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He thought of Jerry Mathews of the old Chicago Globe days where was he now? and Philip Shotmeyer, who would be almost ideal to work under his direction, for he was a splendid letterer, and Henry Hare, still of the World, with whom he had frequently talked on the subject of ads and posters.
Like MacMonnies, George Gray Barnard began life as a jeweller's apprentice, became an expert engraver and letterer, and finally, urged by a ceaseless longing, deserted that lucrative profession for the extremely uncertain one of sculpture. A year and a half of study in Chicago brought him an order for a portrait bust of a little girl, and with the $350 he received for this, he set off for Paris.
That's quite all right," he answered effusively, and turning to the design: "The outlining of that lettering fairly beats me, you know." "Not really!... I get that from father, of course." Mr. Haim was famous in the office as a letterer. She sat idly glancing at her own design, her plump, small hands lying in the blue lap.
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