Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-15
AUGUSTA BOYS SUCCESS.
What w. Herbert. Dunton is Doing in
the Wor;d of Art.

Augusta people will be interested in
| the forthcoming February number of
the Metropolitan Magazine. because of
the fact that the talented young artist
and writer. W. Herbert Dunton. form
e,ly Of this city, will furnish the
frontispiece. which will be printed in
| full color and reproduced from paint
| ing by him. to illustrate his prose poem
entitled "A Sea Tragedy" This from
| tispiece shows a great galleon of the
! 18th century engaged in a mid-sca
struggle with pirate ship. In speak
ing of the work the Metropolitan says:
More and more the men who draw
and paint are learning to portray with
the written word the pictures which
dance in their brains demanding tangi-
| bic eApression. The artist who aug
| ments his talent with the gift of words
is no longer an exceptional figure. IN
deed. the development of the literary
faculty is now thought to be Il needful
part IF the modern illustrators equip
lnent. To write ones own narrative
and illustrate it with ones own draw
inSS is Il lwU-fold accomplishment we'll
worth the trouble ii costs To be clever.
Hence this comment on the drawings
of w. Herbert Dunton accompanying
his prose poem Of an old-time Sea-tight
which will be one of the illustrated
features of the February Metropolitan
Magazine.
Mr.. DuntOn although young man
has achieved some things of worth. In
| time he should develop into Il big"
~ in l.t FL h.. In h1
healthy restivcness which belongs to
! the people who 10: the kind of folk
who are discomfort with petty works,
and reach out for the difficulties of
their trade whatever it be. Beginning
! in small manner and modcstly as be-
fits the student. Mr.. Dilnl".I is now in
way, after some five years of con-
Centrated effort. 10 stand among the
strong" men of present day magazine
Illustrators
He is frankly enamOrel of the past
and expresses himself most clearly on
subjects dealing with the picturesque
points of history. This is shown in
| the color composition he has done for
The metropolitan reproduced as the
frontlSpiere to our next (Fcbruary)
number. This picture representing a
mid-sea fight between a Spanish gal
leon and West Indian pirate craft
StirS the blood unaccountahly 1t
realizes all we believe such Il pictur-
csque encounter was and should be. 1t
comes up to our earliest ideals in the
same manner that Stevenson does in
his stories. The crash of belching
cannon. the ripping of short torn
canvas. the hOarse shouts OF victorious
pirates: the color. the stir, the move
| ment and thrill Of the scene are exactly
as W" have always mentally pictured
such affairs. II is not the least Bit
Theatre. but very real. very compelling
and altogether good.
AS an accompaniment to this and the
other drawings reproduced, Mr. Dunton
has written. (and in thorough harmony
with his pictures,) a little narrative of
this cld-time sea-battle The text is
done after the manner of an eye-wit-
ness and the reader scarcely realizes
| that this duel of high-prowed. we'll
| armed ships did not take place yester-
day. but three hundred and odd yes
terdayS ago. 1t is 4 creditable piece of
writing 10y one who processes not to he
| n writer. as the term is now gaugel
| and if the pen-picture stood minus its
| drawn and painted accompanimcnts il
would still call for q commentators
| word