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NEW YORK CHAUfFEUR TRANS FORMED INTO WORK OF ART BECAUSE OF CURIOSITY. New York.—Peeping Tom, the chauffeur, has been discovered. Al most all winter long he has spent his evenings on the roof over the night life classes of the New York School of Art. The skylights over the men’s life class and the women’s next to it are of frosted glass, but on the parts of the wall that raise the skylights above the level of the roof there are tiny windows. You can peek through those tiny windows and see all. Artists have been laying for the man that has been making catfalls on the roof. They got him the other evening. They took him down into the life class feet last and made him throw his clothes away and mount the model throne—the girl model had been promptly dismissed after the roof cap ture—and throw out his chest to offer a good surface for paint. Then they applied their brushes industriously and turned him into the aurora bore alis. They would be painting him still if Robert Henri had not dropped in late in the evening to make his semi weekly criticisms of his students’ work. His criticism was particularly short and sweet this time. All the students say Mr. Henri's visit was most inopportune. Never in their young lives had they worked so earnestly in the spirit of art for art's sake as they did while frescoing the curious chauffeur, Artist McPher son and old Master Boss, both of whom do the most beautiful deco rative work, took up keeping Tom's ribs first of all and flowered them with forget-me-nots conventionally ar ranged. At the same time Hannibal Pre ziosi, in a few bold strokes, outlined on Tom's wide chest a bird’s eye view of the United States navy. Artist Preziosi is great for nautical stuff. Down the model's back all this time was progressing a panoramic view of the battle of Lookout mountain. The right leg was given over to a three-quarter length portrait of Vice- President Fairbanks and the left to a full length of Simeon Ford standing on Pat McCarren’s shoulders—the lat ter mounted on a pedestal. And when the entire surface was covered some one signed the composite picture with the name of Mr. Comstock to add a touch of moral tone to the effect. Then They Applied Their Brushes.
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The Springfield Herald
Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, Apr 24, 1908
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