Armed with the knowledge from a lifetime of creating fine reproduction furniture in his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, his creative wheels started spinning. So I kept shaving it down till I got it the right size and it started vibrating.” Jensen knows wood. “I got it home and it didn’t have a reed, so I went to a music store and bought a clarinet reed, but it was too thick. We who stayed in the office didn ?t ta.It all began as a fluke, when Ralph Jensen bought an old duck call at a flea market for $2.50. Pedestrians were comparatively few, and every face was tense. Outside in the streets an ominous prevailed. Art Young, another reporter for The Chicago Record described Schmedtgen ?s behavior on the day he was assigned to illustrate the hanging of the convicted ?anarchists ? Next morning I saw Schmedtgen put a revolver in his hip pocket and noted that he was white and trembling. The men were eventually hung after months of high drama in the courts and newspaper reporting. Most notably was his coverage of the infamous ?frame-up ? trail of four men accused of inciting the Haymarket Square riots in Chicago on May 4, 1886. His work with the Chicago Record placed him in the thick of the big news events. When he returned to Chicago in 1886 Schmedtgen took the position as head of the art staff at the Chicago Record, which he held until 1901. He left this position to pursue work as a commercial artist in St Louis and New York. In 1883, he joined the art staff of the Old Chicago Mall newspaper. Born in Chicago on May 18, 1862, Schmedtgen studied at the Chicago Institute of Art. His escape was to get out among nature, not as a hunter but as an artist who was able to lose himself in the beauty of the wildlife he found there. Instantly the wrinkled lines disappeared from his face new force possessed him new talents seemed to shower him with glorious promises- He had found his calling in the realm of Art! ? - Fish Berg This introduction for exhibition of paintings by William Schmedtgen at Young Art Galleries, Chicago, Illinois held in 1921 depicts a man many today could identify with. And now, stirred with artistic gift, he drew a pencil and envelope from his pocket and, with marvelous accuracy, sketched a rising mallard. So close had been the duck that the very features of the bird were stamped in his mind. Standing there, non-plussed at the sight of a wild mallard in Lincoln Park, Schmedtgen caught a vision. But suddenly, arousing a fluttering in his heart, he saw a wild duck waddle from the near-by flower bed jump on the wing rise above the tree and out of sight.
The artist observed these little acts of natural life: They fascinated him.
At the water ?s edge a frog crouched silently.
Here was a beautiful spot he chose to while away a moment- beautiful in dense foliage and in the calm of the quiet waters. With uncertain step he walked on, until he found himself at the old lagoon in Lincoln Park.
It was a balmy late May afternoon a fresh wind off the lake fanned his face. Stricken wit this foreboding, and unable to paint, he donned his street attire, and wended his way north along the Lake Shore. Whether this strange sense pointed towards the portrait, or whether it favored the landscape, the artist did not know, so utterly obscure seemed this apprehension, despairingly haunting him with self dissatisfaction. For, the man- born of temperament- had sensed a strange unformulated call at the door of his heart- a haunting voice telling him that another field of art lay open before him- a field that promised fame and fortune. Thanks for looking at this fantastic painting.?ÿ Below is an excellent write-up about this artist by?ÿthe same time William Schmedtgen, cartoonist and newspaper artist, sat before his easel in the offices of the Chicago Daily News, a dejected figure in his white tunic and slippers, despair stamped upon his drawn features- discouraged. Brilliant colors with some blemishes most notably near the edges as pictured.?ÿ A unique piece of wildlife artwork. Medium: Watercolor An original watercolor painting measuring approximately 12 3/4 x 21 inches by American artist and illustrator?ÿWilliam Herman Schmedtgen?ÿ(1862 - 1936).?ÿ It is signed lower right and behind glass in an antique frame measuring approximately 14 1/4 x 23 inches.?ÿ Last origin IL.
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