New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-03
DULCINEA IN THE STUDIO.
BY ROBERT j. WLDHACK.

Ducinea has been in my studio too often.
She likes the bohemian atmosphere. II is so
nice 10 be able to get away from conycntonallty.
she hates conventonality, but says you have to be
conventional or people won't understand.
Artists must live an ideal life. They can come
and go when they like, can't they? Harrison
Fisher is one Of our best artists, she thinks. She
has posed for some friends just for fun, you know
She has often thought she would like to take IN
drawing Everyone ought to be able TO draw some.
don't you think? She has a cousin who copies
Gibson wonderfully and really some of her things
arc better than the originals. She, her cousin,
says that her chief trouble is with the shading.
Dulclnea would prefer painting in water color, oil
IS so dirty and smelly.
She thinks there is more Arts-for- Arts sake, in
a way to magazine work, but supposes that there
must be lot of money in advertising pictures. The
pictures in the advertising section are really the
best in the magazines.
The men who draw those Mutt and JEFF pictures
must get lot of money-or do they? She asks
whether am acquainted with any Of them. How
old man is Howard Chandler Chrisy and where
does Goldberg get all his ideas? She supposes that
he sees funny things on the street or wherever be
goes Some of his ideas are awfuy crazy, aren't
they?
She supposeS Art Younss work is very good,
isn't it? But she can't say that she likes it. llcc
Father likes some of the covers on the saturday
Evening Post" but she simply dotes on Vogue
OF course most of the styles arc rather extreme
and they all seem TO be for receptions and things
hardly any for all round wear She sup
poses that an artist has to keep up with the styles
rfi hoV
their wives pose for them and thinks that the
wives would be jealous of the models. Lots Of
the Jokes i'm Life" are silly and that the covers
are not as good as they used TO be although she
doesn't see it very often. Do the editors give the
artists the ideas or do you have to get up your
own!
Every artist wants TO 60 10 Paris some day,
doesn't he: She never really saw an artist that
looked like the pictures i'm the comic papers, but
she met one not long ago that a kind-ofa
now freak He let his hair grow too long and he
looked, you know, sort of careless about his ap
pearancc
Sometime when I haven't anything else to do
she wants me TO make her sketch-yOu know
any little thing-just a quick sketch that won't
take any time. She doesn't care what the sub
ject is but she wants me to sign it, She will
have it framed.
She is sure she remembers seeing lot Of my
work, but she doesn't always notice the name. In
fact she never even remembers the name Of the
author of a magazine story unless it's somebody
like Chambers, or like that. Don't you know?
Well, she supposes artist has TO keep busy
the same as everybody else and she doesn't want
TO take up too much of my time, so goodbye
She'll drop in sometime again when she is in
the neighborhood, shopping, you know. She ex-
poets l bored by a good many people drop
ping in this way and hopes | didn't mind her
calling as she has had delightful time and
must hurry along. Goodbye, and if ever need a
model for something let her know. Better telc-
phone ahead of time so she can arrange TO come.
She wouldn't like to make a regular thing of it
exactly but thinks it must help an artist TO haze
model who understands just what he is trying
to do--goodbye
Awfully sorry to have to disturb me again but
c,o horL aN