The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-22
HARRISON FISHERS TYPE OF BEAUTY
MUST INDICATE CHARACTER, TOO
Harrison Fisher in the New York
American.)

Harrison Fisher in the New York
American)
While models vary. an artists ideal
never does. Mine has remained IN
changed since I first began to observe
feminine beauty I lave always be
ieved that strength and beauty may
appear equally in a wOman's face.
Every time I have drawn a woman s
face I have tried to show this. Every
model I have selected has been with
view to proving this theory. Every new
model I have sought as a step further
in proof of my claim.
A beautiful woman is. to my mind,
direct refutation of the old theory that
a woman may be pretty or she may be
of strong character. but she may not be
both. 1t has become my aim to con-
vince students of faces of human ma
ture and of art that this is fallacy
When, therefore, L saw the face Of
Miss Irene Howley in a crowded street
it arrested my attention at once. But
the etiquet of convention held me bound
Some artists have spoken to beautiful
girls they met on the street, and
begged them to pose for them. But
these artists were daring, as well as &c
centric. 7 never had any fancy for be
ing questioned by a grun police ser
geant about why I dared to speak to
this strange lady, siri' So 1 walked on.
I did not even yield to the temptation
of looking over my shoulder. But I
thought often of the face that had ap-
peared i'm the crowd and been lost in it,
even tried to draw it form memory.
To several persons I described the
face. with a faint hope that its owner
might be q model. No one knew her
At last, quite by chance, I met a friend
who that afternoon introduced me to
her. When the commonplace had been
spoken 7 startled her with ."Have you
ever posed2" She said NO" wonder
ingly Come to my studio" ] urged.
Bring your friend with you, and let
me make d sketch of your head"
They came, and / made studies of her.
I have engaged her for others. I shall
reproduce her face in many of next sea-
sons drawings.
Miss Irene Howley. who is a Brooklyn
girl, is 20 years old. What arrested my
attention when first ] saw her was the
union of beauty and strength in her
face. Strength is there, and beauty. but
neither dominates. Here was proof of
my beloved, long-contended-fO theory.
The Real Beauty of the Face.
This was my first impression. The
face at first baffied analysis, for beauty
of face is chiefly the beauty that is be-
hind that face, a something we loosely
classify as soul, but which perhaps is
personality. 1t is that which makes the
face different from any other, 1t is
what makes it distinctive.
Then I noticed that the ensemble was
very fine. That is one of the chief ele-
ments of beauty-that every feature
seems to belong to the rest-to be in
perfect harmony with them. The least
addition to the length Of the nose and
the exquisite balance of the face would
have been destroyed. 1t would have
made the upper lip too short and the
forehead too low. But there were no
such disparities.
What I first noticed analytically was
her nose. It is a beautiful nose, yet
strong, for at the middle there is a
slight rise. the feminized hump of
Roman nose ] have for a long time
been drawing the retrousse nose. It