Show SELECT AMERICAN ARTISTS they are aco the tha best beat ones one to paint aint portraits of americans americana as general sheridan ble discovered covered americans americana ure tire that the mon men to paint portraits of 0 Ameri americans canh are american portrait painters although althou Kh tho the number of foreigners who come over here and succeed in gotting getting commissions mainly through dealers who ex exploit them shows no signs of diminishing it Is being borno borne in on the minds of the sitters and their faint llos 1105 1 that thai the artist of a other people ts Is likely to make hla his bitter took look like it topeat type lof his own land rather than of the sitters land they are begin beginning to realize that the old portraits which they admire painted mainly by artists of the samo same blood as their sitters A sculptor corn com on the he matter recently said some people learn that very quickly 1 but the others have slow eyes yet to show you that it does not at all take an artist to perceive it lot let mo me tell you what gen phil sheridan said paid 10 0 o me I 1 I 1 wits going to make a bust of him said he ive been painted it seems to me by everybody and what have thoy they done to me ive been painted by on an italian and he made me lok like an italian ive been pointed painted by it a germen german and he made me look like a german I 1 was painted by a jew and ho he made me look uke an Is raelise raelite ra elite now do I 1 you see the general learned the I 1 lesson cason quickly but waybe maybe bly he was a general |