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America's 12 Most Famous Artists -mrn Albert Dorne I Tl fa at Norman Rockwall Al Parker " Jon Whitoomb Fred Lndekena 4 ' f 5 fca"asasssssssMssi -jyWM i Ben Btahl N MS Austin Brim. I I Robert rtwwtt t. X f" ' 3 7 urn Harold Von Schmidt ' ' "if We're looking for people who like to draw Peter Hoick Btevan Dohmnoc 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 whether 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 have 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 convinced they had talent simply couldn't get top notch professional art training without leaving home or giving up their jobs. A Plan to Help Others 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 and 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 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 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 illus trator with a leading advertising agency in the South and has a future as big as he wants to make it. Father of Thiw Wlna Now Carom 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. With our training, Wanda Pickulski of Rex ford, N. Y., was able to give up her typing job to become fashion artist for a local depart ment store. Changes Hla Whole Ufa "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." Kama Seven Times Aa Much 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. 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. 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. 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 Booata Family's Income Elizabeth Lincoln mother of six is now teach ing art classes in her Massachusetts home and building a tidy nest egg for her children's edu cation. . In just four months Doris White of Wauwa tosa, Wis., has painted and sold $750 worth of paintings ... all in her spare time! Send for Famous Artist Talent Teat 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 cou pon today. The test will be mailed to you without cost or obligation. Famous Artists Schools Studio 5341, Weetport, Conn. I would like to find out whether I have art talent worth developing. Please send me, without obligation, your Famous Artists Talent Test. Mr. Mrs . Age Address City County- Zone -State-
