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AlHRT DORNI - probably the greatest money-maker in the history of commercial art. At the height of his career, he began a full-time search for people who like to draw. He's Looking for People Who Like to Draw by Rex Taylor Today thousands of people who never thought they could be artists are work ing happily at easels and drawing boards, making pictures and getting paid for them. Clerks, secretaries, mechanics, house wives, salesmen, policemen, people in every walk of life are being helped to success and happiness in art and the one who is least surprised is Albert Dome the man most responsible for their success. Who arc imm of tha paoplo Dorno ku halpad to aneoaodf Don Smith lives in New Orleans. Three years ago Don knew nothing about art even doubted i;e had talent. Today he is an illustrator with the largest advertising agency in the South! John Busketta was a pipefitter's helper in a gas company. He still works for the same company but now he's an artist in the ad vertising department at a big increase in pay. Elizabeth Merriss, busy New York mother, now adds to her family's income by designing greeting cards and illustrating children's books. A great-grandmother in Newark, Ohio, recently had her first local "one-man" show where she sold thirty-two water colors and five oil paintings. John VVhitakcr of Memphis was an air line clerk two years ago. Recently he won a national cartooning contest prize, now docs a comic strip for a group of newspapers. Each of these people and thousands of others have been helped to success in art through a bold program which Albert Dome proposed almost ten years ago. Naw Kind of Art School From the day Albert Dome first became a celebrated illustrator men and women who wanted to be artists flocked to him for help and guidance. "They all had one thing in common," Dome says, "they liked to draw. What most of them needed was a little more confidence in themselves and some practical training in professional art techniques." Dome was eager to help these people, but realized he couldn't do k alone. So he called together a group who, with himself, com prised America's 12 Most Famous Artists. "All over the country," Dome told them, "there arc men and women who like to draw and who could be successful artists. Why can't we give these people the one tiling they can't get elsewhere the trade secrets and techniques we learned only through years of successful experience. I'm suggesting an entirely new kind of home study art school . . . one that will give talented peoplq everywhere an opportunity to get top-drawer professional art training without leaving their homes or giving up their -jobs." The idea met with great enthusiasm. Taking time off from their busy careers the famous artists perfected a revolutionary new way to teach drawing and painting. They made over 5,000 special illustrations for their course, each man contributing his own special "hallmark of greatness." For example. Norman Rockwell devised a sim ple way to explain how to create his famous heart-warming characters. Jon Whitcomb explained how to draw the stunning "glam our girls" that have brought him world wide fame. Al Dome showed step-bv-step ways to achieve action and humor. Then came their most challenging prob lem . . . how would they correct the draw ings that students living hundreds of miles away mailed to the School? The famous artists dug deep into their own rich experi ences. The system they finally developed is the most personal, most effective method of America's 12 Most Famous Artists NOIIMAN ROCKWELL FRED LUDKKKNS JON WHITCOMB BEN BTAHL AL PARKER ROBERT FAWCETT BTEVAN OOHANOS AUSTIN BRIOOS ' DONO KINGMAN HAROLD VON SCHMIDT PETER HELCK ALBERT DORNE criticism the field of art has ever known. The course' was planned so that people with no previous art training could start right from scratch. Yet it has proved so complete and practical that thousands of professional artists have also enrolled to further improve their earning power. This original course in Commercial Art and Illustration was so successful that two other equally outstanding courses have since been added . . . one in Fine Arts Painting, the other in Professional Cartooning. The Famous Artists Schools, still owned and run by the famous artists who started it, now has active students in every state and in over 40 foreign countries. Albert Dome, President of the School, is hot surprised at all by the success of his students. "Opportunities open to trained NORMAN ROCKWELL - America's bcst-lovcd artist and a founder of the Famous Artists Schools. artists today arc enormous. We continually get calls and letters from art buyers all over the U. S. They ask us for practical, well trained students not geniuses who can fill full-time or part-time jobs." Ravaging Art Taiant Taat Today, instead of interviewing people, Dome and his fellow artists have created a much more revealing method for discover ing and measuring art talent . . . their own 12-pagc Famous Artists Talent Test. Orig inally there was a $1 charge for this test. Today, their School offers it free and grades it free. Men and women who reveal natural talent through the test arc eligible for train ing by the School . . . right in their own homes and in their spare time. Find out if your art talent is worth train ing. Simply return the coupon. The Fa mous Artists Talent Test will be mailed to you without cost or obligation. This might well be your first step to an exciting new life in the wonderful world of art. FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOLS I Studio 6S9, Wartaart, Cann. j I Please send me without obligation your Famous Artists Talent Test. J I M'. 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