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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1960)
A America's 12 Most Famous Artists Or rp-n-n i i ' Albart Dorna I VI V HI I -VI 1 Lfc Nonun Rockwall Al Parker Jon Whitoomb 1 " 1 " I ! I I T- i i T Frad Ludakana fin Austin Brigga 1 ; -. Harold Von Schmidt Robart Fawestt Dong Kingman - , We're looking for people who like tcP draw Patar Halek Staraa Dohuo F you like to draw, America's 12 Most Famous Artist want to lest your art lalQt. 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 ininJirmmr artists npver did. Most of them weic umliieOT lIleM1 tSHWWWMPna findflig 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 Flan to Holp Othara a Q 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 oil from our busy art careers, we pooled thelensive knowl edge of art, the protcssional know-how, and the priceless trade secrets which we, ourselves, were able to learn only through long and successful experience. q We illustrated this knowledge willT 5,000 special drawings; then organized it into aeries of lessons covering every aspecyif drawing and painting . . . lessons that anyone could take right in their own homes and in their spare effective method ever developed for criticizing a student's drawings and paintings. Our program of art training is now well known and respected allQer 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 Qrator with a leading advertising agency in the q South and Qs a (Qure as big as he 'wants to make it. O Fathar of Tnraa Wt-ja Naw Caraar 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 sccsq 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. Changaa His Whola Ufa "Your course has been the difference between failure and success for me," writes Robert MeeOiam 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 Savan Time Aa Muoh Eric Ericson used to be a clerk in an auto parts department. I'haQks to our training, he is now an art director at segjPumes the salQy he was Quaking when tie enrolled. When Kathryn Gorsuch of Mt. (Vernon, Ohio found out she was y have a baby she left her filing job at an aircraft company and studied art Qt home with us. By the time the worn tor tne same company . . . mis tune as a well-paid commercial arst. John Whitaker of Memphis was an airline tlerjfwhen he enrolled) with us. Two years Titer, he won a prize in a national cartooning contest and was signed to do a daily comic strip for a group of newspaper? Profitable Hobby-at A great-grandmother in Newafflt, Ohio decided to use her spare time to study painting. Re ceiinU she had her first local "one-man" show where she sold thirty-two water colors and five oil paintings. " Q 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 lie can handle. O Qothar lo gkmlly'a InQma Elizabeth Merriss busy New York mother now adds to her family income byQt'signing gift wrappings and (cling cards and ilUtt q iraicliildwi'shnoks. v In rust four months Doris Wbiurof Wauwa tosa. Wis., has painted and sold 750 worth of paintings ... all in her spare time! Sand for &.rfyu.rti0 Talont Taft OTo find other men and women with talent worth developing, we have created a speQl 1 2-page Art Talent Test. Thousands of people ' formerly jraid $1 for this test. But now our .School olQrs it free anSwill grade it free. lOjple whoevcal talent through this test are eligible for professional training by the School . . . right in their own homes. Ayou like to draw and vJSnt to know if you hQ- talent worth developing mail the cou pon today. The test will be ma$:d to you without cost or obligation. Famous Artists Spools Stadia 8042, WMtport, Conn. I would like to find out whether I have art I talent worth developing. Please send me, . without obliration, your Famous Artists ! Talent Test. . . n ' Mrs ' Address. I I City (please print) Zone I County- -State-
