she was
eighty four years of age, and her last
| pose in which she was depicted with a
pinch of shift in her extended hand
she posed for eight. hours daily, to the
wonder and admiration of the artist
world. There are no models here who
could maintain trying positions for so
great a length of time, so the local
artists say.
The models here cannot make liv-
ing at posing and so most of them earn
a livelihood in some other way and
pose only for what they can make as
extra money. Naturally they lack that
thorough knowledge of their art that
the European model possesses. Many
of these foreign models, so one of the
local artists asserts, who has spent
much time abroad, not only know all
about posing, but they have a good
knowledge of anatomy and can call the
muscles of the body by name. Ask
them to curve the arm or bend the
back so as to show the play of GER
tain muscle and they can do so without
a moments hesitation. -'+
1t st. Paul there are about ten Wom-
en- models and perhaps twenty men.
They get about 25 cents an hour for
costume posing and 35 cents for the
nude. Prices much higher than in
Munich, where there is a regular scale
of IL cents for the face, II cents for
the half nude and 20 cents for full nude
figure.
There are, however, so few artists
in st. Paul and Minneapolis painting
from figures that models may be said
to be plentiful, and though some are
good, one in Minneapolis being par
ticularly so. Gas good as any in Eu-
rope" said one artist, speaking of her.
There are others who are merely sort
of, makeshift, and who are stiff and
lacking in artistic feeling. This first
model, who bears a French name, all
the local artists agree poses with Won
derful life and spirit and with has
quick and delicate appreciation of the
artists conception.
St. Paul's Famous toId Man."
ST. Paul possesses one old man call
ed Hagemann, who is a delightful
model, says John Segal, the artist
who has frequently painted him. He
will maintain pose, however difficult,
for hours with only ten or fifteen
minutes .intermission at the end of
every hour, and his interest is in the
work. Often, his patrons say, he will
urge them to finish some particular
part and add as an inducements:
ooh, go on, and work all you cam
I'll not charge you anymore for that
He inspects the picture as it de-
velops and criticises and adrnires, MS
highest commentator being.
Eyes, it's good, it is exactly like me-,
The really great models in Europe,
often amuse artists with their airs and
assumption of knowledge, and they
will criticise with all the confidence of
a master. They like to boast, too, of
having sat for this or that great artist,
or of being the model used in certain
famous pictures.
Vast Difference. in Models.
There is a great distinction, too, be-
tween the models who sit for the
student classes and the models who sit
for artists. The first are often strong
and well developed, but not beautiful,
and they are frequently rough and IN
couth and are treated with little po-
likeness or tenderness by the masters
of the classes. But there are other.
models delicate, beautiful Werflen who
never pose for students, but only for
their own circle of artists. These
women live dfaintily, and even elegant
ly, and take the greatest care of their
bodies, spending almost as much time
upon them as the professional beauty,
massage, shampooing, manicuring, ety.
are the arts known to them and in con-
slant use to preserve the beauty that
is their stock in trade.
One of the greatest differences be-
tween the models in st. Paul and those
in Europe the artists complain, is
that those who pose for the nude cam
not get over a certain sense of shame,