Smyrna times., 1909-11-10
KENTON BOY NOTED ARTIST
Stanley Massey Arthurs Son of the Late
j. M. Arthurs the Subject of a
Sketch in the Wilmington Star.

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j. M. Arthurs the Subject of
Sketch in the Wilmington Star.
Stanley Massey Arthurs is the only
Delaware boy in the little COLONY of
artists who have chosen Wilmington
for their home, says the Wilmington
Sunday Star in its sketch of Will
mingtOn's colony of artists. Of the
thirty or forty artists who are assoc
lated with what is popularity known
as the school of Howard Pyle artists,
many are from New England and the
West, but of all the number onlv
one, Stanley Arthurs was born and
reared in the Diamond State. Mr..
Arthurs was born at Kenton, Della
ware, on November 27, 1877, the
eldest son of the late Johsua N. and
Mrs. Nancy (Wright) Arthurs. His
bOyhood was spent in the little village.
He attended the public schools in
Kenton and later on in Middletown.
Beyond the crude sketches that are
more or less a part of every BOYS
school days, Mr.. Arthurs showed no
particular attraction toward the field
of art until his seventeenth or eigh-
teenth year. In 1898, however he had
become sufficiently interested in
drawing and painting to desire to
take up the course of illustration in
the DreXel Institute of Philadelphia
and the necessary arrangements were
made. The director of the school of
! illustration at Drexel at that time
was Howard Pyle, and Mr.. Arthurs
came directly under his influence.
Accepted Place With Upward Pyle
His work while at the school was of
such a character that in 1901 when
Mr.. Pyle decided to give up his art
instruction at Drexel and exert his
influence gratuitously upon those few
students only whose work was pro-
crossing satisfactorily, he admitted
Mr. Arthurs to place in his little
school. Ever since his coming to
Wilmington at the beginning of the
Pyle art school, Mr.. Arthurs has con-
tinued his connection with the artists
colony, and he finds Wilmington so
satisfactory for his work that he has
made his permanent home here. Mr..
Arthurs, like the majority of the
members of the colony did consider
able commercial work while studying,
his first paid illustrations being a
series made for use in an almanac.
, 1t was not long, however, before he
: began to do work for the weeklies
and monthlies, his first important
work, "The First Thanksgiving Pro-
clamation, appearing in Harper's
! Weekly, in November, 1899. Besides
! work for the latter paper, Mr.. Ar
: thurs has done many paintings fot
! St. Nicholas Scribner's Mcclure s
r Century, Harper's, Success and Th'
: Saturday Evening Post. Much o
t this work has been reproduced il
j colors. Not only in this countr.
i has the young artists work attracte
n attention, but it has received favor
able comment from one of the leading
international societies of artists i
Paris. In this country Mr.. Arthur
9 is connected with the Society of Illus
t traitors, and the Salmagundi Club
r cf New York and the Franklin In
It Club, of Philadelphia.
One of Arthurs' Best Known Painting
l. One of the best known and Walt
/, able paintings by Stanley M. Arthur
! is his Crossing of the Ways, whic
:. was hung at the water color exhib
d of the Academy of Fine Arts in Phi
RS adelphia last winter. This canva:
'e shows the encounter of an old foul
}. horse stagecoach with the first trai
IS drawn by a locomotive. The subje'
a is carefully worked up in every d'
le tail, being one of a series of pain
r ings on the early stagecoach life
s. entitled "The Old Boston Post Road
ID for which Mr.. Arthurs did consider
e able work of preparation. The pain
e. ing was purchased by Mr.. George
ne Hetelz, of Ridley Park. Conside
r. able of Mr.. Arthurs' work consis
IN of subject pictures or paintings
ad more lasting value than the illustr
e. tions for the current publication
lie These subject pictures frequent
in take the form of series, and a
he almost always done in color. M
er Arthurs has his studio at Shallcro
avenue and Rodney street, in Il
building which Mr.. Samuel Bancro
built for use by artists who hi
D decided to remain permanently