The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-21

Some Have Studied nParis-But Com missions of the Front Rank are Few and Better is Job Than an Empty Pocket.
 '.Far be it from me" remarked the fhief designer in big outdoor adver- Rising firm, ''to say that the pictures You see on walls and fences have esthe- sfc value. Yet some of them are paint Ed by men who have studied art under 'she best masters.
 Dangling on little scaffolds on sides l'f buildings, or plying the brush on she high fences around town, you may Have seen artists who have painted in Paris and have had pictures in the ex- Mibitions here in New York.
 # It is only at night and on Sundays Hnd holidays that they have opportu- #ties to paint as they want to. From VI o'clock i nthe morning till dark on Neck days they are engaged in splash color on walls and fences. They Ire victims, of course, of the tyranny f9 bread and butter, men whose efforts As high art are not appreciated by the ocer and the butcher.
 TIT spent some years studying art in Rris myself, and used to know a great hny of the boys over there. Here ley keep drifting in on me. Not a day ssses that does not bring me at least | se application for work from an ar |'ft. I have about 30 of them out paint signs, and there are at least as Any more doing the same sort of work |.8New York
 Mot all the men you see embellish- fences have wrestled with high art, icourse, but some of them have. One them was telling me the other day Ian amusing experience he had. This In studied a long time in Paris and b painted portraits of some New sfkers. But trip abroad caused him Hose his connections here, and he snd, on his return, that bills were hing in good deal faster than Fcks. To get over a stretch of rough slding he came to us. One morning Twas adorning fence with a DOT t which is the trademark for cer- brand of cigars. A young man who been watching the work really 5. You ought to study art
 Say, this work you're doing is not bad. It shows talent-it really 5. You ought to study art.
 Think SOP answered our man. III, to tell you the truth, I've been king of it.
 If I were you I'd do it right away jed the young man with enthus- I am studying art myself and W that it would be easy for you to into one of our parliamentary night ses. Here's my card. If you decide ake up art, and let me know I'll you all I can
 he young man left in a state of brd glow, have no doubt, as hav- done a, service to a fellow creature. is the kind of misunderstanding artists meet sometimes At first somewhat jarring to the artistic perament but they get used to it
 is rather hard however, to have picture pented with snowballs, as
 happens in the winter when your o is against a fence in the neigh
 
 hn who has been used to pouring t o'clock finds a little trying, at beginning, the change from a stu vith cosy corners in it to one on ing scaffold 100 feet or so up a
 Instead of lying in bed till or lock he must be up by starlight in Pr, and, instead of drawing com ble chair up to his work, he must
 if he is engaged on a wall, slide
 to it on a rope.
 oh things are abhorrent, of course, sensitive, artistic soul, and for reason many of the artists who
 to us for bread and butted have dropped No matter how high on their work may be, some of them so keen a feeling that the work heath them that they are useless hers who are clever with the
 fail because they can't catch the l knack of making sign paintings.
 man is engaged on a work of size on wall he can't step off quint at it every few minutes as
 uld in a studio. It is impossible
 his picture as a whole, but he
 know just how it appears from
 rect below.
 pth difficulty with some of our
 rs is the upwelling artistic in-
 that refuses to be kept down
 n signboard. Not long ago one
 men strayed far enough from
 o make a row of trees the back
 for the letters of his sign. The
 was artistic, but the proprietor of
 nmodity advertised saw it and at
 Pgistered kick.
 may be handsome he exclaimed,
 reat Scott, it's not trees l want