The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03
Models and Wives


But II the outside world doesn't
realize the situation, artists families
DO, and. strange as it may seem 10
those good people who look askanes
at the occupation OF an artists model.
one never hears OF an artist in the
divorce court
A. very good story apropos Of this
feature OF the work is told Of the wife
OF z certain artist and his mother. The
little wife. new to the environment,
= visited her husbands studio one day.
: but returned dissolved in tears. She
poured forth her woe into the ears OF
the artists mother, saying that she had
fouRd a woman undressed in her hus-
bands studio.
well, rs cold day. and I hope
he had a good hre," composedly re-
marked. the elder woman
So perfectly do artists and their fam
flies agree on this subject that many
OF the former engage their models to
follow them 10 the country in the sum-
ner, and the wife OF one of New Yorks
most charming painters frequently has
as many as three or four under her
charge In the country during the sea-
son so all the work won't be inter
rupted. and the young women are not
..only taken in as members of the artists
family, but are treated with every
degree of consideration and kindness.
listed in the models book of the met
ropolitan artists. Nevertheless there is a
constant cry going UP about the scar
city of good models" The demand
. for them. exists always and the re-
turns 10 those with ability are most
satisfactory. II the model makes
good" at her first trial she will then
find no dinicUlty in earning from $50
TO $50 a week. But TO make good
there IS the rub The requirements,
however. are such that the majority
1all short Of the mark and are either
obliged TO shift along earning a mis-
cradle pittance or else go into other
lines.
The model book" OF the average art
ast is most interesting compound of
names, sketches. blue prints and what
not Against the name will be writ
ten the particular point for wpich she
Is noted accompanied by a photograph.
a blue print or else only a thumbnail
sketch. which TO the uninitiated means
nothing but 10 the artist everything.
Photograph posing is a new branch
OF. the models field which has developed
amazingly the last few years. Allied
with this IS posing for commercial
york; that is. for commercial special
Tea. which - how as much a part of
a-csazine advertising as the matter It
self
Ss both these branches there Is a
. great demand for pretty girls. The re-
enumeration. too, Is even greater than
81 earned by the artists models them
selves, for SO an hour IS charged for
Photographic posing. while an artists
model gets that for an entire sitting
n mornings or an afternoons work.
The reason for this lies Ia the fact
that a photographer I'm an hour can
secure q number Of poses. while an
artist will probably not DO more than
one.
Then. too, the requirements for pho
tographic work are far greater than for
painting Miss Longfelder is one of the
sew New York models adapted for both.
She has posed successfully alike for
photographers and painters. but her
beauty is exceptional, and then. too,
she possesses the most important re-
ouirement for tho former, that IL
youth
Youth is 90 essentially necessary in
Photographic work for the reason that.
while artists can idealize their sub
5ects and improve on nature, the cam
era never lies. and defects, even the
least obvious. are haunted triumphsntly