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Show PAINTING SYMBOLIC OF AMERICAN ! PATRIOTISM GREW FROM CARTOON I Artist Portrays Patriotism Which Overcomes Difficulties CLKYKLANP. July S. "Fourth of Juiv Musicians!" That was the title of a comic paint - inc. .1 cartoon. The Spirit of 70!" That is the title of a nationally DS-loved DS-loved painting, cmbodving the thrill and , i f American patriotism. In these two pictures are the same fares ih same figures, the same action ac-tion painted b) tbs fume artist But In one he caught the spirit of homely humor In a country. Fourth of July hand; In his second and greater painting, paint-ing, the fire which made America. Whe Archibald M Wiliard. Cleveland Cleve-land artist whose death occurred In 19 IS, first deserted his origlnul profession pro-fession of carriage painting h- won ramS with a scries of comic painting. He first ChOSe siibJe. lH which Woujd j appeal to children. "Pluck," his first famous picture, was reproduced bj the . literal thousands, and Is familiar tol every man and woman who Is obi enough to remember n childhood of I thirty or more vcars ago It showed a trio of hubbj children in a perilous peril-ous dog-cart ride, with the dog forgetting for-getting his barge in a mad rabbit chase I HI I PI 11 I II IN I tHTli Then followed such eonilc pictures as "Deacon Jones' Experience, which was named by Bret Harte; and more serious work, such a the portrayal of "Jim Bludsoe." leading character in John Hay's poem of that name. When the time for the Centennial Fxposltion In Philadelphia drew near, It was suggested to Wiliard that he paint a picture appropriate to the time. l-"roni this Suggestion resulted the comic "fourth of July Musicians." A Well-known local character, Hugh Mother. erf, as model for the flfcr; the artist's own futher. a retired minister, min-ister, posed for the old drummer, the central figure; and Harry K. Devcr- eux. son of Qenera) J. n. Devereux of Civil war fame, then a student In a military academy, posed for the boy drummer. GRIP Ol P 11 RI rTTSM, But the true spirit behind his humorous hu-morous sketch gripped Wiliard. and one daj he throv i idr aiid began anew. This tlmh be painted ' Th" Splrll of '7," first named b him 'Yankee Doodle" the picture In hi h the action portrayed has become be-come symbolic of the very spirit of patriotism which led the P.eolutlon-arv P.eolutlon-arv Fathers to victory. The conception was the three musicians mu-sicians niurchuiK on undismayed, after the troops hehind them had been! driven back. In the i.arki?round appears ap-pears the flag untouched, and the first of the soldiers turning to follow thej fife and drum, rallied by their fearlessness. fear-lessness. Almost under the feet ofl the fifer lies a wounded soldier, feehh Waving hH cap at the sound of mar-1 tial music. "The Spirit of 'T6" was, the center! of art interest at the Centennial Exposition, Ex-position, and was later bought by vji-n. n-criMi. iio prcscnica it iu hla homt town. Marblehead, Uassa-ChUsettfl Uassa-ChUsettfl It still hangs there In Abbott Ab-bott Hall. 'Mir of the last hits Of work W(llard did was to copy the, original painting, at the reour.Tt of the, city .if Cleveland Thl.i eop stands' OH ah easel In the rotunda of the! City Hall The artist painted It In 1 9 1 -, at the ase of 76 |