The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
JuLian Lamar, Well Known Portrait Painter, Visitor Brilliant Work of southerner Praised by Critics Every
 where
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Among the distinguished visitors to Birmingham during the past week has been Julian Lamar. the noted portrait painter, whose work has been exhibited in all the great gall 1eries of the world and whose color full original style has made for him a place in the world of art envled by older and much more experienced artists.
 Mr. Lamar and his lovely wife (Lucy Armes), have been the guests for a few days of Mrs Lamar's brother, MT. Edmund c. Armes, and Mrs Armes. and they have been the recipients of many delightful cour- tesies during their only too brief stay here.
 Mir. Lamar Is a southerner of whom all southerners are proud. Georgian by birth, his father, MT. Frank Har- vey Miller, editor and owner of the Montgomery Journal being one of the leading newspaper men in the south, the young artists rise to fame ltas been meteoric, but at the same time based upon a foundation which is firm and solid.
 Down in sunny Georgia some twenty odd years ago a little, boy scratched in the white sands of his native hills crude drawings of loco motives, and somebody said: Here is a future engineer" Later, he filled his school books with sketches of the life about him, and people began to recognize that 1t was not engi- neering. but art for which the child was destined. Particularly did a wise and loving mother, who had possessed the gift herself and so found a second awakening of inspiration in develop ing the talents of her son.
 Despite his strong artistic bent Mir. Lamar could never forego a longing for military education and soldierly experiences so, after finishing his two years at the Academy of Fine Arts, he secured an appointment to West Point in 1913, and, despite the advertised irreoonciladility of artistic temperament and discipline. he made fine record at the Point, served as Cadet Captain and was graduated year ahead of his class.
 Despite the fact that Whistler once attended the Point. Mir. Lamar en- joyed the distinction of being the only cadet who ever attended the Academy to paint two portraits of it's officers during his cadet career. His portraits of Col. Samuel Tillman, superintendent of the school, and of Col. Cornelius Wilcox, may still be seen at West Point. Two cadet por- traits were also finished there, one of which is now in the possession of Mrs. Delmonico. of New York city.
 In the year of his graduation, 1918, his country stood more In need of military men than of artists. and his career led to France again, for far i different purposes than those which had taken him to Paris in his art stu dent days. He was attached to the goth Infantry, General Woods divi- sion, and sent abroad ahead of his division with the advanced school de- tachment.
 Vastly different in coloring, concep- tion and treatment from his formal portraits are his sketches of the Hopi Indians of Arizona, who are seen on his canvases imbued with the haze of romance which surrounds the old Indian pueblos. The picturesque in the rugged Indian buck, and the stolid pathos of the squaw speaks from these pictures, and their homes,