The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13

Men Who Make Cartoons and
Portraits for a Living Do Many
Clever Things with Pencil and
Brush for Love Of Their Art

parents. The greater part of his life up to
his twenty-fifth year was spent on a farm
in the prosperous Quaker settlement known
to the world Gray. Booth is, for the
most part. self-taught. Early, while yield
ing shovel and plow In hard toll, he became
an ardent student of nature, as one artistic
ally inclined would study nature, and a
lover of the poets, and all of his first earned
dollars were spent for books. Besides being
an artist, Booth writes some verse, al
though making pretensions in that line,
and his illustrated poems have occasionally
appeared in Chicago, Boston and New
York publications. His first sale, Thanks
giving poem, which was later republshed in
Boston with pen and ink decoration, was
TO the Indianapolis News. This was prev
ious to any training in a regular art school
and was followed by others, and being thus
encouraged he went to the Art Institute of
Chicago for a short time While there he
did some work for the then Chicago Rec
ord and the ID. c. Cook Publishing Com
pany. The following year he went to the
Art Students League, In New York, for
term In the day and night classes Since
then, for two years, he has worked sue
cessfully in New York and but recently
returned to remain a while in his home
State. Booth seems to have absorbed some
of the substantial character and conscien-
tiousness of the Quaker environments of
his early manhood, which now manifest
themselves In careful serious work
j. B. Gruelle, of the Star, was born Dec.
"a, 1850, in Illinois. Four years ago he be-
gan his newspaper work on the Indianapolis
a
that paper, he accepted an offer from the
Sun, remaining with them for nine months
He then took up the teaching of art at
the indianapolis Business College. He de-
voted one summer to studying landscape
from the tops of boxcars, and from another
excellent point of vantage which is ex-
tremely popular with a certain class Of
| tourists, namely. the brake beam. He then
took up commercial illustrating, but after
| a year decided to go back to newspaper
work, and for a second time became a mem
Der of the staff of the Sun. Later he spent
a year with the Peninsular Engraving Com
pany, of Detroit, but having preference
for his home city, returned and took posi-
ton on the Star. Mr.. Gruelle's work has
been extremely varied and he has not as
yet taken up any single line of illustrating.
w. f. Heitmann who is at the head Of
the art department of the Sentinel, began
his art work in 1895 as student in the old
Art School conducted by w. Forsyth. While
at this school he received an excellent offer
from the Indiana Illustrating Company,
which he accepted and held for about two
years. when he went to the News to do
general illustrative work and special as
signments. AT the time the Press was
started he accepted an offer from them and
remained with that paper until it was dis
continued. For the past two and a half
years he has been on the Sentinel Be
sides regular newspaper illustrating Mr.
Heitmann has done great deal of book
Illustrations for prominent publishers and
also magazine work. This work and also
pictures, which he has exhibited, have re-
ceived much favorable comment.
Another artist on the Sentinel is Roland
j. Scott, who Is one of the youngest of the
craft in Indianapolis. He studied with