Judge — February 18, 1893 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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A GREAT IMPETUS TO ART. SINCE Mr. F. D. Millet invented his labor-saving process of painting by = squirting on the color through a rubber F hose, high art has received a wonderful 3 f SWINDLES impetus. " CIRCUS Artist. Millet’s contrivance, like so Cr oeerneart vy | many other inventions, was the child of necessity. He had vast areas of wall and ceiling at the Columbian exposition to color, and he despaired of getting the work done by the old method in time for the opening of the fair, Now he lays the tints on by the barrelful. Mr. Millet’s apparatus consists of a hose, fitted at the business end with a nozzle expanded and perforated by numer- ous small holes. The other end of the hose rests in the paint-barrel. The color is pumped through by an electric motor, ? r which also gathers up and sends along plicate ta the etre © Puss at iS." with the paint compressed sections of the atmosphere. ‘The man who engineers the work points the nozzle at the surface to be painted, and the color is deposited in the form of fine spray. The work of decorating the exposition buildings now goes along at a rapid-transit gait, for one man armed with a hose can smear as much paint on a given surface as twenty men could do with brushes. IL, i incr Bout : TONAREC URGULATION, THE MEANEST MAN ON RECORD. 090000000 ff Out-or-town rarty—" Lemme see a paper, my little son. Ah, here's some interesting news.” (Reads half a column, hands back the paper and walks off.) Mrs. FARRELLY (the apple-tooman, in a shrill veice}—"* How's everythin’ over in Boshton, sor?” dark-green sea is done. The master and his as- sistant, then pass to the next canvas and repeat the operation, and so on until all bear a dark-green sea. The sky stencil is next taken in hand, and in like manner the misty blue clouds are squirted on with rapidity and precision. After the canvases are all treated to clouds it is usually lunch-time. On his return from lunch Mr. van Dyke puts in the hery orb. ‘This is hand-painted, and he does it without assistance from his colored boy. The artist's signature, which occupies several degrees of latitude in the southeast corner of the sea, is also placed on in the old way. Other examples could be given of the results attainable from Mr. Millet’s great idea, but this will suffice. Enough has been said to show the intelli- gent reader the possibilities of the new process, Into all of our homes will come the great master- pieces of this school of art, for impressionist paint- ings will now be within the reach of all. WILLIAM HRS siVETe 1e new arrivals?” ‘ou bet! Look over yonder Of course a brilliant idea like this could not be confined to mural ornamentation. Producers of high-art paintings were quick to grasp the priiciple by the nape of the neck and apply it. The efforts of one well-known artist in this line will be alluded to. Mr. Raphael van Dyke of Weehawken, New Jersey, the noted painter of impressionist works, has already performed wonders with a modified form of Millet’s idea. He is now rapidly duplicating his cele- brated painting “Sunset,” which has received the highest encomiums at many exhibitions, and each copy is more beautiful than the original. Mr. van Dyke's masterpiece consists of a dark-green sea which rolls over the southern half of the canvas, a misty blue sky which covers the upper half, and a fiery red sun sinking into the water. With the aid of a rubber paint-squirt and a set of stencils the artist can now turn out one hundred “Sunsets” a day, and then be through with his work by four each afternoon. This is the way he works it. All around the walls of his extensive studio are placed canvases each three feet by five. These are set in position by the colored boy who sweeps out, and are ready when the master arrives at nine in the morning, Mr. van Dyke takes up stencil number one, cut to fit the sea. As the colored boy holds it over the canvas the master turns on the hose, and in precisely two minutes the A BIG DIFFERENCE. Tracuek—" Why, it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” NUMSKULL—" Whose face, mum 7" comicbooks.com