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Show Advertisement They EMEM S "I&aigjs fam way ftHaesir SiaoEaes" Now they're helping others do the same By REX TAYLOR was a kid of the ALBERT DORNE to draw. He never who loved got past the seventh grade. Before he was 13, he had to quit school to support his family. But he never gave up his dream of becoming an artist. ; " "J Although he was working 12 hours a day, he began to study art at home in his spare time. Soon he discovered that people were willing to pay good money for his drawings. At 19 he was well launched in the field of commercial art. By 22 he was earning $500 a week. Dome rose higher and higher until he became probably the most in the history fabulous money-make- r of advertising art. Dome's "rags to riches" story is not unique. Norman Rockwell left school when he was 15. Stevan Dohanos, famous cover artist, drove a truck and worked in a mill before turning to art. Harold Von Schmidt was an orphan at 5. Robert Fawcett, known as the "illustrators' illustrator," left school at 14. Austin Briggs, who struggled to flat support his family in a when he first broke into art, today lives in a magnificent contemporary home, over 100 feet long. cold-wat- pipe-fitter- 's in pay. V ? i ; ,, pa S3 rj-j- . - V J, J v .. II U V ., H. l, - V. w i" W- mmmx '4 I u h - r v.- ' S7.- - NORMAN icon ROCKWELL-t- hit artitt Uft tchool at 15. b.-lov- ly Ky .d (Mevnui Amor. .1 A. It i on of th greatest mony-mak- tr hit luxurious ttudio high abovt Ntw York, Dornt can ALBERT DORNE perience. "Why can't we," asked Dome, "develop some way to bring art training this kind of no matter to anyone with talent where they live or what their personal schedules may be?" The idea met with great enthusiasm. In fact, the twelve famous artists quickly buckled down to work taking time off from their busy careers. Looking for a way to explain drawing techniques to students who would be thousands of miles away, they turned to the methods of modern visual training. What better way could you teach the art of making pictures, they reasoned, than through pictures? They made over 5.000 drawings specially for the school's magnificent home study lessons. And after they had covered the fundamentals of art. each man contributed to the course his own special "hallmark" of greatness. For example, Norman Rockwell devised a simple way to explain characterization and the secrets of color. Jon Whitcomb showed how to draw the "glamour girls" for which he is Dome showed ways to achieve animation and humor. Finally, the men spent three years working out a revolutionary, new way top-draw- er ... war-bor- n s. Uep-by-ste- p great-grandmoth- er - ....... world-famou- (Photit - :. A 2 ,v JTdT ; .- in Ohio decided to study painting in her spare time. Recently, she had her first "show" where she sold thirty water colors and five oil paintings. Don Golemba of Detroit stepped up from railroad worker to the styling department of a big automobile company on the basis of his work with the school. Now he helps design new car models. A er plan to help others: Nearly ten years ago, these men gathered in Dome's luxurious New York studio for a fateful meeting. With them were six other A1 Parker, equally famous artists Jon Whitcomb, Fred Ludekens, Ben Stahl. Peter Helck, John Atherton. Almost all had similar "rags to riches" backgrounds. Dome outlined to them a plan for sharing their good fortune with others. Dome pointed out that artists were needed all over the country. And thousands of men and women wanted very much to become artists. What these people needed most was a convenient and effective way to master the trade secrets and professional know-hothat the famous artists themselves had learned only by long, successful ex- - Gertrude Vander Poel had never drawn a thing until she enrolled in the School. Now a fashionable New 'York Gallery exhibits her paintings for sale. John Busketta is another. He was a helper with a big gas com- pany until he enrolled in the school. He still works for the same company but now he is an artist in the advertising department, at a big increase in commercial art.trom tho window of tot tho tlum Unomont whort ho onco Kvod. to correct a student's work. For each drawing the student sent in, he would receive in return a long personal letter of criticism and advice. Along with the letter, on a transparent "overlay," the instructor would actually draw, in detail, his corrections of the student's work. Thus there could be no misunl derstanding. And the student would have a permanent record to refer to as often as he liked. students quickly succeed: Thus was bom the Famous whose campus is Artists Schools the U. S. mail, whose classrooms are the students' own homes and whose faculty is the most fabulous ever assembled in the history of art teaching. The school's activities started in a converted old barn in Westport, Conn. It grew rapidly. Today it occupies its own modern building and has 5,000 active students in 32 countries. The twelve famous artists who started the school as a labor of love still own it, run it. and are fiercely proud of what it has done for its students. Don Smith is a good example. When he became a student three years ago, Don knew nothing about art. even doubted if he had talent. Today, he is an illustrator with a leading advertising agency in New Orleans. School "Where ore the famous artists of tomorrow?" Dome is not surprised at all by the success of his students. "Opportunities open to trained artists today are enormous," he says. "We get calls and letters from art over the UJS. They ask us all buyers con-tinual- ly students for practical, not geniuses who can step into time or part-tim- e jobs. well-traine- d "I'm firmly convinced." Dome goes on, "that many men and women are missing an exciting career in art im: ply because they hesitate to think that they have talent. Many of them do have talent. These are the people we want to train for success in art . . . if we can only find them." Unique art talent test: To discover peo- ple with talent worth developing, the twelve famous artists created a reTalent markable, revealing Test. Originally they charged $1 for the test. But now the school offers it free and grades it free. Men and women who reveal natural talent through the test are eligible for training by 12-pa- the school. Would you like to know if you have valuable hidden art talent? Simply mail coupon below. 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