The New York herald., 1921-06-29
ARTIST, WITHOUT $12
TOPAY CARRET RENT,
wins PRIX De ROME
Frank SchwarZ. War Hero,
Gets Word as Landlord
Serves Notice.
g YEARS FREE STUDY
Also Receives Award of Tiff
fany Foundation and
$1,000 a Year.
REUNITED WITH FATHER
Parted for Seven Years, Par
ent Finds Youth Through
Account Of Good Fortune.
REUNITED WITH FATHER
How often in fiction

a ceSpairlng young artlSt slts In MS
garret. His hopes have gone to smash.
He has been reduced to making the
rounds of the cafes Of the Quarter,
sketching with quick dashes Of char
coal the faces of gaping tourists for
such price as they would pay. Illness
has hampered even that way of max
ing living. The rent of the garret Is
nearly a month overdue, although it is
cnly $12. Maybe those who laughed
at his ambitions were right. Maybe
the thing to do is chuck it all and go
locking for job.
And then there is a knock at the
door-all this is fiction. of course-and
tho postman brings letter and the
sagging young artist opens the letter
and reads that he has won the prize
most coveted by art students-the
rrize which gives him three solid years
of study In Rome without a care in the
world. which sets him free alike from
the garret and the penny sketching
and guarantees him the future that
moment before seemed the sorry sub
stance of a vanished dream.
OFF to Celebrate.
In his delight he kicks over the one
chair In the room, throws his belongings
into a SCARED grip. rushes out to hug
the fine old janitress and is eff to the
country to celebrate. And no sooner Is
he gone than a little old man comes
knocking at the door OF the garret, and
It turns out on page 373, or in the last
100 feet Of the last reei. that the little
old man is the artists father and that
they have been lost to each other for
seven years, and that the father has
found the boy only to lose him once
more, but is sure that reunion is not far
OFF.
Fiction? The artist is Frank Schwarz.
who learned Monday he had won the
Prix de Rome of the American Academy
in Rome, giving him three years OF grad
| uate art study in Europe, with $1,000 n
year to pay for IL. On top OF that, ana
/ simuIta neously, that he has received an
award from the Tiffany Foundation. es-
tabl,shed by Louis c. Tiffany, TO neip
deserving students. and VIII nave ms
expenses paid while he studies for three
months DeIOre StliiHB' at ti'S SeNN'N -
1 the Foundation in oyster Bay.
/ The father part of the story comes
a little later. Schwarz has been living
for year In a one room and alcove
fiat at n rental of $12 month, on the
third floor of a house at 356 East Nine
tccnth street. The house Is one OF an
ancient row close to the clangor OF the
Second avenue elevated railroad. He
had been graduated from the Chicago
Art Institute. had tried his hand at
commercial art, and had chance at an
instructorship in an art school when the
war came along and he enlisted In the
camoufloge section. He served through
the war, emerged with broken health,
sketched while In the Shenandoah VAL
lev and tried to build himself up. came
back to New York and started doing
picture which should symbolize heroism
and be entered for the Prix de Rome
Had spent Last Cent.
For awhile he was a figure in the
cafes and tearooms and studios OF
Greenwich Village. He got along. as has
been said, by painting the portraits OF
summers. But as Herolsm took form In
his Imagination he dropped everything
else and worked on 1t steadily for four
months. Finally the work was sub
!
had managed with the rent before. but
for June he could not pay. not yet. The
landlord had favored him. but on Mon
day morning he was told. with the apollo
gies of the house. that he must move by
next Monday IL he hadn't the s12.
Modestly 'he told his story to re-
| porter who had come to see what man
ner OF youth on the East Side had won
tho splendid prize of the american
Academy. H., did not blame his army
experience for his spells OF bad health.
"Just tough luck" was all he said
! about that He told of the postman
coming with the news OF the award. and
a moment later he was on his way TO
Hempstaad, where a fellow artist had
offered him Job for the summer. At
this time SchwarE did not know that
his good fortune had come in pairs and
that he was to go to tho Tiffany Foun-
dalton Studio in oyster Bay.
VIII Send Landindy ai2.
Before departing Schwarz ran UP the
stairs to the dining room OF Mrs. Brown.
his Irish janitress. in the next building.
4 and said he would send her his address
from Hampstead and the s12 to the
agent as soon as he had u. Then he
scooted into a tailor shop next door and
shouted that luck was with him and that
the bill there would be paid too.
Half an hour later a reporter for THE
NEW YORK HERALD talked with Mrs.
Brown. II was equally obvious that he
had been "A good lodgcr and had won her
respect and that she had been almost rs
good as a mother to him. Hell pay:
never you worry about that she said.
To her he was a finely educated being,
too much so far the neighborhood. al
though she had no word against the
neighborhood II just mean that there
are different kinds of fish In the sea-
she said "and Mr.. Schwarz was differ
ent from the kind around here
The reporter went down TO tho street.
A voice on tho sidewalk behind him was
saying. Gentleman. gentleman"
The owner of the voice was little.
perspiring man with an honest. anxious
face. He could scarcely breathe for ex-
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