Show SELECT AMERICAN ARTISTS they are arc the best beat ones to paint pot per traits of americans as general sheridan discovered americans are learning that the met men to paint portraits of americans are american portrait painters although tho the number of foreigners who como come 0 vor here and succeed in getting con commissions mr rily through dealers who exploit them thein shows no signs of dimic ashing it Is being borne in on the minds of the sitters anti and their families that the artist of another people la is likely to make his sitter look like a tyve type of his own land rather than of the sit sitters tors land are begin beginning nin to realize that the old portraits which they admire were painted mainly by artists of the same blood as their sitters A sculptor com coin on tho the matter recently said some people learn that very quick ly IY but the others have slow eyes yet to show you that it does doea not at all talco take an artist to perceive it t let me tell you what gen phil sheridan said to me I 1 was going to make a bust busi of him said he X by everybody and what have they done ono to me ive been painted by a an hallim and he mode made me look like an italian ive been painted by a oer cler mon men and he viada me look like a german I 1 was painted by a jew and lie made roe me look like an israelite now do 1 you see the general learned the lesson quickly but maybe why lie he was wag a general |