The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
GUYING The VERY FINE ARTS.
FAKERS BEAT THE DRUM UNDER
OLD MASTERS NOSES.
uhe Old. or Aging, Masters Are showing
Real Pictures Downstairs OF Which
ThouEhtIess Youth Presents You With
Bunch OF Its Thoughts Upstairs.

Uhe Old. or Aging Masters are showing
Real Pictures Downstairs OF Which
T%houEhtless Youth Presents You With
n Bunch OF Its Thoughts Upstairs.
Tho studious calm of the American So
ciety of Engineers in West Fffty-seventh
street was disturbed again yesterday when
,he takers across the street broke out with
,he ffteenth annual slam of the'Art Students
Ieao,Ie. the slam of course being, as in
former years, at the expense of the pictures
hv the members of the Society OF American
Artists on exhibition downstairs.
The takers sell their fakes and the pro-
ooads 20 for scholarships which enable
,he takers to continue their studies long
enough to become great artists and join
The society so that in years to come they
osn mint pictures to be hung downstairs
and burlesoued upstairs. So it works out
IN a circle. or az the takers put II In their
catalogue:
Last wear we gave ten scholarships
ri,b the proceeds of the show. This year
we hone to give more. We dol those
nho are we'll to do in order to do for those
xbo ara unable to do what they would like
to do for themselves"
# wasn't the pictures that disturbed
tho engineers (unless they went aross the
.,reet 10 see them) but the goings on OF
rho art student bankers, dressed az clowns ,
out in front parading the sidewalk with a
bass drum and a bass horn, urging all the
world 10 come in and look. When the horn
rlayer and drummer got tired of blowing
and banging. the barker shouted a poem
raned Takers Fever" that could be heard
g.. far away "a Broadway. The poem was
ike this
sna, are the bpgies BLOWN for1"
said tho artist In the shade.
"Tu isrn you out, to turn you out"
ir. iIcin1icd fakeI said; .,.
said the artist In the shade ..
"l'm dreadln' what I've got to watch"
Was all the FaRcr said.
FOR They're hanging up the pictures
The, We faxed the artists paintings,
O., ,9 sls 'sf iEG,ns,s banging ,Rs Fak 'ss" and iSId thssy'n kill the
For the FAKE Shows going TO open In the morn
Ing.
-lrc We then as bad as that Isl"
said the artist In the shade.
Said the artist Ia the shade;
-Whcn Gabriel calls us SIX "
the TrenzIed faker said.
For the Fake show IT is open.
And the news has spread around;
They've nailed the artist tightly In MS conn on
Ava down in the gallery you can hardly hear a
For the Fakcrs' doings opened up this morning.
I'pstairs in the stair we'll there we're
three efigies Of the sure enough artists
suspended by the neck and surrounded by
lunches of carrots, beets and cabbage
The identity Of the effiGiee will not be dis,
closed until Thursday night, when they VIII
be auctioneed off with the pictures, the
posters and the fake statuary: Straight
show where the takers victim can have
almost ANYTHING done to him from having
his portrait painted in three minutes to
having his fortune told behind a screen.
The fake picture gallery is next to the
side 5. ow. But for the laymen to have
one-h,u.dredth part as much fun out OF
the affair as the art students are getting
he must first drop into the. serious snow
downstairs and see the things that are
Robert Harshe has won the first faker
prize this year with his burlesque on the
Portrait Of Four Brother" by Charles T.
Curran. A cotton wool dog appears IN IN
the centre of the. burlesque in place Of
the painted pet that Mr.. Curran's boys
have to play with.
John r. Carlson put a painted red dog
into the LAP. Of his burlesque PORTRAY OF q
prize. The picture is a takeof on William
n. ], Rice's portrait. There is no dog In
the original, but Mr.. Rice's gentleman Is
so reddish that Carlson threw in a YER
million pup for good measure.
George de Forest Brush has a picture
downstairs of a mother reading. to ,her
children. The faker who gets the thlre
prize has pictured a mother dosing mel
children with soothing syrup.
Lionel Straus, student. wins the pr1ze To-
the worst fake. his picture being a takeor
on Ben Ali Haggin's Young Woman In
BLACK Gown" The burlesque is NOR
realistic than the original because 1t y
crowned with real red hair. The prize i
s.. 2 cents and a mince pie. Straus, tn,
winner, stood at the entrance to the shoV
Yesterday. armed with a revolver, takini
tickets. -,
1 picture Of a woman downstairs LOOKING
at a locket and labelled "Locket: has ais
received attention from the takers, .onl!
their production is labelled Hook It,, an
the woman in the picture looks as II sh'
was broke.
Upstairs Susanna at the Bath gets
cake Of soap that Hugo BALM never 1T
tended she should have.
This is the first faker show since the Acao
envy and the Society men reunited. ina
event is represented by a picture OF Two COZ
pulent persons falling into each others arm
over a money bag. The bag IL ,marke
20. c." which, the takers explained mean
organized Graft"
Some ~pictures that are not burle sque
In paint get theirs in the takers catalogue
Bryson Burroughs's The Prodigal Son,
being listed as "'Blue Figs for PM People
by Some Horrors
The president OF the takers this yea
is ]. Paul Burnham; Neal A. Truslow
running the side show n Thomas hui
is looking after the costume dance WIZ
which the show will wind up on Friday ngh