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America's 12 Most Famous Artists Albert Donas f Norman Rockwell re np3ri ' - I r r I Tr-i -f U u - j & AI Parker Jon Whltoomb v W - if JFIt Fred Ludekens - J Austin Briggv AC 1 jjT'"." J i' Robert Fawcett leV Dong Kingman Harold Von Schmidt We're looking for people who like to draw Peter Helok Steran Dohanos If you like to draw, America's 12 Most Famous Artists want to test your art talent. We'd like to help you 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 could fiave become artists and should have become artists never did. Most of them were unsure of their talent and had no way of finding .out whether it was worth developing. Others who were sure they had talent just couldn't get topnotch professional art training . without leaving home or giving up their jobs. A Plan to Help Others N We decided to do something about this. We decided to make it possible for anyone, any where, who likes to draw and who has talent worth developing to get the training he needs to become an artist. Taking time off from our busy art careers, we pooled the extensive knowl edge of art, the professional know-how, and the priceless trade secrets which we, ourselves, were able to learn only through long 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 anyone could take right in their own homes and in their spare time. Finally after years of teaching we per fected what is probably the most personal and effective method ever developed for criticizing a student's drawings and paintings. : ' Our program of art training is now well known and respected all over America. During the past ten years, we have helped thousands of people, find success in art. Here are a few: Three years ago Donald C. Smith knew noth ing about art even doubted he had talent. Today, he is an illustrator with a leading adver tising agency in New Orleans and has a future as big as he wants to make it. . Father of Three Wins New Career ' Stanley Bowen a married man with three children, unhappy in a "dead-end" job be gan studying with us, evenings. Now he's earn- ing a much higher salary as an illustrator for a growing art studio. And his family sees a happy, secure future ahead. Thanks to our training, Wanda Pickulski, Rexford, N. Y., gave-up her typing job, became fashion artist for a local department store. Changes His Whole Life "Your course has been the difference' between failure and success for me," writes Robert Meecham of Ontario, Canada. "I've come from an $18.00 a week apprentice to where I now own my own house, two cars, and hold stock in two companies." Earns Seven Times As Much Eric Ericson used to be a clerk in an auto parts department. Thanks to our training, he is now ian art director at seven times the salary he was making when he enrolled. When Kathryn Gorsuch of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, found out she was to have a baby she left her filing job at an aircraft company and studied art at home with us. By the time the baby was seven months old, she went back to work for the same company . . . this time as a well-paid commercial artist. Profitable Hobby -at 72 A great-grandmother in Newark, Ohio, decided to use her spare time to study painting. Re cently, she had her first local "one-man" show where she sold thirty-two water colors and five oil paintings. 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. Mother Boosts Family's Inoome Elizabeth Merriss busy New York mother now adds to her family income by designing gift wrappings and greeting cards and illus trating children's books. John Whitaker of Memphis, was an airline clerk when he enrolled with us. Two years later, he won a prize in a national cartooning contest and was signed to do a daily comic strip for a group of newspapers. Send for Famous Artists Talent Test To find other men and women with talent worth developing, we have created a special 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. We will mail you the test without cost or obligation. We'll enclose with it, free of charge, an illustrated 52-page booklet, "Art School For Everyone Everywhere" . . . showing you the ways that are open to you to learn and to suc ceed as thousands of our students have done, with the help of the Famous Artists Schools.. 1 - Famous Artists Schools j Studio 8115, Westpert. Coma. I would like to Find out if I have art talent worth developing. Please send me, without obligation, your . Famous Artists Talent Test and your illustrated 52- page booklet, "Art School for Everyone Everywhere." I Mr. I Mrs. I Miss I Address I . I City (please print) .Age- .Zone- I County .State- I I I r i
