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o Advertisement America's 12 Most Famous Artists "We're looking for people who like to draw" BY ALBERT DORNE Famous Mararin Illustrator If you like to draw America's 12 Most Famous Artists want you to test your art talent. We want to find out if you can be trained to be a successful, money-making artist This offer is part of a program we began ten years ago. We found that many men and women who should have become artists didn't. Most of them hesitated to find out how much hidden art talent they had. Others who knew they had talent simply never had the opportunity to get topnotch professional training. My colleagues and I decided to do some thing about this. Taking time off from our busy art careers, we pooled the extensive knowledge of art, the professional know how, and the priceless trade secrets which we ourselves were able to learn only through long, successful experience. We illustrated this knowledge with 5,000 special drawings; then organized it into a series of lessons covering every aspect of drawing and painting . . . lessons that any one could take right in their own homes and. in their spare time. Finally after much testing we perfected what is probably the most personal and effective method of criti cizing a student's drawings and paintings that the field of art teaching has ever known. Our program of art training is now well known and respected all over America. Dur ing the past ten years, we have helped thousands of people find success in art. Here are just a few: Don Smith lives in New Orleans. Three years ago Don knew nothing about art even doubted he had talent. Today, he is an illustrator with a leading advertising agency in the South and has a future as big as he wants to make it Harriet Kuzniewski was bored with an "ordinary" job when she sent for our talent test. Once convinced that she had the mak ings of an artist she started to study art at home. Soon she was offered a job as a fash ion artist. A year later, she became assistant art director of a big buying office. Pipe-fitter to Artist John Busketta is another. He was a pipe fitter's helper with a big gas company until he decided to do something about his urge to draw. He still works for the same company but as an artist in the advertising department. At a big increase in pay! Eric Ericson used to be a clerk in an auto parts department. Thanks to our training, he is now an art director at seven times the salary he was making when he enrolled. Salesgirl, Clerk, and of Three Wie New Careers A West Virginia salesgirl studied with us, got a job as an artist, later became advertis ing manager of the best store in Charleston. John Whitaker of Memphis, Tenn., was an airline clerk when he began studying with us. Two years later, he won a national cartooning contest. Recently, a huge syndi cate signed him to do a daily comic strip. Stanley Bowen a married man with three children, unhappy in a dead-end job took our training and switched to a great new career in art. Now he's one of the happiest men you'll ever meet! ProAtojbfo HolssVysst 72 A great-grandmother in Newark, Ohio, de cided to use her spare time to study paint ing. Recently, she had her first local "one man" show where she sold thirty-two water colors and five oil paintings. Cowboy Starts Art Bus in ess Donald Kern a cowboy from Miles City, Montana studied art with us. Now he paints portraits, sells them for $250 each, and gets all the business he can handle. Elizabeth Merriss busy New York mother now adds to her family income by design ing gift wrappings and greeting cards and illustrating children's books. Gertrude Vander Poel had never drawn a thing until she started studying with us. Now a swank New York gallery exhibits her paintings for sale. rree Art Talent Test To find other men and women with talent worth developing, we have created a spe cial 12-page art talent test. Thousands of people formerly paid $1 for this test. But now our School offers it free and will grade it free. People who reveal talent through this test are eligible for professional training by the School . . . right in their own homes. If you like to draw and want to know if you have talent worth developing mail the coupon today. Thecjest will be mailed to you without cost or obligation.0 0 o l ALBERT DORNE 8k! i AL PARKER HAROI.O VON SCHMIDT njfP MM FRED LUDEKENS ROBERT FAWCETT 4 A Vk I SI IS J&sri. 1 6-ii7Hot.l U DONG KINGMAN 10 NORMAN ROCKWELL IPC JON WHITCOMB STEVAN DOHANOS PETER HELCK BEN STAHL AUSTIN BRICGS FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOLS Studio 390, Westport, Conn. Send me, without obligation, your Famous Artist Talent Test. Mr. I Mrs.. I Miss n hint) .Age. I Address. I City, Zone, Slate . L . rWOIOMMBBBBBOJSBj )0 o
