South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-04
CRITICS AMAZED AT
SPIRIT DRAWINGS
OF NEW YORK GIRL
Brush of Artists Guided by
Spirits of Masters"
She Declares.

NEW YORK. June 3.-The weird
paintings OF Flora Marion Spore.
Greenwich Village artist are being
watched with Amusement by artists
and Psychologists. UNSOLICITED in art
and frankly ignorant OF the element
airy principles of form and color com
position Miss Spore asserts that her
brush is guided by the spirits OF
the "old masters" Critics have been
startled by her extraordinary execu-
ton.
When she was asked in her little
studio, where. she says. the ghosts
OF greater and lesser painters Of all
time gather, for an explanation OF
the remarkable phenomena, Miss
Spore replied:
There are many Of them. They
work together, for over there is no
Jealousy nor disagreement. as here
peregrineur is enc, and a Chinese
master helps. Dore does all the de-
signing.
"A woman artist directs the lower
pictures. While we work she tells
me OF her own life she was rag
gcd and hungry and wretched a sac
rifico TO her art. She declared that
she is giving me in my happier sur
rouudinss the benefit of her toll"
Slender and Nervous.
Mss Spore was a slender. nervous
~ active little figure amid the big
canvases. She was clad i'm paint
spattered boomers and smock. and
her red hair, bobbed at the sides.
blazed against the darkening north
window like pennons of fame.
She spoke of her Scottish ancestry
and mentioned the tradition con-
corning the psychic propensity of the
Scottish people. From the time she
was a baby she has visioned coming
events in dreams, and other meta
physical experiences have come 70
her.
But 1t was not until three years
ago. when she was plunged into griet
at the death of her mother. that she
esta blished. as she puts it. communi-
cation with the spirit world
She then was the leading dentist
in a little Michigan city. with a
practice brinsing $4,000 yearly.
She continued:
IT began 10 experiment with the
ouiia board. u opened a new and
wonderful possibility 10 me I found
that those we love are NOT separated
from us by death. They remain all
about and bring TO us those who will
help us.
They soon asked II didn't wish
them to draw for me the beautiful
things they see. That was the be
ginning Of my career as an artist.
They call for brushes. dictate color
ings, lines-everything. 1 cannot put
their subjects on canvas fast enough
for them.
ct see no ruler. Yet various art
lists who have come here 10 see the
pictures say my perspective is perfect
and that color contrasts are startling
They tell me there is nothing the
least American about the paintings.
"They Are Eastern"
"They are eateru they say; ORR
eintaI. with occasional Chinese
touches. They are the ones who tell
mo which old masters they resemble.
You zee I don't know anything
about art. am not familiar with tho
famous old paintings. I never have
been 10 Europe even"
The paintings Miss Spore took
from their rack for me To see We're
fascinating and terrifying weird and
i'm spots horrible. They made me
feel as IL I were seeing something
in a dream.
There was a series Of pictures of
temples. each scarlet colored. with
turrets and domes of gold One,
which an expert has pronounced an
example of Siamese art showed a
hay forest background. a thing Of
green and purple shadows and
strange dreams.
At the side OF the temple flowed a
sluggish river. Almost might Won feel
the sywa u1pish breath of that river.
so atmospheric was IT, Sacred snakes
Of the country guarded the temple
door.