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The Aartists’Artists’ [sic] league of Northern Indiana, of which John F. De Mann, of this city is president, will sponsor a one-man Czecho-Slovakian exhibit of oils, by an artist member, Emanuel Vaclav Nadherny, in the Robertson Tea room galleries Nov. 14–29. Mr. Nadherny is an artist of considerable note, and the story of his chosen profession is most interesting. Born in Bohemia, he made drawings of every conceivable object, at an early age, and when in 1882 some of the drawings were taken to the United States by an aunt and shown to an uncle who was publisher of a Bohemian daily paper in this country, the boy was sent for. He made the journey as an immigrant. Arriving in this country, the uncle sent him to public school, and to a Sunday art school. After a year at school, a position was secured in a lithographing establishment, where he remained six years. Having saved sufficient money to continue his art studies, he went to Paris, where in Jullian’s academy he studied under Jules Lefeore and B. Constant for four years. During this time he illustrated for Le Monde Illustri, then a leading weekly. At the end of four years, he returned to Chicago to do illustrations of the world’s fair for the Le Monde Illustri, and for Harper’s Weekly. After the close of the fair he spent two years in New York city with Harper Bros., publishers and then, returned to Paris for more study.

Again he illustrated for Le Monde Illustri, while painting and studying, and two years later returned to New York to accept a position as illustrator on the New York Herald, which position he held for 23 years. Although illustrating he kept up his painting, and exhibited for three consecutive years at the National Academy of New York.

In 1920 he returned to Czecho-Slovakia, his native land, where he made studies of its picturesque custumescustoms [sic] and costumes, during a four years’ sojourn. Prior to departure for America, Mr. Nadherny held a successful exhibit of paintings at Prague, the capital city, of Czecho-Slovakia.

Mr. Nadherny was recently identified with the Menzinger Clark studios of this city, and will make his home in South Bend. His exhibit, to hang at the Robertson Tea room gallery is brilliantly colorful, depicting the Czecho-Slovakia native costumes. There is a beautiful nude in the exhibited collection, the fine extures and flesh tints of which, prove the versatility of an artist who paints equally well the colorful pictures of his native land, a beautiful landscape, or the human figure.