ART IN AMERICA.

Northern Advocate, 26 November 1910, Page 2

ART IN AMERICA.

Mr Charles Nuttall, an Australian artist, who returned via Europe from the United States by the German mail steamer Bremen recently, said in an interview: —"There is such a big demand for artistic work in New York that any man with original ideas and matter is absolutely sure of a field there. Money does not count. The | man who has succeeded in Melbourne should certainly succeed in New York, but there is no earthly chance for the third-rater. Investigations made by the "New York Times" show that there are one hundred men in New York making a thousand a year and more. The most successful artist 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. He is practically the .successor of Charles Dana Gibson, for the pretty girl is the main subject of his drawings. For one cover design for a magazine he received £300. The daily paper humorist is one of the most highly-paid and hardest to got. Mackay, of the "New York Herai.i," gets tiOOdol. a week, besides earning money from other sources. The humour must be broad. The artis: must draw well, but' above all things he must spread himself. In spite of their many good qualities, the Americans are not a humorous people. Subtleties are lost. The idea must b:- thrown out in broad outlines."