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Portrait RestorationBecomes Career of!New York WomanUnusual Profession Proves Interesting AlthoughExactingiiiNEW YORK, Jan, 21 -EleanorWhittiesley Kotz has one of the most exacting professions of any woman in j America./v.\ • i •' V 'V ^ ' | ' 8 BShe lifts 4he painted faces of ancestors and restores them to poster-it. She is one of the few eminent women portrait restorers in this country.In her studio in downtown New York. Miss Kotz entertains only ce- j lebrities. In their gold frames some * of the oldest of New York families are face to face just as they must actually have turned to face each j other over the tea tables discussing the latest war news in 1776 or gossiped of fashions in 1850.“Most portraits come to me because even canvas and paint are sensitive to time, dirt, steam heat and the artificialities of ‘this lifer’ Miss Kotz explained. as she gently rubbed the surface of a portrait with a piece of gauze.“Environment has really beaten heredity for them,” she added with a little tw inkle in her eye.Art Must Be VersatilePortrait restoration, she told only begins with the application chemical. When canvases are paint has cracked and color has ished, then there is much to be to bring the picture back. To successful portrait restorer, should be able to mix paint as a Tin- I toretto, or a Raphael, to follow' the j technique of any school, be it Dutch, j Italian, French, English, and above i 11. be endowed wuth such restraint that the features never are clearer, more beautiful or better colored then the original. Exactness is the ! hrst requirement in judging just how well a picture has been restored.That is wrhy comparatively few ant-i$ts are doing portraiture tion in this country. Very them are women. Miss Kotz a pioneer in this wrork as a profession for women, and she remains unrivaled in reputation, having served her apprenticeship wuth the late Hammond Smith, wrho restored the paintings for the Metropolitan museum.me, | of a torn,j van- I done be a one;0arestoi a-!few of j really isARTIST RENOVATES OLD PORTRAITSJI_JEleanor Whittlesley Kot* ... in her New York studio.LAST YEAR’S WIFEBy Alice M. WilliamsonSYNOPSIS Lome Carlton and Dick Farrow, pop-istars of Hollywood, delayed hone moon,marriage, Lome isuiar moving picture sail for Europe on a after a year’s happy sad about leaving, as she has an unde-finable presentiment of trouble, but Dick is anxious for adventure Dick's parents are famous on the .^tage. Lome, whofought her way through poverty to the heights, feels that she is not approved by the elder Farrows. Dolores, duchess o! Crowninshield, a friend of Dick’s parents, has invited the young people to be her guests in London She is divorced fromofWe parted then with pride Neither with sighs nor words Proffered I thee with reproach jealousyWe broke apart for aye Yet only if witb thee I might but chance to meet!Ah, that with thee I might but chance to meet!I weep not nor complain.To Fate I bend the knee I know not if you loved So ereatlv wroneins? me?
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jan 21, 1932
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