EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 27 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

55 prize. Unless he strolls in to see how ‘My Bunkie’ looks, he won’t know about it being a prize winner until he reads the announcement in the newspapers. “We have no means of communicating with him. I have asked every artist whom I have met here today for information concerning him but they know as little as I do. All that we are sure is that his name is Charles Schreyvogel and that he has painted a great picture.” While the officials of the Academy searched the city in vain for the winner of their award, Schreyvogel faced other problems: his older brother Louis was dying. For days the other two Schreyvogel brothers, along with Lulu, watched over Louis’ bedside for any signs of his recovery. Two days after Christmas 1899, his brother Louis died. Text continues on page 58 Schreyvogel was penniless, with no prospect of selling any of his paintings; art dealers were refusing to carry any of his canvases, and his eyes were bleary from building those miniature ivories. Then, on Sunday of the last day of the century, Schreyvogel went to see one of his early benefactors, Dr. Fisher. He had barely sat down on the physician’s office, when the phone rang. Fisher listened, FACING PAGE: Standing Them Off , oil on canvas, 1901. One of the few paintings Schreyvogel did from the Indian’s perspective. BELOW: Fighting Scouts , oil on canvas, 1907. This was a subject that Schreyvogel had used earlier in Even Chances in 1902 (see page 64), by having the scouts from both sides, fighting one another.