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Dodge is a good example of a newspaper illustrator, a man ready at a moment's notice to give to the world the benefit of a varied knowledge in the sketch line. Rapid in his work, it does not lose the necessary conscientiousness, and his work is one of the features of the great daily. Mr. Dodge's modesty does not always allow him to sign his work, and thus a great many meritorious sketches have not been credited to him by the reading public.

Charles E. Tebbs, formerly of the OVERLAND, but now of the Examiner, is a rising young illustrator, and his China

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GARRETT M'ERNERNY.

shank, while the Chinatown sketches are gems in their way.

The most promising rising young illustrator in San Francisco is Mr. J. Martinez, from whose pen I give four sketches. There is more true art and feeling in these sketches than in any published in this article.

Arthur Dodge, the capable head of the Chronicle art staff, furnishes several sketches, among them the frontispiece sketch of Kate Douglas Wiggin. Mr.

Pen sketch by James Swinnerton.

CAPTAIN DOUGLAS.

Pen sketch by Martinez.

A PEON WOMAN.

town sketches are fair samples of his work.

S. Redmond's "A Chinatown Street Scene" is an excellent example of pen reproduction from a photograph. The study in values is perfect. Mr. Redmond is now studying at the Julien studio in Paris.

Mr. Gordon Ross, who furnishes a

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There is no excuse for mentioning the women illustrators in an article that smacks ever so little of Bohemia, for the very reason that to be true to the principles of the great society, it is necessary to be a philosopher and a logical reasoner. Women reason from sympathy, not logic. Family ties are the destruction of Bohemianism. While the influences of Bohemia are such as to soften and mellow a man's nature, I have noticed that they are enervating on womankind. I know of no women Bohemians, though some of them play at Bohemianism.

Miss Wetherell, Mrs. Hudson, and Miss Partington, are womanly women, who among others have been successful as illustrators. They are well known to OVERLAND readers and their work is

meritorious that I cannot refrain from bringing them into notice once more. Grace

Sketch by L. Maynard Dixon.

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CHINATOWN.

frontispiece to this number of the OVERLAND, is a native of Scotland, and studied in Glasgow, where he learned to appreciate the qualities of the greatest man who ever painted, that is Velasquez, following in his studies the master's hand, in truth, in value and color, directness in handling, and strength of character. To Mr. Palmer, of the Examiner, credit is due for the fact that he has surrounded himself with some of the best illustrators of the West, among them, Gordon Ross. With a varied experience in London and an ambition that permits him to do but the best work, Mr. Ross's career in his chosen profession promises to be a bright

one.

Pen sketch by Chas. Tebbs.

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Hudson has a national reputation, and she is noted as one of the most painstaking students in technique. The subject reproduced is out of her ordinary line, only a sketch, but valuable in a way, as it represents her versatility. Gertrude Partington is the clever young woman who does the portrait work on the Examiner staff. Newspaper portraiture is by far the most difficult work in illustrating. It is, as a rule, unsatisfactory to writer, artist, and subject. Miss Partington has the happy knack of pleasing.

Mr. George E. Lyon graduated, if so it may be called, from the art room of the OVERLAND to the Chronicle staff. He is making an added fame for himself on that daily. His work at the Midwinter Fair last year was specially notable.

Some of the best illustrators in the

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country have gravitated from San Francisco to larger fields. It is in art as in journalism or on the stage, to be appreciated at home it is necessary to obtain the approval of a Chicago or New York public. Saalburg never knew the intrinsic value of a cleverly drawn caricature until H. H. Kohlsaat of the Chicago Inter Ocean discovered the genius hidden in his work on San Francisco weeklies.

The artist, the illustrator, if you please, is the real Bohemian; he has a twin brother, the writer or reporter on VOL. xxvi.-7.

the great daily; they both possess the ear marks of Bohemianism. Their constant contact with an ever changing audience, their portrayals by pen and pencil of humanity's failings and virtues, make of them philosophers. The illustrator is probably the keener in perception, and in each instance, unless imbued with an ambition that Bohemianism has only temporarily enslaved, his motto is, "Vive la bagatelle."

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SENATOR NOBLE MARTIN.

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