ART IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13901, 28 November 1910, Page 6

ART IN AMERICA.

Mr Charles Nuttall, an Australian artist, who returned via Europe from the United States, by the German mail steamer Bremen last -week, said in an interview: —"There is such a big demand lor artistic -work in N«rw York that any man with original ideas and matter Ls absolutely suro of a field there. Money does not count. The man "who has succeeded in Melbourne should certainly succeed in New York, hut there is no earthly chance for the third-rater. Investigations made by tho "New York Times" show that there are one* hundred men in New York making a thousand a year and moie. The most successful artiat in the world from a money point of view is Harrison Fisher, who is reported to earn £20,000 a year. His art may be summed up as coloured prettiness.

Ho is practically the successor of Charici Dana Gibson, iW tho pretty v \ t i 7. tho main subject ot his ony.coror desisn for » g rocflivos i,W. Iho <:a»ly paper hum™ * s - l. 8 olie vi thu m°st hljihly-pAJd. m , ha!dost to jie-t. .Madiav. of tb" "\Z Yiirk Herald,- r<m* <MXViol. a w«fc fcT ■ sides enrniiu; money from other sourcSs* Tile humour must be broad. The eri' : is*, must- draw veil, bur abov u m things ho must spread himself. |v spito ol their many gwxl qualities tk Americans aio- not a humorous, Subtleties aro lost. Tho idea mWfc thrown out in hold outlines."