November, i g 2 j 
House & Garden 
49 
The dining room in a remodeled 
New York home, to appear in 
December 
I N the September number, on the 
Contents Page, we tried to describe 
some of the photographers whose 
work helps make House & Garden so 
interesting a magazine. This month 
let us take a look at the artists who do 
the covers. Now artists are notori¬ 
ously temperamental people; you 
expect them all to look poetic, to be 
queerly dressed, to be as whimsical as 
a prima donna. Such are the artists of 
fiction. In reality these cover artists 
are a hard-working, business-like 
group. You’d never suspect them of 
being artists. They send their work in 
on the date when it is due. They are all 
fastidiously attired and if they have a 
whimsical temperament they must keep 
it reserved for private occasions. They 
number six, of which one is a female of 
the species, so we will start with her. 
Ethel Betts Bains. We owe a 
deep apology to Miss Bains. We can 
never associate her with the name 
Ethel. In the October issue, for which 
she made the lattice cover of asters and 
dahlias, we called her Elizabeth. We 
did it once before. Can’t say, why we 
do, only she seems an Elizabeth sort 
of person, with all the sweetness that 
an Elizabeth ought to have. Her 
original painting for the August, 1918, 
House & G.arden was exhibited, and 
received a prize award, in the Spring, 
rgig, e.xhibition of the Pennsylvania 
Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia. 
She lives in Germantown, Pa., which 
is a very nice place to live. 
Harry Richardson. In addition to 
doing an occasional cover, Mr. Rich¬ 
ardson makes practically all the black 
and white drawings for the magazine. 
A shy, slim young man with tanned 
skin and coal black hair. Has a most 
astounding habit of doing everything 
on time and doing it well, He lives in 
an old house in Chelsea Village, New 
York City, within earshot of the 
Chelsea Seminary chimes and the 
whistles of the big liners in the Hudson 
River. Being a sailor by way of 
C 0 n t e 71 t s for 
NOVEMBER, 1923 
Cover Design—By Bradley Walker Tomlin 
The House Garden Bulletin Board . 51 
A New House in an Old Style—Lewis Bowman, Architect . 52 
Why English Houses Are English—By Matlack Price .yj 
A Garden That Was Once a Barnyard—Charles Wade, Architect. . 56 
The Chances for Father . 58 
The Rock Path—Wadley Smythe .yp 
The Narrow Margin of Profit—By Ayntar Embury II, Architect . . 61 
Modern Adaptations of the Adobe . 62 
Furniture from Italy and Spam—By Margaret McElroy . 
The Wisdom of Mid-Winter Planting—By Richard H. Pratt ... 64 
Balconies—At Times A Saving Grace . 6y 
Why Not Collect Portrait China?—By Gardner Teall . 68 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors . 6g 
A Breath from the Vieux Carre—By Lyle Saxon .72 
Some Members of the Campanida Family . yij. 
Caring For Old Wall Papers—By Harold Donaldson Eberlein ■■■ 75 
The Story of Rcgejicy Furniture—By A. T. Milne . y6 
Silver in Period Designs . y8 
“One Quarter of an Inch Equals a Fool”—By Alwyn T. Covell . . 80 
Five Pages Showing Four Small Houses . 81 
The Tradition of the Kirt.ian Rug—By A. T. Wolfe . 86 
The Furniture of the Chippendales—By Mr. Mrs. G. Glen Gould 88 
The Passing of the Pantry—By Ethel R. Peyser . 8g 
Christmas Suggestions . go 
For Early Shoppers . gi 
The Gardener’s Calendar .p2 
amusement, his house is a nautical 
museum—boat models, old maps, sea 
chests, binnacles, compasses, marlin 
spikes and things like that. 
Joseph B. Platt might be called 
The Well Dressed Man of Covei 
Artists. Tall, blond, quite handsome. 
You see some of his work in Vanity 
Fair. He makes stage sets in addition 
to covers. Also he has done some 
heroic murals for the Wanamaker 
store in Philadelphia, and is at present 
engaged on some notable decorations 
in Washington. Mr. Platt painted the 
cover on the August issue. 
Lurelle Guild lives in Stamford, 
Ct., which is the gateway to a sublime 
state. His first professional efiort, 
after leaving art school, was so good 
that it became a House & Garden 
cover. Mr. Guild also does interior 
decoration settings and is quite active 
in black and white drawings. 
George Brandt. Here’s another 
blond. This one is rotund, however. 
He is a spasmodic globe-trotter. That 
is, he is Just as apt as not to decide in 
the middle of the night to go to China, 
and leave in the morning. You see 
him one day and call him up the next 
to find that he has gone to Italy for 
two or ten months. When home, he 
lives at Sparkill, N. Y., where with 
his own hands he built him a house 
which is said to be unique. The 
walls are decorated with panels 
painted by visiting artist friends. 
Some day we hope to see that house. 
Br.adley Walker Tomlin brings 
us out of the blond class into the 
brunettes. He is slight of build and, 
of all our cover artists, the most poetic 
in appearance. Syracuse, N. Y. is said 
to claim him as a native son, but for 
some time now it will have to forego 
the pleasure of his presence as he is 
abroad. The reason? He was signally 
honored by being awarded an impor¬ 
tant and much-to-be-desired traveling 
fellowship. 
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