The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-17

looking out on a neighbor's lawn. In Greenwich Village unless you have a north window you are not an artist.
 The half finished picture on the board was of a scene in Greece along about the time of Pericles, and showed a half-dozen young Athenian girls. each wearing chiton Inch of white paper, and the other fellows and with her hair caught up in fiilets. playing at ball.
 "The flapper you see today" Miss Brinkley said, lis the descendant of the girls of the time l am trying to picture here. You see they wear skirts that are just as they should be for outdoor play. Since girls have become devoted to sport in this coun- try-you see, l am trying.
 On the table near the drawing board there were several books. One on Greek sculpture, another on archi- lecture with a picture of the Parthe- non on the outside, and volume out of the set of Grote from one of the sectional bookcases.
 Goes to the Source
 "In trying to get everything right l find 1t helps a great deal to go to the source. Once I just used to draw whatever l felt without bothering about accuracy. But l can't do that now l tryFto have everything as 1t ought to be. historically and every other way. Still a picture ought to explain itself. shouldn't it? If the artist, l mean the person who draws the picture. has to explain 1t, why then the artist--I am trying to ex- plain that in drawing pictures, as you go along and try to do the best you can, you find that you don't know very much. l have to keep buying books all the time"
 Then the Interviewing journalist tried to find out if Miss Brinkiey had certain hours for work, If she worked best in certain moods, if she felt that her work accurately expressed her self, if when the white flame ef in- spiration was on her it's reaction left her pallid and exhausted. All that sort of thing.
 None Of her replies would have impressed the woman whose husband Is not permitted to cucumber her studio. 1t was learned finally that Miss J3rinkley works practically all day when she isn't interrupted and has never considered at all if her work accurately expresses herself l -AAN ShC He<Sil dHy sluQlL tA~ 1 cept the room With the typewriter and the drawing board i'll il, she has no Sart philosophy or convictions about truth to one's self in art ex- pression, or the necessity for high, clear courage, rising triumphant ever inhibitions.
 IVY hen l take a day off and go down to New York;" sine finally ad- mitted, T find it little hard some times to go back to work. And some times do get little terrified-when don't seem to be able to think of anything"
 And the only further pronounce ment on art that the interviewer was able to elicit was that Miss Brinkiey is militant krazy Kat fan and con siders that George Herriman Is a great poet and genius.
 Perhaps some day the unpublished 3uthoress whose husband is never permitted to clutter up her writing room may regard a picture by Miss Brlnkley with sufficient intentness tc discover that it, too. is the work of poet and genius Even if it's creator wears no smock and has not bobbed her plentiful pale gold, inclin- ing to platinum coiored hair, and lives in studioless house in New Rochelle which is exactly 45 minutes from Broadway and fe rty-five and one-half thousand miles from Green wich Village as the crow flies.