Show Crippled Girl Paints I F Way to Art Success f I II I ff I i I Ii i I rv w t f fw asu s I Ib b y I II I I k ki i 1 k I I riA r 1 a d i I 1 M x I i t i t f l' l z r r I 1 I I I I I I i i I I II I I Georgia Wilkinson painting pictures i in her Iter unique fashion Re Reproduction Re-I Re production of her work shows her sister Jack Dempsey and the Dolly I sisters sister I By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT NEA N NEA A Service Staff Writer NEW YORK Nov 24 Georgia Georgia Wilkinson Wilkinson Wil Wil- kinson whose arms are twisted and helpless a subject for the pity of man many is an artist whose paintings of objects of beauty have attracted unusual unusual unusual un- un usual attention She paints with her mouth Holding the brush in her teeth Georgia reproduces reproduces reproduces duces the exquisite features of beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- girls the cunningness of babies the poise of ot statesmen the physical prowess of prize fI fighters and the alertness of oC thoroughbred horses In her dingy clingy lIng studio apartment at apartment n t at Eighth avenue just a couple of hops bops from fantastic Broadway Georgia does her outstanding work in her most unique manner Pictures galore her galore her own work work work- brighten the oth otherwise unbearable sur sur- SHE IS HAPPY Unhappy Not Nol a bit of It I wouldn't change places with anybody In the world says Georgia Her brown eyes shine when she says It Back Bade of It all lies a story of mother I love and devotion ilon and heartache ar and ad d I II disillusionment I n There Thele were six children in the Wilkinson Wilkinson Wil- Wil kinson family but best of all Mother Wilkinson loved her little helpless dau daughter When the other children went to school Georgia learned to hold holda a slate pencil in her teeth Her lIer first drawing was made on a paper torn I from Crom a a cracker box Ye Years rs passed The father who had been a wealthy lumberman died War Var I came and scattered the sons Mother Iother Wilkinson took Georgia a few thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars and nd came to New York to have Georgias Georgia's art talents fostered But one school said she was too old Another said she would distract the attention of or the other students Their of mone money dwindled I There came a time when Georgia I performed ln her work before Herth the thc staring I I II crowds rows in jn 1 museums Her lIer earnings were all an that held the family to together ether I Someone discovered that Georgias Georgia's i beautiful ladles ladle were very much like the other beautiful lad ladies IfS If'S that appear I on ma magazine covers covers overs Mother Wilkinson Wilkin Wilkin- son took a portfolio of Georgias Georgia's drawings drawIngs drawIngs draw- draw Ings and went from office to office I But all the magazines it seemed had their own wn artists AN A ANGEL NG GEL L APPEARS Then a a weAlthy man man recognized Georgias Georgia's ta taunts ta and gave ave her a commission commission com com- om- om mission to paint a portrait of Steinmetz Steinmetz Steinmetz Stein- Stein metz The picture was to be a gift to the great reat electrical wizard who a hunchback had himself risen over In Insuperable insuperable in- in obstacles Steinmetz died before the picture was completed But Georgia isn't giving up I can succeed I 1 can she sa says s Draughtsmen who have watched her work worl have marveled at the perfect proportions of her figures for she uses a short brush and at no time areher are areher areher her eyes more than three Inches from her work worl Her indomitable spirit has taught her not only to draw but to use a ae typewriter e play the piano o sew cut patterns and do bead d and embroidery ld work worl with a loom which she Invented herself from the bottom of a cigar box Only one thing makes her cross People who stand around and never do anything Sometimes she says wistful wistfully I 1 hear women sa say Why I 1 wouldn't wash dishes for Cor any man If It they only knew I And then she brightens But Rut some someday someday 1 day Im I'm J Jn going to be a a great artist I Just t you you wait n n see I |