The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
Models Big Worry
In Life Of Artist
After Painter Makes Subject
Famous She's Likely to De-
Sert Studio for Movies.

The life of an artist, even a successful
artist, is not happy one,so they all say.
no matter what opinion may be held by
those who have gained their ideas and
opinions from books and stories For
the artist has one eternal worry, one tre-
mendous ever present difficulty that
may make or break him and that causes
him often to lose sleep o nights-his
model.
On her depends much, and IL she fails
even the best artist In the world Is
hard put to overcome the handicap.
One of New Yorks most widely
known magazine cover artists shares
this opinion and adds that as q truism,
an artist often makes a model famous
while she in turn may bring renown to
her employer. A good poser, he says,
is a pearl beyond price; the present day
model is becoming more and more
aware of this fact. She is imperious;
and there are the movies
1--WE artists train our models ana
paint them," he says. The public ad-
mires them. Then the movies snatch
them from us. The movies find models
easy to work with, which is more than
the painter can say of the movie actress
he, in turn. sometimes uses as model
The professional movie actress is try
dramatic poses and she expects to hold
them only the few seconds the camera
would need to get the picture. The
actresses have hard time being natural
over a given period and the artist has
harder time trying to paint them bee
fore they have become artificial.
Typists Good Models
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says, when they let the edge wear off
their office efficiency long enough to
Ilose the tenseness that characteriZes
them through the business day, and he
and other artists are constantly on the
lookout for models in the offices of their
business friends, for they are always
finding themselves in the lurch for want
of good one, Notwithstanding the fact
that every day numbers of nice look
ing girls call at their studios asking to
pose for the conventional dollar an
hour which is the regular pay for
model. These applicants are seen and
labeled in the minds Of the artists as
expressing one type or another, and
are either welcomed or dismissed.
In the old days it was not so difficult
to find the right type, but now when
an artist finds the one he Is looking for
he does everything possible to keep her.
"a perennial pretty girl" to quote the
same artist rs still on my list of models.
I've been painting her. off and on, for
almost twelve years and she's just as
good on canvas as ever as In the right
light she can suggest youth and fresh
ness as wildly as she could when first
painted her. She lacks personality; she's
only hack pretty girl model, but I'd
pay her salary to keep her on call IL
she'd only let me. Like all other good
models to-day, however, she won't listen
to such a proposition. She feels that to
accept such an offer would be to show
poor business judgment"
Models Elusive Persons.
And so the poor artists are up against
IT, They never know when a good
model who is exactly the type required
is going to quit and join the movies that
whisper seductively in her ears, and she
is more than likely to respond just when
the artist has started on series OK
twelve covers on contract for a eoa-
zine and he can find no one to fill her
place on the models throne. Sometimes.
in fact usually, such OBJECTIONS result In
the artist losing money, always they are
vinegar and gall in la vie boheme.