OCR Text |
Show WORK ON CAMPAIGN BANNERS Twelve Men Employed in Production of One of These Wonderful Objects of "Art." The services of 12 men are required to produce one of the big campaign banners. Two men prepare the strips on which the lettering is done. Two more look after the lettering of these strips, the painting of the names of clubs or associations as-sociations ordering the banners, the captions for the portraits and the offices of-fices for which the nominees are to contend. Two men work on the centerpieces, generally consisting of an eagle and a shield. One man devotes himself to the special portraits, and the others assemble the various parts, sew the strips together, and give the finishing touches to the banner. The "portrait man" scorns to do nny other work than the main portrait. The rest he calls "filling in." By working work-ing on the same faces day after day this artist becomes so skillful that he can paint the portrait of a candidate (to use the words of one painter) "in the dark" and do it as true to life as the standard of the campaign banner industry requires. |