Show NOT successful IN HIGH A ART fence and hou home me painting suggested for youth A veil ell known art school in brooklyn has been diligently but vainly trying tor for several months to make something of 0 a certain young iran ican ano tio has ha ueler neither a genius tor for art nor a talent for or work A few days ago the head of 0 the school received a letter from the young mans rather a hard bard headed successful business man saying among other pertinent things 1 I am afraid ray my soh son ii is not cut out for a great iraln ter I 1 believe that it he had any latent ability you would have brought some ct it to the surface by this time but so far as I 1 know he has thus tar far painted only one pop par trait and one landscape the portrait I 1 hardly need tell you Is not so lifelike that it has to be shaved every ever other day though it Is 13 presumably that of a man old enough to raise a heard beard the landscape is a little better one feature in it the fence Is pretty prett good so good indeed it tempts me to think that with the right experience my son might in time become a fairly good journeyman lour neyman irence ance painter and possibly even arrive at last at the dignity ot of stan standing ding I 1 on a ladder and spreading the first cost coat on a house under these circumstances unless you have bare a department tor for instruction ta in fence and house boure painting I 1 think it would be better for my son to try some other sort of 0 school for awhile |