Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12
LIBERTY BOND ARTISTS
MAKING MASTERPIECES
Nothing Cheap or Slap.Dab
About Noted Painters Por.
traits of Subscribers

A truly extraordinary exhibition Of work
marks the close of the first week during
which Philadelphia artists have been work.
ing at the Bellevue-Stratford for the Loan
drive.
The interest which was taken first in the
freak" side of the performance by the peo-
pie who came TO get q portrait sketch in
oils, or charcoal. in two hours and a half.
for a $4,000 or $4,000 subscription to the
Liberty Loan, soon changed into genuine
ainazement at the splendid quality of the
work done.
There will be n special exhibition of the
pictures at the end of the drive, and many
of them will he entered at the annual exit
btion of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts this winter. Several wel-known
critics have praised the work highly, Judging
II, not by the standard Of comparison be-
tween the work and the short time in which
the work was done. hut taking it at its in
trinsic value as artistic contribution.
Demands Increase
A still more satisfying recognition OF its
excellence has been the rapid increase in
demands for these swift and skillful sketches.
The greatest demands hayc been for por-
traits in oil, which, incidentally. represent
$4,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.
Few of the artists have been able TO keep
TO the steady strain of turning out "A por
trait a day. Leopold Scynert aud I.azar
Raditz alone have turned out eight portraits
apiece. and a display of their work. to be
seen now in the streets of the Latin Quarter
on top OF the Bellevue roof is well worth
trip. Both these artists have worked
steadily, with engagements piling ahead of
them at the same time keeping up the quail
ity of ,their work
Some OF the work done in black and white
by Walter Taylor, Albert Rosenthal and
others is very fine
Julian Story has offered to do a complete
This will be finished work and will. of course,
require much greater length of time.
Already Percy W. Chandler has put in his
order for one. Hugh Breckinrdge and Leo
pold Seyffert have made the same offer. ON
Tuesday Haskell Coffin is coming from New
YORK TO add his efforts to making the artists
contribution to the Liberty Loan a unique
chapter in the history Of Philadelphia.
Bust by Mckenzie
DR.. TAFT Mckenzie also has come forwa rd
| with an offer to do bust of any one who
| will sign for $4,000 to the fourth Liberty
Loan.
| Among the work which has been finished
| so far are portraits of Harry Thayer and
Miss Mabel Brce by Adolph Borie of Hora-
! ito Lloyds children, by Violet Oakley; of
| Edgar Church and Doctor MCMasters. in
charcoal, by Albert Rosenthal of Harrison
| kaner Lewis Ketterinus. Mrs. Carruth
John Il. Stetson. Sd, and Ellis Gimbel, by
| Lazar Raditz; of Mrs. Harry Thayer, Mrs
| w. w Curtin Mrs. Fred Brice Mrs. Caleb
| Fox and Mrs. Harrison Smith. by Leonard
| Seyffert drawings of Mrs. f. T. Chandler
! Jr Mrs. Anthony Gilmore and Archibald
| Eglin. by Josephine Strcatfield: Mrs Percy
| w. Chandler by Harry Rittenberg Miss Sue
Conway. by Alice Kent Stoddard
| Jessie Wilcox Smith has contributed some
charming studies of children. and Robert
| Susan one oil painting and a study in black
| and white.
SUBSCRIPTIONS amounting to not less thar
| $4,000 and $4,000 a day have been taken in
| since this remarkable colony began work il
| the most ingenious Latin Quarter extant
| Miss Eleanor Chandler, of the artists com
| mttee, said today that while she had set III,
| quota roughly at 81 600, 900, they were very
| hopeful of generous oversubscrption. Nor,
than 100000 had been taken in yesterday
| and there is still week to go.