The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
Woman Painter Failed
to Find Any Beauties
Among African Women
~ MAUGEUY HEX.

l'N MANU- nv tklENs
written f.r irtsrnauousi Seea Service.
NsN YORK .-. beauty may draw
us with single hair. but Professor
starr ~ the tnivoruty OF Chicago,
iuH.sts that this hair. In order 70
bo,kou 90 him, must have "a kink
In u.
only iu Africa o. tho fatal GIT Dis
tlihutcd freely, Fnys the authority on
uUfh Ypp ory whose declaration that
American women are not honutitui
has met with prompt rrprisah ON
ha chicago campus ana elsewhere.
To tho deuiaia ana comments on
Professor starts diDtuu which have
been forthcoming from prominent
artists We ada tho opinion ~ wcll.
known woman portrait painter ana
globe trottrr. Mrs toru Clark Davis.
Mrs Davis may speak with Au-
thouty by reason not only OF hor
studies OF American typoH of women.
but also boy right of hor 'NtrnaiNn ra
plpratlpus into OBJ. parts of Afr 90
whore vomcu walk 'lu beauty. liE,
the night" according Co profcsHur
starr
Has Ncvcr Seen Beautiful Black.
Professor Starr might not con-
aidCr mo an authority said MrH.
luN, hut I have n,'u an uyor
north. south, east and west,
ir the usual places nnd lu tho remote
ones. ! have never seen any native
women that could houCEtly call
beautiful In thc Congo they are
poor tragic looking Things.
But in America we have grcat
deal oi hcautv our young women
have singular lovoilncss apart from
any consideration Of face or feature
II ~ that very fir look they all
have. the feeling OF power one senses
ia them.
"Our American woman is 30 we'll
dressed. 80 we'll shod. 80 well turned
out She is 20 right and straight
forward. she docs all things well
beauty Of today Is an intellirent
beauty our young woman is auaz-
iur.y oder than ~ the rest OF uH.
ana yet she seems a marvellous child
as she drives along, na So many girls
did during the war IA big eighty
horsepower car. guiding the ma
chine with her little hands. II Is
their sense OF power and achieve
mont that often lends beauty 10
those fine young creatures
"she IL neither ugly nor ar'if-
cial. Tho whole modern tendency Is
just a reaction from 80 years OF
Sitting Nio'orisnism All societies
go to those extremes. We ahail
swing back again 10 more staid
existence. These great liberties Of
today are not bad signs
we always had our fnc Ameri-
can type which Charles Dana Glib
! son portrayed People sometimes
say the are affects life. ana that
after this artist drew his types
women unconsciuusly or otherwise
followed them
Artist Only Pointed out Bcauty.
"But couldn't II be possible that,
instead OF az artist bringing about a
certain type. he really pointed out
the type TO rs, showed us beauty
that we hadn't seen before In Just
that way? For instance, in Jap
anesc prints we note certain things
! that interest us. They have beauty
| OF line, OF color ana OF tono. Then
/ ~ We go to Japan we discover these
! 5amo objccts and effects that The
| prints pointed out TO us II IL a
question whether they would look
that way II we had not come upon
tho prints first. Therefore ! be-
llove that artists teach US to see
types.
''The American girl would have
had this beauty anyway, hut ~ took
Gibson 10 come along and point Il
out to us.
During the war beauty became
very evident, The Uncle Sam type
OF man began 60 he seen the lean,
strong soldier sort--but without the
whiSkers OF course
"As to these Africans who live In
somewhat natural state--lf peo-
pla consider that boauty--you may
recall thai W. istler 'a!d nature was
most inartiVtic. ana that her sun
sets were often very poor.
"rhe Polynesiana outin the south 70
ern Pacific are considered heauti-
ful. but that ls not altogether what
has drawn artists there. Gauguln
went down to the islands because
/ he wanted freedom and cheap
| place 10 live. He tried to go back
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