. Portrait . The sense of proportion is generally inborn but canbe easily trained if practitioners could only be madeto take up such studies in leisure moments. It mayseem childish to divide asurface into squares andtriangles, and yet nothingwould be more conduciveto eye culture than thissimple process. How easyit is to direct the eye to-ward any well definedshape can be proven byan exceedingly simple ex-ample. Take a checker-board and make eitherone of the white fieldsdark or one of the darkfields white, and the crossshape thereby producedwill at once attract theeye. There is no escapefrom it
. Portrait . The sense of proportion is generally inborn but canbe easily trained if practitioners could only be madeto take up such studies in leisure moments. It mayseem childish to divide asurface into squares andtriangles, and yet nothingwould be more conduciveto eye culture than thissimple process. How easyit is to direct the eye to-ward any well definedshape can be proven byan exceedingly simple ex-ample. Take a checker-board and make eitherone of the white fieldsdark or one of the darkfields white, and the crossshape thereby producedwill at once attract theeye. There is no escapefrom it, the eye will beas riveted upon it, andthat despite the fact that the fields of the board re-present a vivid pattern. In the same way any de-cided shape will dominate any picture area, and canbe counter-balanced only as in Fig. i (namely, thepiano, window and framed pictures) by shapes thatdo not disturb the unity of perception, and they willbe found generally among shapes of similar form andline By S. A. Cooley Studio. Denver PORTRAIT Our Cover Portrait and the Hall of Fame THE firm of I. & M. Steinberg was established in1884, in New York. Mr. M. Steinberg died elevenyears ago, and since that time Isaac Steinberg hascontinued the business as sole proprietor. He is aGraduate Artist of the National Academy, and hasbeen for some time official photographer of the LawDepartment of the City of New York, and is a quali-fied expert in all legal cases in Supreme Court wherephotographs are exhibited. After having ^conducted two studios in Harlem fortwenty-five years Mr. Steinberg opened a modern andelaborately appointed studio at No. 505 Fifth Avenue,some time ago, where he is doing wonderful work inreproducing the old masters by means of knowledge of drawing and art has enabled him toproduce most pleasing backgrounds on asked why his work was so uniform and theaverage so good, Mr. Steinberg replied, I put myheart and soul into every negative I
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