The Bar Sinister ILLUSTRATIONS

The Bar Sinister

by

Richard Harding Davis

Illustrated by

E. M. Ashe

copyright 1903

bar sinister (source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bar_sinister)

Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 \u2013 April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish\u2013American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.

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E. M. Ashe, (1867 to 1942):

"WELL-KNOWN ARTIST AND FORMER DEPARTMENT HEAD DIES

EDMUND M. ASHE, former head of the department of painting and design and widely known artist and illustrator, died at his home in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, May 21, 1942. He was seventy-two years old. Professor Ashe, one of the most popular faculty members of the College of Fine Arts, came to Carnegie Tech in 1920 and remained until his retirement in 1939. Though the Ashe family originally settled in South Carolina in the seventeenth century, Professor Ashe was one of the first members of the family to be born north of the Mason and Dixon line. His birthplace was New York City. He received his early art training at the Metropolitan Museum Art School and the Art Students' League. Critics ranked him as one of the first twenty illustrators of the world. He worked regularly for Scribner's, Harper's and Century Magazine, and illustrated numerous books and articles. Upon the occasion of the visit of Prince Henry,

brother of the German Kaiser, with President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House, Professor Ashe managed to remain with the secret service men after the other newspaper men had departed. From his vantage point he sketched the foreign notables as they filed by. His sketches, blown up into illustrations, scored a beat on the other publications. His oil paintings have been exhibited in the leading American art galleries. Professor Ashe did not belong to the ivory tower school of art. To him, art had no class distinction.

He said: 'God dropped the mantle of art wherever He wanted to. It does not fall on a select few.' "

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