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Show I AMERICAN SEA PAINTERS "Learn One Thing Every Day" No. 6. EMIL CARLSEN, "OPEN SEA" Copyright, 1?13. by The Associated Newspaper School, Inc. 1 II I Emll Carlsen won recognition firct W, I I a painter of still life He was born In Copenhagen. Denmark : but he came over to America when he was a very young man. settling first In Boston. He afterward went to the Pacific coast, where h taught art and had a large number of pupils His early struggles were severe indeed, in-deed, and he was put to It to make Doth ends m-et. In those old days he used to take a dead chicken and keep painting It until the other occupants of the building protected ;it the gamv odorE that came from his studio Pish also from time to time marie It awkward awk-ward for his fellow workers on account ac-count of their long stay In his workshop; work-shop; but those were days when to buy a goose or a shad was a serious consideration with Carlsen. Curiously enough, the man always had a singularly original color point of view, seeing it in a manner quite different from his fellows. Indeed, no other worker In this country possesses pos-sesses so individual an outlook on tho world of color Ho has as well a method of painting quite his own, of, handling his pigment, of blending tho tonea and obtaining sparkle and vl-brancy. vl-brancy. Few painters keep up their inter-ost inter-ost to such a high pitch. Carlsen is today a9 enthusiastic as a beginner Among tho members of the Salmagundi Salma-gundi club of New York that intimate artistic organization. Carlsen Is most popular, and they have given him many of tho best prizes the organi sation has to offer He has also raanv medals and honors elsewhere Iast season the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, awarded him one ..f ts important prizes, and purchased his painting for Its permanent per-manent collection. He is a member of the National Academy of Design, of the National Institute of Art and Letters, and of the famous Si Botolpn club of Boston Bos-ton as well as the even more famous Bohemian club of San Francisco He Is an untiring worker never happy awaj from his easel. One of his Important Im-portant canvases at tho Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York "Surf" shown him to be a rare poetical and lyrical painter of the sea. "Carlsen color said ono of the prominent Now ork painters, 'well, Carlsc-n's color col-or Is good enough to eat, which gives ono an Idea of its appetizing quality. Every day n different human Interest Inter-est story will appear In the Standard You can get a beautiful intaglio reproduction re-production of the above picture, with five others, equally attractive 7x9 12 Inches in sire, with this week's "Men tor." In "The Mentor" a well known authority covers the subject of the pictures and stories of the week Read ers of the Standard and the Mentor will know art, literature, history, ucV ence, and travel, and own exqulslts pictures On sale at Spargo's Book store. |