Mistakes In Painting Caples

They DREW their way from “Rags to Riches”

Now they’re helping others do the same

Albert Dorne was a kid of the New York slums who loved to draw. He never got past the seventh grade. He had to quit school at 13 to support his family. But he never gave up his dream of becoming an artist. 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. Dorne rose higher and higher until he became probably the most fabulous money maker in the history of commercial art. Gertrude Vander Pol had never drawn a thing until she enrolled. Now a fashionable New York gallery exhibits and sells her paintings. Don Graham of Detroit stepped up from railroad worker to the head of the art department of a big automobile company. He is known for his work with the school. Now he helps design the new cars. A great-grandmother in Ohio decided to study painting in her late sixties. Recently, she had a one-man show in New York. Hundreds of others have found joy and profit in drawing, painting, and illustration.

Norman Rockwell, the beloved American artist, left school at 15. Gertrude Vander Pol, Don Graham of Detroit, a great-grandmother in Ohio.

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