Evening star., 1947-09-21
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Yourselves 80.
.By phiIip n. Love.

The ideal hobby, it seems to me,
is one which provides profit as well
as pleasure.
But don't get me wrong. BY
profit" I don't mean dollars and
cents. I mean-well, maybe the
best way to get the idea across is
simply to tell you about Art Wood.
Arthur Wood, jr., now a sophomore
at Washington and Lee University,
became interested in comic art as
a small boy. He not only read the
comics In the newspapers, as all
boys and girls do; he studied them.
After q while he got to be some
thing Of an expert on the styles of
various comic artists. He could
glance at q comic and tell you who
had drawn it.
From the comics Arts interest
gradually broadened to include the
whole field Of cartooning and illus
trating. Then he decided 1t would
be fun to collect original drawings
by his favorite artists.
Now Art has the finest collection
of originals I've ever seen. Just
name your favorite cartoonist,
comic strip artist or magazine illus
traitor and the chances are at least
8 to that Art has an autographed
specimen of his work.
X X X II,
Are you a follower of Mutt and
jeff" "Oaky Doaks," Little Orphan
Annie" Kerry Drake" Harold
Teen" or "Tarzan"? Well, your
favorite comic artist is represented
in Arts collection. If you're more
interested in cartooning of a diff
ferent type you'll find originals by
Clifford K. and James T. Berry
man, Oscar Cesare, Fred o. Seibel
and many others. And in the field
Of illustration there are drawings
and paintings by Norman Rockwell
James Montgomery Flagg and q
long list of others equally famous.
Arts bedroom at 208 West Leland
street, Chevy Chase, Md, Is a gal
lery of framed originals in pen-and-
ink, crayon, wash, oil, water color
and pastel. And there are scores
Of others packed away, unframed.
whats the use of going to the
expense of having them framed?'
Art shrugs. There's no wall space
for them. Some day, though, II
design and build house of my own
and there'll be plenty of wall space
for my collection"
Art obtained his originals by mai
and through visits to the studios o1
his favorite artists. 1--WE had lot
of fun calling on artists" he says
Most of them are swell people anc
I've made some good friends"
II X
But in the beginning I said some.
thing about profit" Well, Art ex.
plains that phase of his hobby thi!
way:
"At first I was interested only II
collecting. But as I studied tn,
works of various artists, comparing
their techniques, ETC., I found my
self wanting to draw, too. Prett!
soon I was copying favorfte car.
toonists. and from there it was onl,
a step to trying to do original stuff.
At Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School Art drew cartoons and illus
trations for student publications
More recently he contributed two
cartoons to The Sunday Star Pic
torial Magazine. Next Summer HI
plans to study under Carey Orr
Vaughn Shoemaker and another
famous cartoonist at the Chicago
Art Institute.
Thus Arts hobby has not only
provided pleasure through the years
it has helped him to discover ths
line of work in which he is mos
likely to find happiness and sue
cess. That's where the profit
comes in. And that kind Of prof
makes the difference between 6
mere pastime and an ideal hobby.