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...year plus a commission of $1,000 for every 10,000 increase in circulation. "I did not see Mr. Hearst when I went to work for him. I don't think he cared to see me. I had been rather disagreeable in various ways, hiring away men, like [Artist Homer] Davenport and Alfred Henry Lewis, then saying to them: 'Go back and get more money, I don't need you, the Journal does...
...League Club decided it should have a portrait of the new President to hang on the walls of its new clubhouse. Eakins, a Philadelphian who had won prizes at the Centennial Exposition, was commissioned. Like most new Presidents, Mr. Hayes felt he had no time to give for sittings. Artist Eakins humbly suggested that the Chief Executive might allow him to set up his easel in the President's office and make a picture while the President worked. Mr. Hayes, an excellent if unimaginative man, was agreeable; he stripped off his coat (it was a typical Washington summer) and went...
Thomas Eakins saw nothing strange in this; he himself often worked in his undershirt and a pair of overalls. (When the busy Chief Executive had to leave his office, Artist Eakins occupied himself with painting in a careful view of 19th Century Washington from the window.) Artist and President continued their- respective labors, and in due time the completed portrait was presented to the Union League Club...
Critics last week were inclined to award first prize to Harry Hering, in civil life a photo-engraver, for his boldly painted Maine lobstermen's houses. Like some college football teams, Artist Hering, technically a businessman, is open to the charges of professionalism. He has had exhibitions in professional dealers' galleries...
Died. Kahlil Gibran, 47, Syrian philosopher, artist, poet (The Prophet, The Earth God; Jesus, the Son of Man); of cancer of the liver; in Manhattan...