Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . h— and paint out in a minute the work of days. What he termed his more serious paintings hedid in Louisiana or Florida or in Massachusetts,where he had winter and summer residences. Hebecame restless if long without a brush in hishand, and when he travelled professionally hecarried an artists outfit and daily applied him-self with gleeful, almost feverish enthusiasm to monotyping. If in the course of our pur-suit we met in the same cities, as we did notinfrequently, I would generally receive some suchnote as the following: We are going to do
Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . h— and paint out in a minute the work of days. What he termed his more serious paintings hedid in Louisiana or Florida or in Massachusetts,where he had winter and summer residences. Hebecame restless if long without a brush in hishand, and when he travelled professionally hecarried an artists outfit and daily applied him-self with gleeful, almost feverish enthusiasm to monotyping. If in the course of our pur-suit we met in the same cities, as we did notinfrequently, I would generally receive some suchnote as the following: We are going to do a little monotyping to-day at 3 p. M. at the National Theatre. Per-haps youd like to see us at work. Theyll tellyou at the box office where to find us. Or: We are at it again — in the front building ofthe theatre. Come along, dont be late. Or, in imitation of the call for a rehearsal: All the artists at Three. I find many notes made of these occasions, butone, with citations from others, will serve. One afternoon I found him almost hid in a 6z. HIS RECREATIONS many-colored calico apron, working away onpieces of tin or zinc of various sizes. After theAll-Star Rivals trip he had a gigantic wash-wringer made, and it was a conspicuous articleof furniture in his parlor at the various resting-places throughout the country. It took himonly a few minutes to lay in a composition,using fingers, palette knife, rags, and often abrush — the skilful use of the knife making thebirch tree which is especially characteristic of hispaintings. His initials, J. J., were put in last,with a piece of leather. The tin containing thepainting and a piece of paper were rolled togetherthrough the wringer, the paper receiving theimpression. Unexpected effects were thus pro-duced, for the composition of the painting on thetin before the rolling gave no true idea of what itwould be once pressed onto the paper. This isone of its great attractions! This day he rolledthe tin through the wringer in conjunc
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