The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-12

were in rather well st UP
studio, tie wurSroom of a man whose
portraits are beginning to bring him
deserved recognition. Ills success is 81
recent. however. that he has not yet
got over the " nder Of It,
The light had gone had an hour be-
core. Logs were blazing crisply in the
fireplace the talk was low. smoke from
yipcs and cigars sought the ceiling.
Then came kaock at the studio door.
"I'u bet that's another one" said the
young artist host
lie uptoed lightly toward the door.
as II fearing the knocker might depart
unless caught unawarcs. Then suddenly
ne flung the door wide and stepped
back So that his companions saw girl.
like "A portrait in the doorway. She was
"A tritlc Disconnected.
ON" she said, tossing the word into
the still room as a fri ndly child drops
A pebble into a still pool of water The
seated men responded with smile. She
was charming with her red tam; Ter
checks were like wind rpened apples.
her chances witty words. The artist
waited attentive.
Her questions were the usual ones.
she wanted ID. The listeners leaned
forward eagerly as the artist questioned
her Finally he took her name and adj
dress and she went away. And the
last thing they saw through the slowly
closing door was her smile.
The artist sat down again. she
makes the seventh to-day"
Must bc interesting" said one Of the
guests. to have your door hcsieged
by pretty girls
perhaps. but one gets tired OF II.
For IL many of them are pretty. few OF
them are beautiful and fewer still are
really intelligent. And when one does
get u really good model she marries,
goes on the stage or just disappears in
the way models have
The last sentence summed mp more
than he had time to tell.
The best models are generally the
best known. hut any illustrator who
draws or paints the American girl type
will tell YOU that he il Always on the
lookout for the wonderful unknown.
Hut ne uses practically the same meth
DDS in seeking her that the editor in
search ~ the great American novelist
and the play producer in search of the
great American playwright use. In
other words he sits tight and waits.
There are professional models who
go from city to city, some of them hav-
ing "A months engagement booked
ahead in each place. They are the very
good mod Is 81 course, SO good that
they can make their engagements ahead.
In that way models circuit has been
evolved.
Dulcinc. who used to he in the chorus
but left because she found it such a
difficult life. meets Indne in Boston
and they exchange notes. Dulcine is
going South: two months in New York.
one in Philadelphia, one in Baltimore
and then two with an illustrator who
lives in Ashcville. Indine is travelling
West; her rou;e includes Buffalo, De
troit and Chicago one illustrator
wanted her to go to st. Louis, hut IL
was too big a jump and he would not
pay more than half her railroad are
The painter or illustrator who likes
to portray the mother and child fire.
uuently runs against snags in find
ing the right models. Perhaps his lot
Is the hardest of all 1t generally
happens that II the mother is the type
he wants the child is found lacking,
or vice versa. And no matter whether
ii is the mother or the child ne sub
stitutes for the right one, the child
finds itself I'm strange arms and fire.
quently refuses to pose.
In the old days before Charles Dana
Gibson turned his pen exclusively To
society stuff" he got models for his
character pictures from the streets.
He would leave his studio in New York,
take walk through "A poorer section
of the city and in ten minutes or 50
pick up several disable types. The shah
billy clad old men you used tn see in
his pictures the women with pinChed
faces and the thin children with big,
appealing eyes, he got most OF them
that way. Every morning the outer
room Of his studio would be filed with
people, models whom he had met on
the street and asked To call. He would
use one model an hour, then send him
away and use another
There is an illustrator who frequently
has use for boy model lie inserts
an advertisement in a newspaper. hoy
wanted, light work" The next morn
ing the hall outside his studio is
crowded with applicants. ON other ac-
casions, when this illustrator wants "A
lad in a hurry he will ring for IA mes
senger boy. 1t frequently happens.
however that the boy resents being
called from the serious business Of run
ming crrands to the trivial task Of
DOSING and considerable persuasion is
necessary before he becomes traCtable
ON several occasions messenger boys
have refused absolutely To pose and
have departed in disgust, generally
hinging over their shoulders the eX
pressive What yuh tink am?"
The old men who pose are most pic
turesque of all. There is one who is
famous in New York as a model for
good ST Nicholas His Jolly face az