Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1937 — Page 7

"FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1987

Dauber Brushes Away Hope For Fine Art Success, Goes About Daily Job of Serving 36 Stores.

By JOHN MARTIN

Robert Atkins, who used to study | Michaelangelo and Rembrandt and | dreesn of a Greenwich Village | i studio, today is painting food ! prices on Indianapolis grocery windows. He's been doing it four years; and it's been nearly that long since he dreamed of the fine arts and the great names of painting. Four years ago, he succumbed to commercial sign painting — the siren, he says, that lures so many young fine arts aspirants away from the company of oils and Leonardo Da Vinci. He was in Shortridge High School four years ago. He paid his way through school by painting posters.

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| average butcher boy, or the scrolls of the worker in oils. Speed Required But the most unique thing about his job is the speed it requires. He must cover his 36 stores in a single day, working usually from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. That means about five stores an hour; and when you remember they're scattered all over town, you can see Mr. Atkins has to hurry. Each store usually needs about six signs painted, he says, and some want more. But that very speed just about kills off any posflbility of injecting a little art into his work, Mr. Atkins says. He realizes speed is necessary. But he would like to sort of revolutionize grocery store window advertising. That is, instead of just painting “Tea 8c," for instance, he might paint a picture of two good-looking girls sipping cooling iced tea, with an electric fan and maybe some

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Speed Spoils Effect But how can you do that when you have to cover 36 stores in seven hours?

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Youthful Dreams Gone, He Paints Grocery Signs

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But all the while, Mr. Atkins dreamed of real art. He wanted to go to art schools— to study, and learn portrait painting, and the rest of the artist's trade. And he won scholarships to John Herron Art Institute nearly every year, he says.

But He Got Job

Came graduation. He wanted to take an examination leading to a four-vear scholarship at John Herron, But he got the job painting “Iced Tea—=8c,” coffee, butter, pork chops. It paid good money. And | tion,” he says.

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Now and then, he gets a chance. Mr. Atkins says he has painted pictures of a leg of mutton a few times. Fixed it up to look very nice. “It's the speed they demand that spoils it,” he says. Michaelangelo took nine years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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“I might have | zet good at it, Mr. Atkins says. he took the job. | clicked.” | He's only 21, but in the four years Since then, his business has ex- | A lot of high school students are he has been painting grocery

panded, Mr. Atkins says. What} oo 4 o¢ fine arts, Mr. Atkins says. | prices, he has developed his tech-

began as something of a stop-ga ; : ; ey has grown rE tack ar But they need training—five, six, | Maue a good deal from where he

a full-time occupation. He now [10 years of it. It costs up to Staried. interesting. His job is paints signs on 36 stores twice a

$10,000 to get a good art training, | ° . ; : week and does cards between times. | hie Says. | Syme Ry But every once in a while, he | “If it weren't for that,” he be- | : : says, he remembers the high school | lieves, “an awful lot of really good |

use whiting. or other materials. dreams. artists would be developed every | Mr. Atkins uses regular opaque | year.”

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