Studio: international art (26.1902)

American Press Illustrators

SENATOR HOAR DRAWN BY P. J. MEYLAN

(From the "Boston Herald")

this function they already profess to feel. Here,
again, applies a golden rule of art, that it is never
necessary to make things ugly in order to make
them useful.

The colour supplement pages of the great
Sunday and holiday editions afford many oppor-
tunities for diffusing a knowledge of good, sound
decorative art in design. Little has been accom-
plished except on very unsatisfying pictorial lines
and with subjects which demand a far more com-
plete process of printing in order to carry them
out successfully. Now that the movement towards
decorative drawing has made its appearance in the

news page, it is only a step from these patterns in
black-and-white to the comparative splendour of
the "multicolour" page if artistic knowledge is
brought to bear upon the subject.

I have before me a page from one of the large
Sunday editions which is almost completely filled
with a design based on heraldic terms, by no means
an uncommon motive among American draughts-
men. It is most effectively treated as a black-and-
white drawing, but little or nothing has been done
with its colour possibilities. The American artists,
no doubt in common with most others, feel the
heraldic motive to be unsafe ground. This is in a
great measure due to the false and pedantic teach-
ings of most books on the subject, which have
nearly always been compiled and written from the
archaeologist's point of view, without any recogni-
tion of the possibilities of the subject for effective
design.

"SIR WILFRED LAURIER BY HENRI JULIEN

AS A COON MINSTREL"

(From the " Montreal Star'')

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