DOI Heft:
No. 341 (August 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0090
STUDIO-TALK
DESIGN FOR A POSTER. BY
H. WEAVER HAWKINS
by any means represent the full artistic make certain small movements, but the
powers of Mr. H, Weaver Hawkins, but arm it was attached to was otherwise
from an executive point of view they do useless. It was by propping this left
give a hint of the swiftness and iron pre- hand with a semi-active right arm and
cision of handling which make him so ' jiggling it about' that he was again able
impressive an instance of the proverbial to draw. It seemed a fantastic project,
superiority of mind over matter. " It For the encouragement of optimists be
must be admitted," writes Mr. Walter it noted that the impossible has been
Bayes, " that when on his return to achieved ; for the information of officials,
civilian life Mr. Hawkins consulted me that it has not been without great strain
in regard to his project of drawing again, on the artist's physique, a strain which
I quoted that well-worn tag not without must be and is already being paid for.
secret qualms. Here was a man who had If some incredible official meanness should
not merely lost completely the use of his penalise pluck by revising (on the authority
right hand; his shoulders were powerless, of this publication) the pittance of a
his left hand could just hold a pencil and pension Mr. Hawkins is entitled to, I
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DESIGN FOR A POSTER. BY
H. WEAVER HAWKINS
by any means represent the full artistic make certain small movements, but the
powers of Mr. H, Weaver Hawkins, but arm it was attached to was otherwise
from an executive point of view they do useless. It was by propping this left
give a hint of the swiftness and iron pre- hand with a semi-active right arm and
cision of handling which make him so ' jiggling it about' that he was again able
impressive an instance of the proverbial to draw. It seemed a fantastic project,
superiority of mind over matter. " It For the encouragement of optimists be
must be admitted," writes Mr. Walter it noted that the impossible has been
Bayes, " that when on his return to achieved ; for the information of officials,
civilian life Mr. Hawkins consulted me that it has not been without great strain
in regard to his project of drawing again, on the artist's physique, a strain which
I quoted that well-worn tag not without must be and is already being paid for.
secret qualms. Here was a man who had If some incredible official meanness should
not merely lost completely the use of his penalise pluck by revising (on the authority
right hand; his shoulders were powerless, of this publication) the pittance of a
his left hand could just hold a pencil and pension Mr. Hawkins is entitled to, I
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