The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-11-26

Dionne Quintuplets. Moreover,
they've held that honor for the last
nine years and it's doubtful If any
Hollywood star or ctlrvaceous Pow
ers model will ever displace them
since it seems that the plain people
of America have, both figuratively
and literally, pinned their devotion
to Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Emile
and Marie Dionne, whose childish
charms have been displayed the
length and breadth of this land in
paintings by Artist Andrew Loomis
on Brown and Bigelow calendars.
By actual count calendars bearing
the picture of the CUNTS have sold
into the tens of millions!
What is true of this picture is true
to almost as great an extent OF pic
lures produced by other artists mem
toned above. For they have pro-
duced pictures in every field-land-
scapes, portraits, ''leg art' and
nudes, also some of the best known
sporting pictures in the world. I'm
doubleday the average American
knows the baby pictures of Maud
Towsey Fangel better than the "Boy
With the Fife" of Manet, and the
Norman Rockwell ''Boy Scout bet
ter than the 'tBlue Boy of Gains
boro. He has become better acquaint-
ed with the landscapes of Max
field Parrish, and feels closer to his
famous blues and puppies than to the.
landscapes of Turner and Corot.
And from daily glances in his Of
fee and on his living room walls,
the average American who hunts
and fishes (and there are Is million
more of hin) has come to know and
love pictures like Frank Hoffman's
cat Bay" one Of the outstanding
calendar pictures in the Brown and
Bigelow catalogue, better than any
of Rosa Bonheur's masterpieces. No,
the average American may not be
tremendously art-conscious, but he
likes pictures and knows what he
likes. Moreover, you'll find what he
likes hanging in his office, home,
garage, work room, and places of
recreation.
And he can hardly wait till his
bank, grocery, gas, or tire company,
or other concern with whom he
does business, or doesn't, sends him
calendar with his favorite artists
picture on it. Whether it's a nude
or revealing bit of anatomy by Rolf
Armstrong or Zoe Mozert, or more
artistic landscape by Maxfeld Par
IRISH, a tragi-comic situation painted
in his inimitable fashion by Norman
Rockwell, or a hunting scene by
Frank Hoffman, each of these art
lists has his fans, and as soon as the
calendar is brought in by the post
man, it is unwrapped, and the plain
American or his Missus hangs it up
at the time-honored spot on the wall.
The subjects they like run from
the Dionne Quintuplets to historical
scenes such as Columbus Discover
ing America or Washington Cross
ing the Delaware. If you think the
present "pin-up'' craze is big, re-
member back to the days when
practically every American home
either hung September Morn" on
the wall, or fought bitterly about the
propriety and even morality of hav-
ing it there.
But the favorite subject, accord
ing to a Brown and Bigelow sur
vey, has always been the landscape.
The scene must be a homely, COM
Portable and comforting one-not
the noisy, over-colored, fiashy,
modern art. However, the outstand-
ing favorite of the average Amer
lean, q favorite that has held its
leadership for nine years, are the
calendars picturing the CUNTS. An
drew Loomis' drawings of Canada's
chief peacetime industry have sold