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.
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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
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